I am suggesting that you should adopt it, not because I tell you to, but because you yourself have taken it and tested it, precisely as you would test any other of the practical affairs of your life-potatoes as an article of diet, or some particular sack of potatoes that a peddler was trying to sell to you.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
While in Egypt, the author saw an insignificant article purchased of a peddler by an English lady, which was said to have been exhumed at ancient Thebes, and for which she paid five pounds sterling.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
He had come to the place fourteen years before, with his father, a book-peddler who fell ill on his way through and who-not of you be it said!
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz