"Cheap-jack" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scarlet, and here the undertaker's mute in streaming hat-band and worn cotton gloves; here the musty scholar fumbling his faded leaves, and here the scented actor dangling his showy seals. Here the glib politician crying his legislative panaceas, and here the peripatetic Cheap-Jack holding aloft his quack cures for human ills. Here the sleek capitalist and there the sinewy laborer; here the man of science and here the shoe-back; here the poet and here the water-rate collector; here the cabinet minister and there the ballet-dancer. Here a red-nosed publican ...
— Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome
... Deacon, 'ef you've drapped your eye, an' be that fond o' the cheap-jack thing that you can't get on wi'out et, send round Deacon Spettigue to hunt, an' not a man as can't see sax inches afore hes nose. Et's out o' reas'n,' he said, 'an' ...
— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... millstone, and a very neat one; and the saint, having raised a bit of a laugh, went on like a cheap-jack: ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
