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  • On the way home, Lotte passed a newspaper stand, where the vendor was calling out the latest news of the war at the top of his lungs.†   (source)
  • He knows the names of every ticket taker and food vendor and they all wish him luck.†   (source)
  • Vendors manned carts of sandwiches and mineral water while grungy kids in backpacks emerged from the station rubbing their eyes, looking around as if trying to remember what city they were in now.†   (source)
  • The secretaries still talk about fashion; the director still arrives in a two-tone Delage limousine; and every noon the African vendors still wheel their sandwich carts quietly down the halls with their whispers of rye and egg, rye and egg.†   (source)
  • From a street vendor, they purchased olives after tasting several varieties and choosing their favorites.†   (source)
  • They passed other visitors as they toured the campus, groups of college students, and packs of vendors, and what appeared to be a senator and his handlers.†   (source)
  • The guy was pulled off Owen by a cotton-candy vendor—he was arrested shortly thereafter for screaming obscenities, and we heard he was sent to reform school because he turned out to be driving a stolen car.†   (source)
  • I squinted across the open field where children were playing whiffle ball, to the dark-skinned hotdog vendor sitting under his umbrella.†   (source)
  • This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!†   (source)
  • Familiar noises surround me: street vendors call out to passersby, selling boiled goose eggs and fried dough and hot dogs.†   (source)
  • They would be poking fun at the vendors with their damp, rosy faces, fanning themselves beneath the canopies of their booths.†   (source)
  • The be beggars and vendors disappeared.†   (source)
  • Even the alleyways were full to bursting with vendors and hagglers.†   (source)
  • The coffee vendor was pulling down the shutters on his cart.†   (source)
  • The newspaper vendor in Dam Square was shouting "Turkey on England's side!" and the papers were being snatched out of his hands.†   (source)
  • Jostling among mango and avocado vendors, he sells cups of diced fruit.†   (source)
  • A band is always playing and vendors set up their carts, selling fried meat on skewers and corn on the cob and apple pie floating in a puddle of ice cream, served in little paper boats.†   (source)
  • I walked into a lobby packed with members of the Midwest Payroll Vendors Association—wheelie bags parked everywhere, their owners slurping complimentary drinks in small plastic cups and networking, forced guttural laughs and pockets fished for business cards.†   (source)
  • My first thought was: My god, he's an evil ice cream vendor.†   (source)
  • Were you to walk Wondertropolis' gleaming streets, enjoying the sight of its jagged crystal buildings and shop fronts, were you to pass the stations where Wonderlanders arrived for work in sleek glass tubes hovering on cushions of air, were you to stop and purchase a tarty tart from a vendor and relish its tarty tart flavor bursting upon your tongue, you would never have known that in certain back alleys, on certain open plains, precautions were being taken: regiments of card soldiers put through military maneuvers, transports produced, weapons of attack and defense designed and tested.†   (source)
  • That night we went out to Bo Road, where street vendors sold food late into the night.†   (source)
  • In the morning he had breakfast at a local cafe and then farcast to Renaissance Vector where he worked for about five hours, evidently gathering research of some sort in the print archives, followed by a light lunch at a courtyard vendor's stand, another hour or two in the library, and then "cast home to Lusus or to some favorite eating spot on another world.†   (source)
  • Trees and gardens were replaced by alleys and cart vendors.†   (source)
  • When the Chairman had disappeared from sight, I rushed up the street to search for the shaved ice vendor.†   (source)
  • I noticed she was wearing a cheap ring, the adjustable kind that children buy at any street corner from the candy vendors.†   (source)
  • So that afternoon at the fair, I left Sonja, now seven months pregnant, and Cassie in charge of our vendor booth and strapped Colton into his car seat in my truck, and headed over to the nursing home.†   (source)
  • You could buy them, I knew, from vendors in the plaza in front of the Fore-Temple water, during pilgrimage season.†   (source)
  • I half expected to see vendors selling cinnamon water, boiled sweets, and currant cakes, and a conjure man who could juggle two balls and a stool.†   (source)
