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a loan, whereby the 'barrer' was replenished and the surly husband set to work; but if all efforts at peacemaking were useless, this new apostle had methods beyond the reach of the ordinary missionary -- he would (the case deserving it) drop his mild, insinuating, persuasive tones, and not only threaten to pulp the incorrigible blackguard into

Side Lights James Runciman 1871

“Larst Satiday I got three barrer-loads of gravel off my petaters,” said Mr. Tom Smallways.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

But I sold my barrer a Monday, and paid the bloomin 'tax.

The Dog's Book of Verse Various

'Is father' ad a barrer, thet were what _'is_ father did for a livelihood, an '' is mother were up afore the beaks for poppin 'shirts what she'd took in to wash.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891 Various

Tell you what – next time you wanter stop de clock we'll just wheel de barrer on to it.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

I expec's 'e was one o' these 'ere blokes wot wheeled an ice-cream barrer.

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

After some hesitation, one of them said, in a shy voice: "We're waitin 'for the barrer."

The Art of the Story-Teller 1915

"Then take care of it, Mr. Geoffrey; nurse it careful, and we'll have ye doin 'bigger things than push a peanut barrer -- peanuts!"

The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

I knowed it was you, sir; leastways I knowed your legs an 'the set o' them shoulders, but -- with a barrer!

The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

"Bli 'me! they're all rahnd us now -- like flies rahnd a fish-barrer. Dam' swine! ..."

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913