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  • No sooner were the placards announcing the auction put up on the premises than Kolb tore them down; he hurried round the town after the bill-poster, tearing the placards from the walls.

    Eve and David 2007

  • No sooner were the placards announcing the auction put up on the premises than Kolb tore them down; he hurried round the town after the bill-poster, tearing the placards from the walls.

    Eve and David 2007

  • For reply the stranger dived into another pocket, and, bringing to light a long bill-poster, held it up before Mr Villiers.

    Madame Midas 2003

  • It's jot T - R - A - P painted all over it, in bill-poster letters seventeen meters high.

    Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

  • After the box office man had settled with the bill-poster there was only $5.25 in the drawer.

    A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

  • He had been to the box office, but the bill-poster had anticipated him, and had threatened to clean out the ranch if he didn't get his money.

    A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

  • Last week when a bill-poster was pasting up some advertisements on our barn,

    Master Sunshine C. F. Fraser

  • "There they are -- watching that bill-poster," said Bert.

    The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City Laura Lee Hope

  • Apparently unaware that the girl was exchanging meaningful glances with a couple of husky characters labeled "BOUNCER" in bill-poster type, the atypical mucker strode up to the long and ornate bar.

    First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • It would never occur to A, B, or C to skulk from shadow to shadow of a night, with paint-pot and brush in hand, and to smear Arabic numerals of bill-poster size on sidewalk or buildings, if "class spirit" did not add stimulus to individual bent.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

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