A newsvendor began to sing, and was joined in chorus. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
I scrambled over a pile of baggage and came within arm's length of the newsvendor. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
I was once walking through Liverpool Street station and the newsvendor had written the day's headline on a board. From Wordnik.com. [News from the House of Sticks -] Reference
He stopped at a newsvendor, dropped in a coin, and waited for the reproducing mechanism to turn out a fresh paper. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
A newsvendor at the corner spreads a newspaper placard upon the wood pavement, pins the corners down with stones, and we glimpse something about: —. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
Then the demons arrived, but instead of claws, they attacked us with the twine-cutting hook-rings of a newsvendor, and we were powerless to stop them. From Wordnik.com. [Masked] Reference
More excitement was caused by a newsvendor mounting a box and holding aloft a single copy of the latest newspaper which he would sell to the highest bidder. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
One must not forget that the money used to pay the salaries was money which came from the worker, from the newsvendor, the bootblack or busboy, from people who received only 90 or 100 pesos. From Wordnik.com. [MASS MEETING OF ELECTRIC POWER PLANT WORKERS] Reference
True, every blessed word! 'said the old newsvendor. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
The newsvendor said he did not know, he did not understand. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry in the British Empire] Reference
A newsvendor passed along the terrace of the Café d'Harcourt bawling. From Wordnik.com. [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference
Disaster followed, and that was the end of his career as a newsvendor. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunate Youth] Reference
'Give the speaker a chaunce, caun't ye?' said the newsvendor, with a withering look. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
"I will say newsvendor if that will be better -- one cannot be too particular -- Aged --?". From Wordnik.com. [The Perpetual Curate] Reference
Sir John bustled on, anxious to anticipate in other quarters the coming newsvendor, and Sir Robert turned to his lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Hero A Novel] Reference
My friends grieved, my very publishers wrung their hands, my newsvendor took me aside and besought me to live on a high hill. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
"Ah! here's a special Sunday evening paper -- how we encourage wickedness!" said the Premier, seeing a newsvendor approaching. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Hero A Novel] Reference
Trevelyan's address besides the newsvendor who supplied her paper, from whose boy Colonel Osborne's servant obtained the information. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
A newsvendor at the corner spreads a newspaper placard upon the wood pavement, pins the corners down with stones, and we glimpse something about. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
In The Watchmen, the original Nite Owl, Hollis Mason, tells us that "the world has moved on" (p32 / vol3) and while this may be true, he seems to forget what the newsvendor advises, that "everything's connected" (p2 / vol3). From Wordnik.com. [Mania News Feed] Reference
The rumble from Piccadilly was all the sound he heard, and with the thought, 'If these motor-cars increase, it'll affect house property,' he was about to pass on up to the room always kept ready for him when he heard, distant as yet, the hoarse rushing call of a newsvendor. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
The MLOG team analyzed the problem and helped the company build more flexibility into its supply chain by using a newsvendor approach, a model that takes the methods of newspaper vendors who must calculate daily how many papers to buy to meet market demand without exceeding it. From Wordnik.com. [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference
Piker, newsvendor, Shepherd's Market, who had purposed circulating among you "twenty copies" of the enclosed literary venture -- curtailed, it is true, to the original "Piker paragraph," and unaccompanied by the Piker twenty-penny prospect; the printing of which may -- who knows?. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Making Enemies] Reference
"The newsvendor is abroad to-night like a bird of ill-omen. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
A newsvendor was heard shouting the other day, "European War. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914] Reference
Scores of people knew Mrs Trevelyan’s address besides the newsvendor who supplied her paper, from whose boy Colonel. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
Pardon me … the nasty tart was a druggy … and in a protest situation she was shouting in the face of a copper … oh that’s fine you can do what you like … like kill a newsvendor?. From Wordnik.com. [Replace Police With Spin Doctors « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Local newsvendor, Mr. Sumatra, a former colonel in Haiti’s fearsome secret police, is so incensed that he severs the victim’s heads, then shrinks and reanimates them as mini-superheroes bent on justice and revenge. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Shrunken Heads] Reference
The rumble from Piccadilly was all the sound he heard, and with the thought, ‘If these motor-cars increase, it’ll affect house property,’ he was about to pass on up to the room always kept ready for him when he heard, distant as yet, the hoarse rushing call of a newsvendor. From Wordnik.com. [In Chancery] Reference
The old newsvendor led the applause. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
The shouts of the newsvendor died away. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914] Reference
"Davy," the newsvendor, 6. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference
'Oh, yes,' said the newsvendor, 'go on!. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
Society of Painter-Etchers, to Mr. Piker, newsvendor, Shepherd's. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Making Enemies] Reference
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