  • Yet my eye could not decipher those vendors: they wrapped their heads in bright-colored cloths as cheerful as a party, but faced the world with permanent vile frowns.†   (source)
  • 'I bought this from one of the vendors,' Claudia said.†   (source)
  • Vendors cursed as their baskets of fruit and vegetables toppled.†   (source)
  • People took Sunday outings to see the bird; souvenir vendors and strolling photographers made a fortune.†   (source)
  • He almost always ate lunch at home and had a ten-minute siesta on the terrace in the patio, hearing in his sleep the songs of the servant girls under the leaves of the mango trees, the cries of vendors on the street, the uproar of oil and motors from the bay whose exhaust fumes fluttered through the house on hot afternoons like an angel condemned to putrefaction.†   (source)
  • There was an endless stream of children with balloons, grown-ups, street life with hot dog vendors, the parade itself, an artist on a stage, and an award presentation of some sort.†   (source)
  • I saw a vendor near the park entrance on our way in.†   (source)
  • —as we pass a vendor's cart.†   (source)
  • The sandwich vendor closed down his van.†   (source)
  • "Research shows that vendor purchases are closely linked to availability," Bushey wrote.†   (source)
  • Newsstands, like small black blocks on a board, held down corners of the pavements and policemen and taxi drivers and others, harder to place, stomped their feet before them and exchanged such words as they both knew with the muffled vendor within.†   (source)
  • Vegetable vendors steered clear of Kasturba Nagar, so housewives had to trek to distant markets to buy food.†   (source)
  • But Ronnie humored her before describing the real New York: the clubs in Chelsea, the music scene in Brooklyn, and the street vendors in Chinatown, where it was possible to buy bootlegged recordings or fake Prada purses or pretty much anything else for pennies on the dollar.†   (source)
  • One vendor is selling a twenty-six-ounce jar for $3.12.†   (source)
  • Departing, he visited a movie theater, where, uncharacteristically, he chatted with an usher and a candy vendor.†   (source)
  • In the morning I woke up early and packed all my belongings into a bunch of cheap nylon bags I had bought from a street vendor a few days before.†   (source)
  • Vendors were selling paletas of frozen fruitjuices and young girls with powdered faces went hand in hand by pairs and peered across their shoulders with dark uncertain eyes.†   (source)
  • I sidestep another aggressive couscous vendor.†   (source)
  • They were students, unemployed youths, housewives, street vendors, bus drivers, health workers.†   (source)
  • Moody calmly explained that the family had purchased a sheep from a street vendor, who had slaughtered it in our honor.†   (source)
  • A vendor holds out a carved mask with snarling teeth and elephant ears.†   (source)
  • When Max met Prusias's challenge and dispatched of his foe in record time, vendors were able to charge exorbitant sums for the privilege of witnessing Bragha Rim in the arena.†   (source)
  • Taking risks together the way they did when Milkman was twelve and Guitar was a teen-ager and they swaggered, haunched, leaned, straddled, ran all over town trying to pick fights or at least scare somebody: other boys, girls, dogs, pigeons, old women, school principals, drunks, ice cream vendors, and the horses of junkyard men.†   (source)
  • I started to wave down a hot-dog vendor.†   (source)
  • Everyone carries at least a little cash—for the occasional vendor on the sidewalk, the Pepsi machine, the kid who brings the pizza.†   (source)
  • A satay vendor wheeled his cart past the car.†   (source)
  • City pedestrians handed three cents to a street news vendor, took a few steps, then turned back and bought another copy.†   (source)
  • With his younger brothers, Ahmed had returned to Peshawar, bought another load of potatoes at a discount from sympathetic vendors who had known their father, and was trying to arrange a ride back to his mother and sisters, who remained at home in mourning.†   (source)
  • In streets already festooned with Puerto Rican and a few Mexican flags, vendors were selling more flags and people were grabbing them to wave as they danced to the pulsing rhythms of salsa music blaring from shops and boom boxes.†   (source)
  • Though we tried very hard to slink by unnoticed, every one of them seemed to turn and stare as we passed: the vendors, the children, the women, the cats, the dead, milk-eyed rabbits swinging by their legs.†   (source)
