diddler

Example Sentences

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No sofa has been sold—no money received—except by the diddler, who played shop-keeper for the nonce.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

With a little more prudence Dick Turpin would have made a good diddler; with a trifle less blarney, Daniel O'Connell; with a pound or two more brains Charles the Twelfth.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

The note arriving at maturity, the diddler, with the diddler's dog, calls upon the friend, and the promise to pay is made the topic of discussion.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

The friend produces it from his escritoire, and is in the act of reaching it to the diddler, when up jumps the diddler's dog and devours it forthwith.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

But, of course, the chances are five or six to one, that the finder will repair to the address given by the diddler, rather than to that pointed out by the rightful proprietor.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan