The deserted street could only see occasionally a torpidly-peddling countryman with a worn-out felt cap on his head and a basket of potatoes or turnips on his arm.
My brother-inlaw, Hugh Elsing, isn't doing any too well peddling kindling wood. Everybody except the Yankees goes out and collects his own kindling wood.
Companies would do better to " Indianise" their business by, for example, peddling wares using regional languages preferred by hundreds of millions of Indians.
Do you pretend to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town?