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As he grumbled over his mishaps, in his peculiar vernacular, laughter commenced with the men, and ended in a roar at the song of the news-boy.

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

Not the cold, wet, chilly night, that is settling down on the forlorn-looking city outside; not the cheerless night, that makes the news-boy gather his rags more closely about him, and stand under the projecting doorway of some dilapidated, tenantless building, as he cries

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

This is Dolly, Belle's sister, and this is Bill -- a little news-boy who helped me when I was down and out.

The Pot Boiler Upton Sinclair 1923

The mute news-boy on the corner said never a word as he handed to the speechless buyers the damp sheets from the press; only he brushed, with unwashed hand, the tears from his dirty cheeks.

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913

The news-boy took down the shutters of his stall, a porter quenched the expiring lamp, and

Miss Mapp 1903

I have been news-boy, teamster, pugilist, member of an organized band of 'toughs,' bartender, and a 'sport' in various meanings of the word.

Whirligigs O. Henry 1886

The mute news-boy on the corner said never a word as he handed to the speechless buyers the damp sheets from the press; only he brushed, with unwashed hand, the tears from his dirty cheeks.

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him 1878

"Somp'n wid a mustache, somp'n wid a mustache," like a news-boy calling an extra.

Tom Grogan Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

You should have seen us, with pale faces and hurried steps, making our way amid the jeers and gibes of our tormentors -- some of the little ones blubbering, one or two of the bigger ones looking hardly comfortable, and a few of the biggest inwardly ruminating when and how it would best be possible to kill that Runnit the news-boy, or Hodge the cow-boy!

My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Men curse on the way to the bar to get their morning dram; curse the news-boy who cries the paper; curse the breakfast for being cold; curse at the bank, and curse at the store; curse on the way to bed; curse at the stone against which they strike their foot; and curse at the splinter that gets under the nail.

The Abominations of Modern Society 1867