  • Hazy clean sunlight of a town out of the range of the coal vendors.†   (source)
  • A small fruit wagon with an array of bright peaches and pears stood near the curb, and the vendor, a florid man with bulbous nose and bright black Italian eyes, looked at me knowingly from beneath his huge white-and-orange umbrella then over toward a crowd that had formed alongside the building across the street.†   (source)
  • He started running on the pavement, colliding with the backs and chests of strollers, shouldering a sidewalk vendor out of his way, lurching past a beggar digging into a wire trash-The beggar!†   (source)
  • Several of the vendors were frying chunks of fish with onions and beets, or selling peppery fish stew out of small iron kettles.†   (source)
  • Vendors were hawking engravings of Nathaniel Jocelyn's portrait of Joseph Cinque, as well as lithographs and sketches of the Africans and the infamous slave-ship.†   (source)
  • The meeting went on all night and we emerged at dawn and found a newspaper vendor selling the Rand Daily Mail: the Nationalists had triumphed.†   (source)
  • I see in Lunaya Pravda that Luna City Council has passed on first reading a bill to examine, license, inspect—and tax—public food vendors operating inside municipal pressure.†   (source)
  • A jingling music starts up and the air around her surges with the ricocheting voices of vendors hawking toasted corn and toy rockets.†   (source)
  • Schedule permitting, we would go every year, to meet with vendors and see what kind of new guns and equipment were on the market.†   (source)
  • Alessandro had noticed when he first arrived that the color that suffused around the openings where the light entered was a milky orange like that of an orange cream-ice that Roman vendors sold in the parks.†   (source)
  • From across the street, Chick Morrison, the Morale Conditioneron his way to a conference on the fifty-ninth floor-noted that the rare, lethargic passers-by were not taking the trouble to glance at the guards, as they did not take the trouble to glance at the soggy headlines of a pile of unsold newspapers on the stand of a ragged, shivering vendor: "John Galt Promises Prosperity."†   (source)
  • He waved at one of the hot dog vendors.†   (source)
  • When I began to hear other noises coming through the curtain—bells jingling on horse-drawn carts, the shouted voices of our bearers telling people, "Move out of the way," and the calls of street vendors beckoning customers to buy their joss sticks, candles, and other offerings that could be placed at the temple—I knew we had reached our destination.†   (source)
  • Though on a smaller scale than the great cities of the south, the bustle and shouts of Bryn Shander's open markets and plentiful street vendors reminded him of his days back in Calimport.†   (source)
  • I had the feeling for a moment I was in the carnival I had seen recently in a movie, with its pushing, shoving, noisy throng, and its shouting, arm-waving vendors and pitchmen.†   (source)
  • He was testing the chicken of a new vendor; so far it tasted the same and cost ten percent less.†   (source)
  • So anything that wasn't visually perfect got sent back to the vendors and either got credited or sold through outlets.†   (source)
  • I went to the small shop as I did each morning, Puli in eager step beside me, and the vendor hailed me as an old customer.†   (source)
  • Many of the vendors are from the Middle East and North Africa, a fact that several reporters and terrorism analysts were quick to point out during the first hours of the coverage.†   (source)
  • In Charleston, black vendors began to sell fresh tomatoes and okra in the city market.†   (source)
  • The vendor looked at me, puzzled, as though he did not wish to unload such a baggage on the generous white man.†   (source)
  • —yes, grovel through the halls of the university like some newspaper vendor, once more doing what he said just because he said I must do it.†   (source)
  • Rain like that killed the vendors' trade; it blew all around the wooden stalls and drove people to shelter under the awnings of the shops around the square.†   (source)
  • He did not treat the rich foreign merchant any different than the servant who shaved him and the street-vendor whom he let cheat him out of some small change when buying bananas.†   (source)
  • Once we stopped to extinguish a pretzel vendor's cart that had caught on fire.†   (source)
  • From a street vendor, Rasheed bought her ice cream.†   (source)
  • As they were rounding the square, a vendor came up to sell them a lottery ticket.†   (source)
  • A thicklipped man with rings, cool in white, bought Scissors cigarettes from a platform vendor.†   (source)
