Six weeks later, Nicola — who acted as regular news-agent to the house — informed me that Grandmamma had left the whole of her fortune to Lubotshka, with, as her trustee until her majority, not Papa, but Prince Ivan Ivanovitch! ❋ Unknown (2003)
It is quite common for the Court barber to marry the King's daughter, and to succeed him as ruler; but the barber was, of course, surgeon or blood-letter as well as the principal news-agent -- the forerunner of the daily newspaper of our times. ❋ L. Higgin (N/A)
Then there is the humorous news-agent who takes charge of the smoking car between Jamaica and Oyster Bay. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
The news-agent was finally discovered in the person of an old, humpy, quiet, woman, who worked by the day in various homes and had found a place, unobserved and apparently indifferent, in the corner of the sitting-room. ❋ Unknown (1911)
And the same phrases keep recurring — the Ann Arbor news-agent uses the same expressions as the President of the Girls 'College at ❋ Unknown (1909)
The Empire, mediately or immediately, must become the universal educator, news-agent, book-distributor, civiliser-general, and vehicle of imaginative inspiration for its peoples, or else it must submit to the gravitation of its various parts to new and more invigorating associations. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Through that long distance, though I had slanted southwestward across a multitude of States and vegetations, and the Mississippi lay eleven hundred miles to my rear, the single event is my purchasing some cat's-eyes of the news-agent at Sierra Blanca. ❋ Owen Wister (1899)
And the same phrases keep recurring -- the Ann Arbor news-agent uses the same expressions as the President of the Girls 'College at ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
Six weeks later, Nicola -- who acted as regular news-agent to the house -- informed me that Grandmamma had left the whole of her fortune to ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)
But she was known to her father-confessor, to her news-agent, and later to her son, as Valerie de la Motte Scott, for though no longer entitled to bear the latter name, she had tacitly allowed it to cling to her. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)
The film opens with a fragile old lady trying to buy milk at the news-agent's. ❋ Liz Hoggard (2011)
The purchase is being made, not in some supermarket or news-agent, but actually at the console, controller in hand. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Altercations at the video shop, arguments at the news-agent, disagreements with drug-dealers, banter in the back-seat and run-ins with the local police all combine to create a moving and memorable story of youth finding its way.
a news-agent and cigar man -- you know that kind of joint, where they sell paper novels and magazines and tobacco and such -- getting Saunders 'messages. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)
"I got the news-agent to look in the 'losts' every night, and thar want nothin 'about no cow. ❋ Belle Kanaris Maniates (N/A)
And the same phrases keep recurring -- the Ann Arbor news-agent uses the same expressions as the President of the Girls 'College at Euphorbia, Maine. " ❋ Unknown (1909)