paper-boy

If you're from the WW II, Silent, Boomer or GenX generations, your daily ritual probably includes a cup of joe, a comfortable sit and a morning paper which means, like rabbit-ears TV and the paper-boy, your time is coming to an end.

Tom Alderman: Helping to Make the Transition from Newspaper to Internet News Reader 2009

Then, after two upsets with her father over Timmy, another with a couple of boys who laughed at him, and one with the paper-boy, she decided she wouldn't stay at Kirrin Cottage for one day longer!

Five On A Secret Trail Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1956

She made friends with everyone, even the paper-boy, who was really scared of dogs.

Five Have Plenty Of Fun Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1955

And I hope that that fathead of a Henry doesn't come along early in the morning, whistling like a paper-boy, and wake you up!

Five Go To Mystery Moor Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1954

Dr. Thompson, Master of Trinity, informed Professor Herkomer that he, too, was riding in an omnibus on the famous 17th of July, when he bought a copy from a paper-boy, and began to look at it with curiosity.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

The "paper-boy" came through and offered me a New York _Illustrated Weekly_, adorned on the first page with the portrait of Jefferson Davis, for whom the South was then mourning with great abundance of white and black cotton cloth.

The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 02, February, 1890 Various

She smiled a watery smile when he told her how Dick had gone off as the paper-boy in order to watch who took the notebook that night, and described how surprised Sid was.

Five Fall Into Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950

I threw a coin to the paper-boy, and two small round objects like boot-buttons rolled on to the platform.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 Various

Let the watcher see his bag of papers and be deceived into thinking he was without any doubt the paper-boy.

Five Fall Into Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950

Anyone watching would see them clearly - and would certainly not guess that Sid, the fourth one, was the paper-boy and not Dick.

Five Fall Into Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950