market-gardener

And of these residents the family whose term comprised the story I wish to relate was that of Mr. Jacob Paddock the market-gardener, who dwelt there for some years with his wife and grown-up daughter.

A Changed Man 2006

The produce of the market-gardener decorated the church here and there; and the impresario of the establishment, having picked up a Flemish painted window from old Moss in Wardour Street, had placed it in his chapel.

The Newcomes 2006

Dukes are as common as dogs in the streets, and a marquis thinks no more of himself than a market-gardener.

Phineas Redux 2004

I learned from him that he was a market-gardener living at

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

I shook hands with the kind six-mile-an-hour market-gardener, and going into the inn found my wife and daughter, who rejoiced to see me.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Even the farmer, thinking of wheat growing, and the market-gardener, thinking of his turnips, are apt to entertain a similar belief.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

‘And by what sign didst thou know that we would beg from thee, O Mali?’ said Kim tartly, using the name that a market-gardener least likes.

Kim 2003

He was a market-gardener, Arain by caste, growing vegetables and flowers for

Kim 2003

A horse, for no gentleman walked where he could ride, and perhaps his father-in-law, who had mightily disapproved of Betty marrying a Marine, might lend some money to make the Marine into a market-gardener.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

An enterprising English market-gardener is this year growing vegetables and fruit for the London market, expecting to have green peas in Covent

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory