Then there were three other voters: the Alderman, who was a small grocer, and Annibal the basketmaker-these two were stalwarts-and Dewell the barber, also staunch, but a timid man.
"Chippinge Borough"
Stanley J. Weyman
In its way this bit of intelligence meant as much to the basketmaker as, "Have you heard that young Fitz-Grubber has just got the double-first at Oxford?"
"The English Gipsies and Their Language"
Charles G. Leland