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Logan [A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs, 1869 -- T], p. 82, from a broadside of about 1760.
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These lines are of little interest apart from the fact of being the earliest known example of the Canting speech or Pedlar's French in
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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Each of these stories has the sharp impact of an emotional crisis -- the compressed quality of one of Margaret Pedlar's widely read novels.
Glory of Youth Temple Bailey 1912
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He clapped the boy on the back, and after referring to a clasp-knive which he remembered to have left on the grass opposite the Pedlar's Rest, announced his intention of going back for it.
Salthaven 1903
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Pedlar's Rest, began to hatch schemes of deliverance.
Salthaven 1903
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Pedlar's Prophecy_, were either Burbage's or Admiral's properties.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Pedlar's Prophecy_, _The Three Ladies of London_, and _The Three Lords and Three Ladies_, and certain parallels between the two latter and
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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He handled slang as one who knew its limits and possibilities, employing it not for the sake of eccentricity, but to give the proper colour and sparkle to his page; indeed, his intimate acquaintance with the vagabonds of speech enabled him to compile a dictionary of Pedlar's French, which has been pilfered by a whole battalion of imitators.
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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Brodie, the amateur, courted the society of all cross coves, and would rather express himself in Pedlar's French than in his choicest Scots.
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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Brodie, the amateur, courted the society of all cross coves, and would rather express himself in Pedlar's French than in his choicest Scots.
A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894
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