Still, he was in a low way-seemed a pedlar or a hawker, selling out of a pannier on the Rialto-I mean the Cornmarket, sir-not even a hag by his side, only a great dog-French.
"What Will He Do With It, Book 10."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He was not only willing, then- he was eager to depart, and either regained or assumed much of his old cheerfulness in settling with his hostess, and parting with Merle, on whom he forced his latest savings and the tasteful contents of his pannier.
"What Will He Do With It, Book 10."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The good man of the house perceiving her, said: O good and profitable pullet that feedest us every day with thy fruit, thou seemest as though thou wouldest give us some pittance for our dinner: Ho boy put the pannier in the corner that the Hen may lay.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius