Treasure Island vocabulary

All the time he lived with us the captain made no change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings from a hawker.

Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)

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The fried plantain hawker tried to persuade Ifemelu to buy fried sweet potatoes as well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah, p.547 (2013)

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whether you would ha' been over-ready to give me work yourselves,—a bit of a poacher, a bit of a laborer, a bit of a wagoner, a bit of a haymaker, a bit of a hawker, a bit of most things that don't pay and lead to trouble, I got to be a man.