Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who reads books at the stall where they are sold.
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Examples
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‘I thought at one time that our futures might have been different from what they are apparently becoming,’ he said then, regarding her as a stall-reader regards the brilliant book he cannot afford to buy.
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Cries the stall-reader, Bless us! what a word on5
On the Detraction which Followed upon my Writing Certain Treatises 1909
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'I thought at one time that our futures might have been different from what they are apparently becoming,' he said then, regarding her as a stall-reader regards the brilliant book he cannot afford to buy.
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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