"paragrapher" -- enclosing a taste of his quality in the shape of two stanzas of "humorous rhymes.". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Letters of Mark Twain] Reference
As a spicy paragrapher, originator of attractive news features, and as a keen observer of popular tastes, he has few equals and no superiors in the army of Afro-American journalists. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
He began as a paragrapher in St. Louis, quickly achieving somewhat more than a merely local reputation. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Book of Western Verse] Reference
The style of this reviewer is that of the smart news - paper paragrapher and there appears to be a personal dislike of Mr. Flint. From Wordnik.com. [De la philosophie de la nature] Reference
But there was very much less of this sort of thing and of the daily badinage of the paragrapher than in the days of Field's primacy in that line. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
For more than a decade, and until he became enamoured of books and bibliomania, Field was the most widely quoted political paragrapher in America. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
I found an intensely amusing book, "Who's Who in Japan," a copy of which would be a valuable standby to a newspaper paragrapher in his bad moments. From Wordnik.com. [Pipefuls] Reference
A pine table with two drawers was considered good enough for the most brilliant paragrapher in the United States, and, for all he cared, so it was. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
There was little about his work at this time that gave promise of anything beyond the spicy facility of a quick-witted, light-hearted western paragrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
"I hope to be famous some day, and if the American newspaper paragrapher ever got hold of the fact that once in my life I was Hiram, I'd have to Hiram to let me alone.". From Wordnik.com. [The Water Ghost and Others] Reference
Thither he returned in the spring of 1876, and the Evening Journal, being by this time consolidated with the Times, he became an editorial writer and paragrapher on the hyphenated publication. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
A very rich man with us is all the more ridiculous for his more millions; he becomes a byword if not a hissing; he is the meat of the paragrapher, the awful example of the preacher; his money is found to smell of his methods. From Wordnik.com. [Seven English Cities] Reference
It would be hard to persuade people now that Emerson once represented to the popular mind all that was most hopelessly impossible, and that in a certain sort he was a national joke, the type of the incomprehensible, the byword of the poor paragrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
When it came Field's time, all untimely, to pay the debt we all must pay, it was left for Sir Henry Irving, the dean of the English-speaking profession, to acknowledge in a brief telegram his own and its debt to the departed poet and paragrapher in these words. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
Some acute person once said that every author learns to think in the length in which he is accustomed to write, -- the paragrapher in the length of paragraphs, the editorial writer in the length of editorial articles, the historian in the length of the monograph or full-bodied history. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Wilkins: An Idealist in Masquerade] Reference
I should say, let him take the celebrity it gives him gratefully but not too seriously; let him reflect that he is often the necessity rather than the ideal of the paragrapher, and that the notoriety the journalists bestow upon him is not the measure of their acquaintance with his work, far less his meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Letters as a Man of Business] Reference
The speech of presentation was made by our friend, “Colonel” James S. Norton, in what the rural paragrapher would have described as “the most felicitous effort of his life,” and the wonderful collection was commended to Mr. Larned's grateful preservation by the judgment of Mr. Henry Field, whose own choice selection of paintings is the most valued possession of the Chicago Art Institute. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
His life was one of the most regulated and peaceful after he had given up active journalism, for like so many others, he began his career as a political reporter, paragrapher and dramatic critic. ". From Wordnik.com. [Brazilian Tales] Reference
The peccant paragrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
"paragrapher" had his season of merry-making. From Wordnik.com. [Old Ebenezer] Reference
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