huxtering

He loathed the huxtering chivalry, the hypocritical mummery, the hero without fear and without a heart, the incarnation of cold and selfish virtue admiring itself and most patently self-satisfied.

Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

France and Spain to gain a little money by huxtering, did so in the

Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe 1879

Merchandize; albeit I always looked on mere Commerce and Barter as having something of the peddling and huxtering savour in them.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

Kelly's brother-in-law; he couldn't endure the thoughts of dividing the property with such "a low-born huxtering blackguard", as he called him over and over again.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

Moylan, and a crew of huxtering blackguards down in Dunmore.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

"Sir Walter de Montreal," said Adrian, "your frankness perhaps makes me presumptuous; but when I hear you talk, like a huxtering trader, of selling alike your friendship and your forbearance, I ask myself, 'Is this the great Knight of St. John; and have men spoken of him fairly, when they assert the sole stain on his laurels to be his avarice?"

Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Sold! bartered! the object of a contemptuous huxtering to the purchaser and the seller, sold, too, with a lie that debased her at once into an object for whom even pity was mixed with scorn!

Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Sold! bartered! the object of a contemptuous huxtering to the purchaser and the seller, sold, too, with a lie that debased her at once into an object for whom even pity was mixed with scorn!

Paul Clifford — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The question between England and Ireland assumed its real character; and although huxtering politicians have since endeavoured to set up the honour of the island for sale, they have only been able to dispose of their own characters.

The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 Michael Doheny 1834

He was born at Geneva, and went over to America early in life, possessed of nothing; there he set up a little huxtering shop -- in I forget what State -- and fell in love with one of the daughters of a poor woman at whose house he lodged, but he was so destitute that the mother refused him.

The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829