What is "hawked"

Usage examples of "hawked".

Somewhere toward the east, nuzzled by the Suwannee River, was Gilchrist County, which in scraggly ten-acre parcels Eugenie Fonda and Boyd Shreave had hawked over the phone to all those innocent saps.

They wore layer upon layer of gauzy, brilliant cloth and hawked their wares, sweatless, in the glare of the midday suns.

To either side of the road, a thin colonnade of mongers hawked their wares, hoping to profit from vagrant hungers.

His magic paper, his fifteen-thousand-dollar paper, was being hawked by newsies on every corner.

Turp hawked, when Prew called him over to one side and hit him up for twenty.

From stalls at the bronze feet of the Anselmian statues of Reason and Imagination flanking the steps, people hawked nuts and drinks and even green ribbons in honor of the Humanities.

Bruno passed through the fire and Bobrowski the robber with his crony Materna, with whom it all began, set fires in houses that had been previously notched -- sunsets, sunsets -- Napoleon before and after: then the city was ingeniously besieged, for several times they tried out Congreve rockets, with varying success: but in the city and on the walls, on Wolf, Bear, and Bay Horse Bastions, on Renegade, Maidenhole, and Rabbit Bastions, the French under Rapp coughed, the Poles under their prince Radziwil spat, the corps of the one-armed Capitaine de Chambure hawked.

A knot of children, probably on one of the last school outings of the year, were feeding them from bags of breadcrumbs hawked precisely for that purpose, like peanuts at the zoo.

On the corner of Yedo-cho and Ni-cho-me streets, greengrocers and fishmongers hawked their wares.

The crowds that filled the pit and galleries early, to secure places, amused themselves variously before the performance began: they drank ale, smoked, fought for apples, cracked nuts, chaffed the boxes, and a few read the cheap publications of the day that were hawked in the theatre.

The sound of the podiatric impact had silenced a major-sport crowd, and a retired USMC flier who always came with petroleum-jelly samples he hawked to the knuckle-chapped crowds in the Nickerson stands told his cronies in a Brookline watering hole after the game that this Incandenza kid's first public punt had sounded just the way Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas had sounded, the exaggerated WHUMP of incendiary tonnage, way larger than life.

He took some Wilson's snuff, then hawked, carked and shivered with the dour pleasure of it.

It was a chaotic scene: a rusted and clanging gate, charred and corroded barrack houses, dirt, sand, flies amid piles of mangoes hawked by a small crowd of women, and lots of teenage boys armed with wads of cedis, the Ghanaian currency, which they were selling in exchange for CFA francs.

The disingenuity of the “traditional” being hawked in the Portaree Inn—the Inn and the Out of it, Mick still called it—and the ingenuity of Tidy Howard, by now a figure of stature in more ways than one, had impressed Minogue.

Even the fleks of MF-band albums the crew always hawked around ports to the bootleg distributors were fetching minimal prices.