Show Bill

A bed or two, a table, a wooden chest, and a few chairs compose the furniture; while a stray show-bill or a newspaper makes up the decorations for the walls. ❋ Unknown (1903)

The flushed face, the eager, upturned eyes, deep blue as the sea, the little hands clutching the show-bill, which fairly quivered between the tanned fingers -- all these touched and amused me. ❋ Unknown (1899)

There can be no doubt that the show-bill pictures of the menageries were in colors. ❋ Eugene Wood (1891)

I chanced once, a long while afterwards, to be in a country town where her troupe was giving exhibitions; I even read the gaudily illumined show-bill, setting forth the accomplishments of Zuleika, the famed ❋ Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1871)

Peeping within-doors, we perceive the whitewashed walls bedecked with sundry lithographic prints and advertisements of various import and the immense show-bill of a wandering caravan. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

a few chairs compose the furniture; while a stray show-bill or a newspaper makes up the decorations for the walls. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The show often falls short of the promise in the show-bill. " ❋ George Frisbie Hoar (1865)

There was a show-bill printed during the reign of Queen Anne, a copy of which is still to be seen in one of the public libraries in England, to the following effect: "To be seen, at the Ship, upon Great Tower Hill, the finest taught horse in the world. ❋ Unknown (1835)

That asshole [no show bill] He never showed up to work today because he drank 15 beer and [snorted] half an [8 ball] ❋ Do Hoe (2023)