A lame one in his lofty tricks; he sleeps a-horseback, like a poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [The White Devil] Reference
I have never been a farrier, though Joliet himself made me perforce a poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
Go to doss with the poulterer, you understand, and shake up with the milch-mand. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
The person implicated in the charge against Hoyle seems to have been a poulterer. cf. From Wordnik.com. [A Memoir of Mrs. Behn] Reference
Munden was the son of a poulterer in Brooke's Market, Holborn, where he was born in the year 1758. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832] Reference
Also foie de volaille = chicken liver le volailler la volaillère = dealer in poultry and poultry products, poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [Words in a French Life] Reference
We have the opposite process in poulterer for Pointer. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Bagshaw, the Bond Street poulterer, had it for years. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Philologist, son of a poulterer called Horne, added the name of. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
But it's no good going into Rowington and trying to sell them to a poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Terrible Twins] Reference
For the lengthened form poulterer, cf. fruiterer for fruiter, and see Chapter XV. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
"I shall have to pay the poulterer for them, if he doesn't catch them," said Jude. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
The poulterer stepped to the edge of the curb and apostrophised the universe generally. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green] Reference
Riddell came out of the ordeal very much as a duck comes out of the hands of the poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Willoughby Captains] Reference
Do not forget the three tickets for us for your lecture, and the ticket for Baily, the poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
The purchaser was a neighbouring poulterer, and they were unquestionably doomed to die before the next market day. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
"I spoke to the poulterer on the subject, sir: he constantly brings me down fowls, and he tells me that they kill each other fighting.". From Wordnik.com. [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference
So far, we might be forgiven for writing off the Great Leader as a bit of a windbag and perhaps nothing more than an armchair poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Croydonian] Reference
For us to be wondering why he doesn't come around is as though a coop full of turkeys went wondering why the poulterer didn't come around. From Wordnik.com. [The President A novel] Reference
"The idea occurred to me to sell it to a poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green] Reference
A poulterer at Brighton, who took all we could catch in a season at. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
"I was to get the price of it for myself, and so when Christmas drew near I went to old MacFarlane, the poulterer in Skeighan. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
Bustard, the poulterer, ceased to come. From Wordnik.com. [Mens Wives] Reference
Send the poulterer here; I must inquire about it. ". From Wordnik.com. [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference
“Commend me to the nurseryman and the poulterer.”. From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
Hig-ler, a travelling poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition] Reference
There are two grocers and a poulterer. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920] Reference
Doves, such as heaven's poulterer gets. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
Hoyle seems to have been a poulterer, cf. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I] Reference
There is also this week dead a poulterer, in. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 19: November/December 1662] Reference
"Commend me to the nurseryman and the poulterer.". From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
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