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Definition of Paperboys
1. paperboy [n] - See also: paperboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paperboys
Literary usage of Paperboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... nine orangemen and women, I don't know how many news paperboys, .hotel-cads,
and old-clothesmen), and, whirling about two little white fists in the face ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"Match-girls there are none ; paperboys there are, but their trousers are not too
short, and their shoes and stockings are well mended. ..."
3. Inside the British Isles by Arthur Gleason (1917)
"In one district they found twenty-four paperboys with hours varying from 7% to
25 per school week. The beginning hour in the morning seems to be from 6 to ..."
4. Inside the British Isles by Arthur Gleason (1917)
"In one district they found twenty-four paperboys with hours varying from 7% to
25 per school week. The beginning hour in the morning seems to be from 6 to ..."
5. The Lure of Music: Depicting the Human Side of Great Composers, with Stories by Olin Downes, Columbia Graphophone Company (U.S.) (1918)
"Cab-drivers, chauffeurs, flower-sellers, paperboys, and street children hummed
and whistled airs from his works as he passed them. ..."
6. Memories and Impressions: A Study in Atmospheres by Ford Madox Ford (1911)
"In that short passage of darkness there will be innumerable sounds of happiness,
innumerable laughs, the cries of paperboys, the voices of policemen ..."
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