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Then they began to urge the peasant: Take them, take them to Pettifoggers Street!

From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

"What is going on now in Pettifoggers Street, your Excellency?" one General asked the other.

From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The peasant, it appeared, even knew all about Pettifoggers Street; had been there; his mouth had watered at it, but he had not had a taste of it!

From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

His coming again to London; falling among Pettifoggers, and Solicitors; and the Diſputes among his Friends, whether he ſhould be a Prieſt, a Lawyer, or a Phyſician.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

And to the same Purpose, not only almost all the Francogallican Historians, but even all the Lawyers and Pettifoggers have wrote to this Day, as Paponius testifies, Arrest. lib.

From Franco-Gallia Or, An Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and Most Other Parts of Europe, Before the Loss of Their Liberties by Hotman, François