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  • He thrust his hand-bills at every passing pedestrian, not taking no for an answer.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010

  • He thrust his hand-bills at every passing pedestrian, not taking no for an answer.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010

  • He thrust his hand-bills at every passing pedestrian, not taking no for an answer.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010

  • Hurriedly, I photocopied a batch of hand-bills which had written across them, Ceasefire Now!, drove across town and plastered them wherever I could.

    Pro Patria Mori? 2007

  • So, determined not to be outdone, I printed double the number of hand-bills and, this time, stuck them with a much stronger glue.

    Pro Patria Mori? 2007

  • He bounced across the parking lot and his high beams caught a busty young woman in the embrace of an old man, then flashed across the side of the building and faded hand-bills touting last year's circus.

    Clean Kill Alexander, Al 2000

  • Radicals, like the Sons of Liberty, appealed to the mind—hand-bills, one resident noted, are “daily and hourly printed, published, pasted up”—and to the mob.

    Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

  • Radicals, like the Sons of Liberty, appealed to the mind—hand-bills, one resident noted, are “daily and hourly printed, published, pasted up”—and to the mob.

    Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

  • Boston Tea-Party, and other acts of rebellion, the soldiers of the crown had distributed royalist hand-bills broadcast, with this heading:

    Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser

  • And as he sang, the prophetic words rose upon the air, and were wafted, together with an odor of new leather and paste-pot, out of the window, and fell upon the ear of a ragged urchin with an armful of hand-bills.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

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