costermongering

We accuse scavengers, brickmakers, and gentlemen who devote their energies to the costermongering line, with obtaining money once a – year, under false pretences.

Sketches by Boz 2007

I wish you joy of your lessons; but if you do, you have made a gentleman of him: -- he won't like to go back to his costermongering. '

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

We accuse scavengers, brickmakers, and gentlemen who devote their energies to the costermongering line, with obtaining money once a-year, under false pretences.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841