fruit-carts

Updated: May 26, 2025

It is difficult to write of the relation of the older and most foreign-looking immigrants to the children of other people the Italians whose fruit-carts are upset simply because they are "dagoes," or the Russian peddlers who are stoned and sometimes badly injured because it has become a code of honor in a gang of boys to thus express their derision.

Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes

And no wonder, for the choristers in the operas walk behind fruit-carts all day long, and often call out their wares in the musical tones learnt while following their more select profession as public singers. Some, of course, cannot read a note of music, and the melodies they have to sing have to be drummed, or rather trumpeted, into their ears.

P. M. Hough - Dutch Life in Town and Country