  • The orange vendor deflects this nonsense with a yawn.†   (source)
  • She asked the vendor how much the potatoes cost, but he did not hear her, I think he had a deaf ear.†   (source)
  • Lucky you didn't get TB like the other girl did," a melon vendor later told me.†   (source)
  • Tariq buys them spicy chapli kebabs from street vendors.†   (source)
  • it was a lot more festive than the street of vendor booths, but at least she was in the shade.†   (source)
  • Bought it for twenty euro from a Taiwanese street vendor in St. Germain des Prés.†   (source)
  • Sukkhi, the New York vendor, pushes his hot-dog cart through my head.†   (source)
  • Redcheeked street vendors, bundled like Mongolians, shouting above smoky braziers.†   (source)
  • That's the second thing: the mobs of tourists and vendors.†   (source)
  • He has no vendor's license, so he keeps moving, darting between wooden carts piled with papayas.†   (source)
  • A dark-skinned vendor pushing a cartful of empty green bottles passes me by.†   (source)
  • I passed a vendor a moment ago, selling shaved ice with syrup on it.†   (source)
  • A humpbacked street vendor came up to him.†   (source)
  • The vendors hugged themselves against the cold and cried out: "Fat here!†   (source)
  • There were big shops on both sides of the street, and vendors crowded the tiny sidewalks.†   (source)
  • She flicks her eyes toward one of the customers at a vendor.†   (source)
  • I held in my hand the change from the vendor—three coins of different sizes.†   (source)
  • She studies her handful of unfamiliar coins, then holds all of them out to the vendor.†   (source)
  • We escape the worst of the sun by hanging out near the market vendors in the poorest part of Lake.†   (source)
  • At the Kabul River, vendors moved into the parched riverbed.†   (source)
  • Then, if they had fuel for fire, the vendors began to skin and pluck and roast them.†   (source)
  • They fluted around vendors' stalls and pressed into our tea shop.†   (source)
  • We arrived as the vendors were just beginning to put their food products out.†   (source)
  • Vendors always trust a girl more, especially one like you.†   (source)
  • Some vendors were setting up to grill meat along the side of the street.†   (source)
  • The vendors sold them from carts at night.†   (source)
  • Our path suddenly opened into a wider plaza surrounded by vendors selling all kinds of stuff.†   (source)
  • He'd connect them with vendors he knew, pull favors, cut deals, cut fat.†   (source)
  • Squat, swaddled hags examined the goods in a street vendor's cart.†   (source)
  • The vendor lady looked bored as she counted the guy's change.†   (source)
  • Another vendor is selling a sixteen-ounce jar for $2.40.†   (source)
  • The vendor hurried over with a small tray of meat sticks, took the coins, and handed him the satays.†   (source)
  • He worked as a vendor and she took in mending.†   (source)
  • Other vendors hawked beautiful embroideries and jewelry crafted from turquoise.†   (source)
  • The first day of the trip, I introduced him around to all the vendors.†   (source)
  • Outside, he paused at a sidewalk vendor.†   (source)
  • Street vendors everywhere shout in English, "Couscous!†   (source)
  • I hope?" the Gasman asked as we passed a street vendor selling Polish sausage.†   (source)
  • Peanut vendor's coming through again, a coin-catching wiz about eighteen, black and rangy.†   (source)
  • The motion was now that of an ice cream vendor digging, twisting round, pulling.†   (source)
  • "All right, my man," Keez said to the hot-dog vendor, and shook his hand.†   (source)
  • My smile is as false as a street vendor's remedies.†   (source)
  • Frank borrowed a napkin and a pen from a food truck vendor.†   (source)
  • Outside the theater, the peanut vendor continues to work the crowd.†   (source)
  • Mother gives the mask back to the vendor.†   (source)
  • I doubted the vendor knew just how much enchantment was standing right in front of his merchandise.†   (source)
  • Nobody saw Cotter until the vendor appeared, black rays phasing from his hands.†   (source)
  • Not like these," he said, indicating a fruit vendor's display of withered melons.†   (source)
  • —I assure you no vendor is more important to us than Reliant.†   (source)
  • Together we manage employees' problems, placate customers, massage vendors.†   (source)
  • Nudge asked as we approached yet another street vendor.†   (source)
  • He's in charge of the vendors presenting in the tent.†   (source)
  • Their glances briefly meet as the vendor moves up the stairs.†   (source)
  • The broom vendor with his mops and dusters and stiff bristle brushes.†   (source)
