Mall to come over and speak to poor Brown, the young penny-a-liner. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Sir Marmaduke, ‘if I were to go and leave my girl as it were in the hands of a penny-a-liner.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
But this “penny-a-liner,” as the Doctor indignantly called him, had attacked him in his tenderest point. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Sir Marmaduke, in speaking of Stanbury after this, would constantly call him a penny-a-liner, thinking that the contamination of the penny communicated itself to all transactions of the Daily Record. ❋ Unknown (2004)
These good things would have been accepted had it not been for this rascal of a penny-a-liner, this friend of that other rascal Trevelyan, who had come in the way of their family to destroy the happiness of them all! ❋ Unknown (2004)
From the penny-a-liner to the artist and thinker, the demand for their labour continually increases. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“It has pleased the average penny-a-liner”: EWR, unpublished biographical sketch of WAR. ❋ David McCullough (1972)
"Clear enough, I think," said Van, when I raised my eyes from the protracted periods of the penny-a-liner. ❋ Various (N/A)
Not to be on the "Index" would call a blush to the cheek of the most unambitious of authors, -- would carry a presumption of worthlessness with it from which even the penny-a-liner would shrink with dismay, -- and to the poet and historian would sound like a sentence of perpetual exclusion from all those cherished hopes which irradiate with heavenly light the steep and thorny paths of intellectual renown. ❋ Various (N/A)
We cannot use the usual stock phrase of the penny-a-liner and say to 'trip it on the light fantastic toe,' for in several instances a pair of stalwart navvies might be seen in anything but dancing pumps kicking out most gloriously. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
But the American penny-a-liner, our readers know, does the thing on the vast scale of his country. ❋ Various (N/A)
Though we have our princes in every branch of literature, who are the result of and an honor to our civilization, yet for their own results in moulding the tastes, the habits, and the intellects of the common people, in contributing to their advancement, they fall far below the efforts of the veriest penny-a-liner. ❋ Various (N/A)
Rowlands at his best was but an indifferent poet, -- hardly more than a penny-a-liner. ❋ Samuel Rowlands (N/A)
Although this document, evidently a clumsy forgery, bears traces of having been composed apparently by a native penny-a-liner for the foreign newspaper, yet it apparently expresses the opinion of a large class of rulers and people, and serves to exhibit some of the features of the varied opposition which the tycoon has to encounter. ❋ Various (N/A)
Now a penny-a-liner is indebted to a single phrase which furnishes his column; a clergyman near ❋ Various (N/A)
In fact no phase of the Negro's life fails of discussion at the hands of the most flippant penny-a-liner as well as the gravest thinker. ❋ Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp (N/A)
Could any Sultan, or even the "Oriental Despot" of a radical penny-a-liner, be implored in more abject terms? ❋ Various (N/A)
_ Hotel elegance, railway manners, and penny-a-liner sentiment are alike contemptible. ❋ Various (N/A)
Their portraits never find their way into the illustrated papers, and no penny-a-liner ventures to make them the subject of a biographical sketch: indeed, any one rash enough to seek to tread upon this forbidden ground would find himself met at the threshold by a dignified but very decided refusal of all information and material necessary to his undertaking. ❋ Various (N/A)
He passed it over as casually as he did the markets, or a grudging, conservative item from the police courts, all that the blue pencil had left of the hopeful efforts of some poor penny-a-liner. ❋ Frederic S. Isham (N/A)
