book-canvasser

My mother, as well as an ogress, was a Nevada book-canvasser.

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My mother, as well as an ogress, was a Nevada book-canvasser.

The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

It then dawned on the sergeant that this was no mere case of the horrors -- he was dealing with a book-canvasser.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

Th 'man at th' traps sprung a bell boy whom th 'Colonel on'y winged, thus goin' back wan, but his second barrel brought down a book-canvasser fr'm New York, an 'this bein' a Jew man sint him ahead three.

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

My mother, as well as an ogress, was a Nevada book-canvasser.

The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896

But Allida had gone out, too; so she came back to the sitting-room, and longed for the stir and bustle and frequent faces of the tavern, and welcomed a book-canvasser presently as if she had been a dear friend.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887

This plan operates directly against the principle that the sale of a book should be proportioned to its merits, and makes these quite subordinate to the arts of importunity and trickery, which Mr. Perkins has so well described in "Scrope," and of which almost every reader has had personal experience, as characteristic of the book-canvasser.

Subscription Books 1874

"---- most magnificent volume ever published, jewelled in fourteen holes, working on a ruby roller, and in a glass case," said the book-canvasser.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902