I no longer stand in the outer shop of our bibliopolists, bargaining for the objects of my curiosity with an unrespective shop-lad, hustled among boys who come to buy Corderies and copy-books, and servant girls cheapening a pennyworth of paper, but am cordially welcomed by the bibliopolist himself, with. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
I dare say our worthy bibliopolist overcoloured his report of your Lordship's conversation with the Prince Regent, but. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
Ballantyne, the author's publisher, had a controversy with the interloping bibliopolist, each insisting that his Jedediah. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
This being Saturday, I expect the bibliopolist and typographer about two o'clock, I suppose, when I shall have much to journalise. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
Gourgaud has gone, or is going, to London to verify the facts alleged in my history of Napoleon, and the bibliopolist is in a great funk. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
Who was the bibliopolist with whom originated the pernicious scheme of adapting newly printed title-pages to books which had had a previous existence?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
The moment Mr. Pembroke had uttered the shibboleth, with the appropriate gesture, the bibliopolist greeted him, notwithstanding every disclamation, by the title of. From Wordnik.com. [The Waverley] Reference
Well, I thought it hard enough to write a novel at the dictate of the bibliopolist; but to be condemned to sit down and write my travels -- travels that have never extended farther than the. From Wordnik.com. [Olla Podrida] Reference
The bibliopolist seems to have bent before the storm, and pacified the incensed bard, by verbal submission, though probably without relaxing his exactions and drawbacks in any material degree. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference
Upon my making as pitiable a statement as I was able of this melancholy state of things -- and pleading with all my energies against the inevitable destruction which threatened the dear books -- the obdurate bibliopolist displayed not one scintillation of sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One] Reference
The moment Mr. Pembroke had uttered the Shibboleth, with the appropriate gesture, the bibliopolist greeted him, notwithstanding every disclamation, by the title of Doctor, and conveying him into his back shop, after inspecting every possible and impossible place of concealment, he commenced: 'Eh, Doctor!. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
Madge Murdockson, called Madge Wildfire; and of her pious conversation with his Reverence Archdeacon Fleming; '' which authentic publication had apparently taken place on the day they left Carlisle, and being an article of a nature peculiarly acceptable to such country-folk as were within hearing of the transaction, the itinerant bibliopolist had forthwith added them to his stock in trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
A rocking-chair, inhaling the fragrance of a series of cigars, with my legs and slippered feet horizontally disposed, and in my hand a novel purchased of a railroad bibliopolist. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
The moment Mr. Pembroke had uttered the Shibboleth, with the appropriate gesture, the bibliopolist greeted him, notwithstanding every disclamation, by the title of Doctor, and conveying him into his back shop, after inspecting every possible and impossible place of concealment, he commenced: ‘Eh, Doctor! —. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
Reverence Archdeacon Fleming;” which authentic publication had apparently taken place on the day they left Carlisle, and being an article of a nature peculiarly acceptable to such country-folk as were within hearing of the transaction, the itinerant bibliopolist had forthwith added them to his stock in trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
"And the young lady too," observed the gallant bibliopolist, bowing to her profoundly, "and this foreign gentleman, as I understand, are on a jaunt of pleasure to the same spot. From Wordnik.com. [Twice Told Tales] Reference
19 In consequence of the pseudo Tales of My Landlord printed in London, as already mentioned, the late Mr. John Ballantyne, the author’s publisher, had a controversy with the interloping bibliopolist, each insisting that his Jedediah. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
I no longer stand in the outer shop of our bibliopolists, bargaining for the objects of my curiosity with an unrespective shop-lad, hustled among boys who come to buy Corderies and copy-books, and servant girls cheapening a pennyworth of paper, but am cordially welcomed by the bibliopolist himself, with, "Pray, walk into the back-shop, Captain. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
As a bibliopolist, little need be said of him. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
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