printing-presses

There was the organization of the mouth-to-mouth propaganda; the organization, with all its ramifications, of our spy system; the establishment of our secret printing-presses; and the establishment of our underground railways, which meant the knitting together of all our myriads of places of refuge, and the formation of new refuges where links were missing in the chains we ran over all the land.

Chapter 19: Transformation 2010

Did the stars, the ley-lines and the land-wights work in harmony with Gaia to build all those grammar schools and hospitals and printing-presses and alms-houses, perhaps?

[easter] a post for you to skip over 2009

Yet it is the whole point of Socialism, the whole case for Socialism, that unless all printing-presses are Government printing-presses, printers may be oppressed.18

Oikos and Logos: Chesterton's Vision of Distributism 2008

It is absurd to suppose that he could borrow the royal pen to advocate regicide or use the Government printing-presses to expose the corruption of the Government.

Oikos and Logos: Chesterton's Vision of Distributism 2008

Linked inseparably with all these premature expressions of the desire for a new life were the activities of more extensive revolutionary systems: printing-presses in cellars, furtive distribution of papers, secret meetings, the savage discipline of fear-ruled illegal societies, the going to and fro of emissaries — men often with narrow and ill-assorted minds, but nevertheless men with everything to lose and little to gain or hope for by such activities.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

A certain number of these documents had been seized, but the forgers had themselves admitted that hundreds of these forgeries from their printing-presses had been in circulation for some years and that, as they kept no books, they were unable to supply a list of their customers.

Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

Five hundred millions of Five-twenties are now payable, and according to the easy mode suggested, all we have to do is set the printing-presses in motion, and

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

Our great printing-presses, since largely borrowed from and imported by Europe, were scarcely noticed.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

For some reason they were delayed there for ten months, and during that time he was kept busy editing a number of his works, keeping two printing-presses going all the time.

Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies' Alice J. Knight

The printing-presses of those days were made chiefly of wood, and Hoe's skill as a wood-worker was valuable to the firm.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis