But it's worth pointing out: What sometimes passes for verbal theft in literature or theater or journalism -- crimes worthy of a revoked prize, publishing-house excommunication or an Oprah-esque dressing-down -- registers as barely a misdemeanor in the realm of comedy and comics. ❋ Michael Cavna (2010)
And the gift is of an interesting kind, not well served by that dull publishing-house title Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance with its suggestion of a simple linear inheritance, of paternal dreams and aspirations passed down to a son, and fulfilled. ❋ Smith, Zadie (2009)
Some publishing-house style-guides recommend hyphens and some don't. ❋ DC (2007)
Availing myself, then, of the privileges to which I have alluded, I strolled onward in that labyrinth of small dark rooms, or crypts, to speak our own antiquarian language, which form the extensive back-settlements of that celebrated publishing-house. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Old Sir Charles Gavan Duffy was coming from Australia to start an Irish publishing-house, and publish a series of books, and I did not expect to agree with him, but knew that I must not seek a quarrel. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)
The publishing-house offices were on the top floor. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2001)
Katie then walked past Mary, down the short hallway of the publishing-house offices, to the single elevator. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2001)
AT nine o'clock that morning Rosella arrived in her little office on the third floor of the great publishing-house of Conant & Company, and putting up her veil without removing her hat, addressed herself to her day's work. ❋ Unknown (1996)
It should further be brought to the attention of your readers that a series of paragraphs of the German criminal code have resulted in bookstore and publishing-house raids, and fines and prison sentences for editors, publishers, and book distributors. ❋ Oppenheimer, Martin (1977)
New York, the leading phrenological publishing-house. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It was a publishing-house; books, illustrations, manuscripts, were in evidence everywhere. ❋ George Lynch (N/A)
At the very time my wife and I received this unexpected visit, we were reading together the Memoirs of Bourrienne, which the Ladvocat publishing-house had just issued; and we had remarked more than once how exempt these Memoirs were from both that spirit of disparagement and of adulation which we had noticed with disgust in other books on the same subject. ❋ Various (N/A)
Cotton Mather, the great gun of the clergy here, blazes away at this "child of iniquity" from the pulpit; and it is understood that a prominent publishing-house has already arranged to bring out _The Autobiography of a Buccaneer_. ❋ Various (N/A)
He had left his manuscript at the publishing-house, and after some time was informed that the firm would be happy to publish it, and to pay him in cash for the copyright eight hundred francs -- an offer with which he closed immediately. ❋ Various (N/A)
