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When they in the pews are those in white robes, then He in the pulpit is the Christ Himself In literature we have to differentiate what is purely a commercial product like the yellowback novel, what is educational like the classic, and what is of the new.

—A Tramp's Sketches

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When they in the pews are those in white robes, then He in the pulpit is the Christ Himself In literature we have to differentiate what is purely a commercial product like the yellowback novel, what is educational like the classic, and what is of the new. — A Tramp's Sketches
Perhaps, to tell the truth, they had never before seen even one yellowback note, and hardly understood what they were. — The House Boat Boys
You saw what that fellow flashed, a twenty dollar yellowback, a word to Skippy and the Kennedy would follow. — Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
"Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was! — The Delicious Vice
As he idly opened the book there was disclosed a little collection of genuine government yellowback bills, not one of which was less than ten dollars in its denomination. — The House Boat Boys