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- verb Present participle of
huxter .
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Examples
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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.
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France and Spain to gain a little money by huxtering, did so in the
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Merchandize; albeit I always looked on mere Commerce and Barter as having something of the peddling and huxtering savour in them.
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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.
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Moylan, and a crew of huxtering blackguards down in Dunmore.
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"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?"
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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)
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