  • Jackie waves down a vendor and orders beer all around.†   (source)
  • The beer vendor trips on a step, they look at Frank to see if he has noticed.†   (source)
  • Gleason is shouting down a vendor, trying to order beers.†   (source)
  • The vendor quickly put in: "No ...no, mister, he's not trying to do that.†   (source)
  • She seemed so inoffensive that the sentries let her pass without any questions as another vendor, one of the many who often arrived from the towns in the swamp.†   (source)
  • England was warm and cloudy, and each morning I walked the treelined streets near the tennis courts, passing teenagers cued up for leftover tickets and vendors selling strawberries and cream.†   (source)
  • Because of the holiday, it was a bigger market day, with a temple fair, jugglers and acrobats, vendors of lanterns and toys, and more than the usual numbers of tricksters and hucksters.†   (source)
  • On the way home, we paused often for good-humored exchanges with magazine vendors and butchers, a few cheerful words with the young policemen directing traffic.†   (source)
  • I like to think that she eventually found a husband, a tall Iranian doctor maybe, or perhaps a short Mexican businessman with a big heart, or a medium-built Irish Catholic book vendor whose family thinks she's the best thing that ever happened to their son.†   (source)
  • The lawyers showed that the man was not Mr. Jack Brown, the superintendent of the banana company, born in Prattville Alabama, but a harmless vendor of medicinal plants, born in Macondo and baptized there with the name of Dagoberto Fonseca.†   (source)
  • Outside, I backtracked to the entrance, but when I found the vendor selling cotton candy, I was distracted by a sight farther down the walkway.†   (source)
  • Businesses alter their hours (or shut down entirely), and even the banks close at noon so that the whole community can turn out for concerts (rock on Friday night, country on Saturday night), vendors, and the spinning rides and lights of a huge carnival midway.†   (source)
  • was a jumble of modernity; a myriad of women showing their bare calves, and men in vests and pleated pants; an uproar of workers drilling holes in the pavement, knocking down trees to make room for telephone poles, knocking down telephone poles to make room for buildings, knocking down buildings to plant trees; a blockade of itinerant vendors hawking the wonders of this grindstone, that toasted peanut, this little doll that dances by itself without a single wire or thread, look for yourself, run your hand over it; a whirlwind of garbage dumps, food stands, factories, cars hurtling into carriages and sweat-drawn trolleys, as they called the old horses that hauled the municipa†   (source)
  • I bought a bowl of hot, milky porridge from a vendor along the side of the walkway, and continued along where the road curved around the hospital and off toward the center of the town.†   (source)
  • I watch the kids shooting marbles on sidewalks that melt into muddy gutters, the old women sitting in doorways, the street vendors in dhotis squatting on their mats, scraping coconuts, hawking marigold garlands.†   (source)
  • One winter night while the soup was boiling in the fireplace, he missed the heat of the back of his store, the buzzing of the sun on the dusty almond trees, the whistle of the train during the lethargy of siesta time, just as in Macondo he had missed the winter soup in the fireplace, the cries of the coffee vendor, and the fleeting larks of springtime.†   (source)
  • The reporter seemed to be having a lot more fun than she was, gesturing wildly at passing food vendors and jugglers, contortionists on miniature parade floats and the tail end of a passing lucky dragon kite.†   (source)
  • An ice cream vendor near La Arrocera adds, "If you turn them in, they get out, and they come after you.†   (source)
  • We were watched around the clock, our visits supervised, even food vendors had their baskets checked at the gate.†   (source)
  • Everyone was laughing—the kids, a street vendor, a cook in a hair net sitting on a stoop talking on a cell phone.†   (source)
  • Vendors in the bazaar, sitting behind pyramids of oiled, shining vegetables, grew to recognize him and would attend to him amidst the clamoring of their other customers.†   (source)
  • Every so often, I would toss out some piddly story about the caviar vendors beside the Caspian Sea or the smell of nasturtiums in my aunt Sedigeh's garden, and the Frenchman went gaga.†   (source)
