But some could not see the coffee-truck goddess in this bent woman at shadow's edge, clutching the handle of the shopping cart she used to hold wares and provide balance, wearing a baseball cap, layers of sweaters, and men's pants, navy blue, into which she had sewn deep, leg-long pockets to keep safe her hard-earned rolls of bills.
"On a good day, there are about 40 people selling here," he said from behind a fold-out tray that held his wares, a small herd of stuffed pigs.
This Saronic Island is known for its secluded beaches, traditional boat-building culture, and the marinas that hold the local wares.
He said that he usually held out his wares to customers, but in that kind of weather it didn't pay.
The last chapter presents rows of blankets set out on sidewalks, holding analogue secondhand wares for sale (phones, shoes, calculators, typewriters), weary-looking survivors of the relentless circulation of goods.
Holding aloft his wares, he dashes toward a black BMW and in his cracking preteen voice addresses the woman inside: " 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?" Mumbai once prided itself on its literary culture — libraries, journals and poetry societies flourished; foreign books, though hard to find and prohibitively expensive, were all the rage.
Holding aloft his wares, he dashes toward a black BMW and in his cracking preteen voice addresses the woman inside: " 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?" Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates China is making a $250 billion-a-year investment in what economists call human capital.
In the south of Zambia spindly men, silhouetted against the fierce light of the Zambezi valley, held up their wares for sale -- a tortoise in one hand, a chunk of crystalline rock the color of amethyst in the other -- hoping to earn a few dollars.
They prefer functional wares and hold them in higher esteem than we do.
The wreck held three main types of "wares" in the form of bowls: Changsha ware, the majority of the 60,000 items, were originally packed in either straw cylinders or "Dusun" storage jars; White-ware, manufactured in the Ding kilns and including the earliest known intact underglaze blue and white dishes; and Yue ware from Zhejiang Province.
And in a third, a sort of still life, a hen nestles compatibly on the arm of a female flower vendor holding a bowl of her wares.
