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  • As long as he had his sport, this monarch cared little how his people paid for it: he engaged in some wars, and of course the Paflagonian newspapers announced that he had gained prodigious victories: he had statues erected to himself in every city of the empire; and of course his pictures placed everywhere, and in all the print-shops: he was Valoroso the

    The Rose and the Ring 2006

  • The whole story was over the town the next day, and pictures of me were hanging in the clubs and print-shops performing the operation alluded to.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • I shall be stuck up in caricatura in all the print-shops.

    She Stoops to Conquer 2004

  • At first contented to experiment as a juvenile draughtsman, to gaze into the windows of print-shops, to collect what he could obtain in the shape of casts, to carve flowers, leaves, and monumental designs in the marble-yard of Launitz, -- then adventuring in wood sculptures and portraits, until the encouragement of Thorwaldsen, the nude models of the French Academy at Rome, and copies from the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • Hence the point of the pictorial satire which was quickly on sale at the London print-shops.

    Inns and Taverns of Old London

  • Such lovely prints as I find in the print-shops! and the flowers -- Tom Salyers, who is as kind as a brother, brings me them from the market.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

  • Nay, even the "saunterings in Bond Street," the "digressions into Soho," to explore book-stalls, the visits to print-shops and picture-galleries, soon ceased to afford Lamb much real pleasure or enjoyment.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • Mr. Pitt, believing the story, repeated it to Addington and others, with the result that messengers were despatched to all the print-shops to buy up the whole impression.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • He is the Izaak Walton of London streets, -- of print-shops, of pastry-shops, of mouldy book-stalls; the chime of Bow-bells strikes upon his ear like the chorus of a milkmaid's song at Ware.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

  • Soldiers who were ordered to attack the print-shops refused.

    Appendix to Chapter III 1922

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