apple-woman

And, youngster, do you think Matthew Foxley, who has been one of the quorum for these twenty years, is to be come over with such trash as would hardly cheat an apple-woman?

Redgauntlet 2008

What book so delighted him, and blinded him to all the rest of the world, so that he did not care to see the apple-woman with her fruit, or (more tempting still to sons of Eve) the pretty girls with their apple cheeks, who laughed and prattled round the fountain!

Roundabout Papers 2006

A few minutes after George arrived, Theo would come downstairs with a fluttering heart, may be, and a sweet nosegay in her cheeks, just culled, as it were, fresh in his honour; and I suppose she must have been constantly at that window which commanded the street, and whence she could espy his generosity to the sweep, or his purchases from the apple-woman.

The Virginians 2006

Pinkerton, to whom he had been presented by his mamma, and actually proposed something like marriage in an intercepted note, which the one-eyed apple-woman was charged to deliver.

Vanity Fair 2006

I went deep into the booth, and the apple-woman, bringing her chair round, almost confronted me.

Lavengro 2004

The apple-woman shook more violently than before, bent herself down, and drew her cloak more closely about her than before.

Lavengro 2004

Then he was taken in hand by two constables and pushed back through the doorway — to the great detriment of the apple-woman who sat there in those days.

Lady Anna 2004

I mentioned London Bridge and the old apple-woman.

Lavengro 2004

Bridge, by the stall of the old apple-woman, with the cap and cloak; but, instead of these, he now wore a hat and greatcoat.

Lavengro 2004

I commenced reading the book, and was soon engrossed by it; hours passed away, once or twice I lifted up my eyes, the apple-woman was still confronting me: at last my eyes began to ache, whereupon I returned the book to the apple-woman, and, giving her another tanner, walked away.

Lavengro 2004