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- noun Plural form of
newsboy .
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Examples
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In like manner, the traveller at the busy station, when intent upon catching his train, is perhaps totally unconscious of the impressions being received from the passing throngs, the calling newsboys, the shunting engines, and the malodorous cattle cars.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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“In the Lock-out the newsboys was the first to strike.”
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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“In the Lock-out the newsboys was the first to strike.”
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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A few of his brother officers grinned at him as he passed, and he blushed, but the dignity of the law must be upheld and the crime of gambling among the newsboys was a growing evil.
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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The newsboys were the first to go, as they must be on hand at the newspaper offices early to get their supply of papers, and fold them in readiness for early customers.
Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves Horatio Alger 1865
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More than 600 guests crowded into the Twentieth Century Club, where they were met by Courier "newsboys" hawking the latest edition (the program printed to look like a vintage newspaper) and Carmon Rinehart posing as the great Courier photographer Charles "Teenie"
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More than 600 guests crowded into the Twentieth Century Club, where they were met by Courier "newsboys" hawking the latest edition (the program printed to look like a vintage newspaper) and Carmon Rinehart posing as the great Courier photographer Charles "Teenie"
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More than 600 guests crowded into the Twentieth Century Club, where they were met by Courier "newsboys" hawking the latest edition (the program printed to look like a vintage newspaper) and Carmon Rinehart posing as the great Courier photographer Charles "Teenie"
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More than 600 guests crowded into the Twentieth Century Club, where they were met by Courier "newsboys" hawking the latest edition (the program printed to look like a vintage newspaper) and Carmon Rinehart posing as the great Courier photographer Charles "Teenie"
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At the center of the narrative, the artists placed two newsboys, whose message ripples through the crowd, changing the looks on faces known and unknown (Cornelius Vanderbilt stands on the far right, for example).
American Portraits of Hard Times Judith H. Dobrzynski 2010
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