stallkeepers

Alight breeze brought a hint of incense from the Temple, which joined harmoniously with the fresh flowers some of the stallkeepers used as decoration.

Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

The street took a sharp turn and then ended in a flight of steps which led down into a sunken alley where a few stallkeepers were selling tired-looking vegetables.

Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

There may be a side-walk, but then, the shopkeepers have taken that to spread out their wares, or the stallkeepers have set up their little booths there.

Peeps at Many Lands: Japan John Finnemore

There were men, of course, in the crowd, among the stallkeepers -- hundreds.

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

Next she began to intrigue and scheme with such success that she was engaged by one of the stallkeepers.

The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

By stopping to talk to the girl he only drew upon himself still coarser jeers from the other stallkeepers.

The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

Many of the stallkeepers have in despair deserted the toy business, and gone in for comforters, kepis, and list soles.

Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871

All around her, the storerooms, the small cabins where the stallkeepers keep their live stock, formed regular streets, intersecting each other at right angles.

The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

The fish-wives liked Florent on account of his gentleness, and for some time they defended him; but, influenced by the stallkeepers of the butter and fruit pavilions, they at last gave way.

The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

When she was unable, during her afternoon perambulations, to wheedle stallkeepers into filling her bag for her, she was reduced to dining off the merest scraps.

The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871