  • Outside, the city was just now winding down—street vendors wheeling carts of candied amandes, waiters carrying bags of garbage to the curb, a pair of late night lovers cuddling to stay warm in a breeze scented with jasmine blossom.†   (source)
  • Overnight the lanes grew crowded with vendors of every delicious kind of thing and fortune-tellers with only the best news.†   (source)
  • I would take a walk in the Karteh Parwan section—where the melon vendors used to hang out in the old days, you remember that spot?†   (source)
  • As we pressed through the crowds, the vendors tried to sell us three camel rides, a dozen T-shirts, more amulets than Walt was wearing (Special price!†   (source)
  • The women liked having me with them because I could add fast in my head, and because I always caught the lime and chillies vendor when he cheated them.†   (source)
  • From a toy kiosk, between a poosteen coat vendor and a fake-flower stand, Zalmai picked out a rubber basketball with yellow and blue swirls.†   (source)
  • Bearded vendors draped in thin blankets sold animal-skin lampshades, carpets, embroidered shawls, and copper goods from rows of small, tightly jammed stalls.†   (source)
  • The doors had not two, but four shutters of paneled teak so that in the old days, ladies could keep the bottom half closed, lean their elbows on the ledge and bargain with visiting vendors without betraying themselves below the waist.†   (source)
  • All kinds of vendors from down below sneaked past the barricades and brought their goods up the mountain so that people from the hill towns could spend their money before they were killed.†   (source)
  • Often, he had to make do with looking out the window, at the birds perched on the trees, the sky, the clouds, and listen to the children playing on the street, the fruit vendors pulling their donkeys, chanting, Cherries!†   (source)
  • The pyramids are no different, except the crowds are bigger and the vendors are really, really pushy.†   (source)
  • We loaded the supplies in plastic bags, and six of us went to the nearest market, where we sold them to a vendor.†   (source)
  • The carcasses were laid out, blackened and crusty and minus their heads, and the vendors' cries went out and the prices went up.†   (source)
  • As I approached Astor Place—African drum players, drunks arguing, clouds of incense from a street vendor —I felt my spirits lifting.†   (source)
  • The city was bursting with sounds; the shouts of vendors rang in my ears mingled with the blare of Hindi music, the sputtering of rickshaws, and the jingling bells of horse-drawn carts.†   (source)
  • In time there were no more birds and dogs along the Gesia Street market, but the vendors never seemed to run out of squirrel.†   (source)
  • The vendor ladies squatted, scowling, resting their chins on their crossed arms, behind fortresses of stacked kola nuts, bundles of fragrant sticks, piles of charcoal, salvaged bottles and cans, or displays of dried animal parts.†   (source)
  • Not like the men in shops along Broadway, the doormen and the street vendors and the repairmen who knew I was a day mummy and fundamentally helpless, or at least available.†   (source)
  • From a street vendor, Tariq bought them each a plate of boiled beans topped with thick cilantro chutney.†   (source)
  • She's nearsighted, but somehow she's able to pick out the differences between the fruit vendors and the vegetable vendors, the faces of the various merchants, who has money and who doesn't.†   (source)
  • Walking back to Central Park South, with Popper, I bought three hot dogs from a vendor who was just shutting up for the day (one for Popper, two for me) and while we ate, on an out-of-the-way bench inside the Scholars' Gate, considered my options.†   (source)
  • It's always the same, with vendors selling cheap T-shirts and trinkets, and hordes of sweating tourists complaining and shuffling around trying to take pictures.†   (source)
  • See if you can find the noodle vendor.†   (source)
  • I saw sweetshops and carpet vendors, kabob stalls, kids with dirt-caked hands selling cigarettes, tiny restaurants—maps of Afghanistan painted on their windows—all interlaced with backstreet aid agencies.†   (source)
  • Drowning out all other noise is the music that blares from many sidewalk shops of the cassette vendors.†   (source)
  • Sleepy-eyed merchants are unlocking store gates that had been rolled down for the night-Vendors sit behind towers of chewing gum and cigarette packs.†   (source)
  • Just before dusk, the best hour for marketing, since vegetable vendors discounted what they hadn't sold and what they couldn't keep overnight, I'd go with neighborhood women and get my mother the best bargains.†   (source)
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