water-seller

Gaius and Cornelius had said their water-seller told them she had worked on the Hill of Cronus.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

We agreed Cleonymus would sit down here and wait for me, while I carried on in my search for the boys 'water-seller, then I would pick him up on my way down.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

I even wondered if this woman was herself the so-called old water-seller.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

Hogan dodged round a water-seller who was waving his leather spout hoping the Major would buy.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

As neither tasted of both, they had, like the water-seller, no opinion as to the merits of the rival wells.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

You meet the water-seller passing down the street with his barrel cart, drawn by three or four horses with tinkling bells, dispensing water to customers at five cents a pail.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray

Here a water-seller, laden with his goatskin vessel, tinkled his little bell; there an orange-hawker, balancing a basket of the golden fruit upon his ragged turban, bawled his wares.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

They conjure up a vision in my mind of an absent-minded water-seller, bearing his precious jars and crying his wares knee-deep, and going deeper into a rising stream.

Mankind in the Making 1906

They conjure up a vision in my mind of an absent-minded water-seller, bearing his precious jars and crying his wares knee-deep, and going deeper into a rising stream.

Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

Yassin the Jew could not find a tenant because the water-seller had smallpox, so he gave it to the Inglezi for six pesetas a month.

The Black Edgar Wallace 1903