news-vender

It was between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station, where a one-legged news-vender displayed his evening papers.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

It was between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station, where a one-legged news-vender displayed his evening papers.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

It was between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station, where a one-legged news-vender displayed his evening papers.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

It was between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station, where a one-legged news-vender displayed his evening papers.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

On the way from Paris to the Riviera we encountered at Lyons very cold weather, and, giving my wraps to my wife, I hurried out into the station in the evening, bought of a news-vender a mass of old newspapers, and, having swathed myself in these, went through the night comfortably, although our coupé was exposed to a most piercing wind.

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

The shrubs in the plantation shimmered forth in green garments, the news-vender by the gate, the little old Basque peasant woman telling her beads in the shade of a holly-tree, even the children screaming at play on the gravelled pathway, were touched with the charm of the hour.

Max Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893

Street he stopped to buy an evening paper from the aged news-vender at the corner; he then crossed Piccadilly Circus into Coventry Street, skirted Leicester Square, and at the end of Green Street entered

The Lost Road Richard Harding Davis 1890

From the time at which he left his home until his return to it he spoke to only two persons -- the news-vender to whom he handed a halfpenny; the waiter who served him the regular table d'hote dinner -- between whom and Hertz nothing passed but three and six for the dinner and sixpence for the waiter himself.

The Lost Road Richard Harding Davis 1890

On the steps, as he entered, stood a figure long familiar in the streets of Warwick, a blind news-vender, with his cane and smoked glasses and bundle of papers.

The Mayor of Warwick Herbert M��ller Hopkins 1890

When he bought his evening paper six pairs of eyes watched him place a halfpenny in the hand of the news-vender, and during the entire time of his stay in Pavoni's every mouthful he ate was noted -- every direction he gave the waiter was overheard.

The Lost Road Richard Harding Davis 1890