Trusser

Michael Henchard, a hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and sells his wife and child for five guineas to a sailor, Newson. ❋ Unknown (1999)

At the far end of the thresher, away from the traction-engine, the fumbling lips of the shakers, mouthing in and out beneath their little penthouse, pushed out the beaten straw into the maw of an automatic trusser, which Ishmael had only bought that year and which he was watching eagerly. ❋ F. Tennyson Jesse (N/A)

At first she could not find them, and she was informed that most of them had gone to what they called a private little jig at the house of a hay-trusser and peat-dealer who had transactions with their farm. ❋ Unknown (1891)

On reaching it, she turned, and pulling off her wedding-ring, flung it across the booth in the hay-trusser's face. ❋ Unknown (1887)

He was the only positive spectator of the hay-trusser's exit from the Weydon Fair-field. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Donald brought his wife forward without hesitation, it being obvious that he had no suspicion whatever of any antecedents in common between her and the now journeyman hay-trusser. ❋ Unknown (1887)

"Very well, she shall have the child, and the bargain's complete," said the trusser. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The trusser and his family proceeded on their way, and soon entered the Fair-field, which showed standing-places and pens where many hundreds of horses and sheep had been exhibited and sold in the forenoon, but were now in great part taken away. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The hay-trusser deposited his basket by the font, went up the nave till he reached the altar-rails, and opening the gate entered the sacrarium, where he seemed to feel a sense of the strangeness for a moment; then he knelt upon the footpace. ❋ Unknown (1887)

"I did for myself that way thoroughly," said the trusser with a contemplative bitterness that was well-night resentful. ❋ Unknown (1887)

"Mark me -- I'll not go after her!" said the trusser, returning doggedly to his seat. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The having nothing to do made him more dreary than any other circumstance; and one day, with better views of Farfrae than he had held for some time, and a sense that honest work was not a thing to be ashamed of, he stoically went down to Farfrae's yard and asked to be taken on as a journeyman hay-trusser. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The hay-trusser, which he obviously was, nodded with some superciliousness. ❋ Unknown (1887)

When he had said it and kissed the big book, the hay-trusser arose, and seemed relieved at having made a start in a new direction. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Now that Henchard's whole career was pictured distinctly to his neighbours, and they could see how admirably he had used his one talent of energy to create a position of affluence out of absolutely nothing -- which was really all he could show when he came to the town as a journeyman hay-trusser, with his wimble and knife in his basket -- they wondered and regretted his fall. ❋ Unknown (1887)

At length he obtained employment at his own occupation of hay-trusser, work of that sort being in demand at this autumn time. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Have [you seen] my trusser. [Yes], they are [on the floor]. ❋ Santa Lucia (2022)