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Dec. 16th, 2007 at 8:06 AM erzebet, an amazing artist and book-maker, and one of my favorite people, surfaces to update all us fans of her work:
soul delay jlundberg 2007
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Lebrun is a worthy man, but he has no policy in his head; he is a book-maker.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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It is one of the highest callings even for this reason: a teacher utterly unable to see any results of her labor, in black and white, at the end of her pupil's course, as the book-maker may see in the number of printed pages, is willing to trust that, because she has done what she could, good will come to her pupil.
Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Annie H Ryder
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Might have been a book-maker -- you never can tell.
The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald
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I am not a book-maker, and make no pretensions to literary attainments; and I have made no efforts to create for myself
Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson Charles Thompson
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For, to make no mention of the vulgar buffooneries of Bunn or Grattan, we hold that neither the exalted and irrepressible prosiness of Dr. Charles Mackay, nor the cleverish magic-lantern pictures of that good-natured book-maker, Mr. Anthony
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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On the arrival of a gendarme, he explained that he was an English book-maker, and that
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 Various
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BARON STERNBERG, a dilettante book-maker of Germany, who generally resides at Berlin, has just added a new romance, or rather the beginning of one, to his previous publications.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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Instead of signing with their marks, the kings of modern times have turned ushers; instead of reading with difficulty, we have a mob of noblemen who write with ease; and, now-a-days, it is every duke, ay, and every duchess her own book-maker!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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Garrison was a thief and cur; and that he would have no book-maker and tout --
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