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  • noun Plural form of paragraphist.

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Examples

  • Bryan and Roosevelt - a reference well known by all newspaper paragraphists and vaudeville monologists to

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • That his estates were as vast as an average English county, and his ancestry among the noblest in Europe, would not alone perhaps have arrested the attention of the paragraphists, since acres and forefathers of foreign extraction are rightly regarded as conferring at the most a claim merely to toleration.

    Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large 1907

  • That his estates were as vast as an average English county, and his ancestry among the noblest in Europe, would not alone perhaps have arrested the attention of the paragraphists, since acres and forefathers of foreign extraction are rightly regarded as conferring at the most a claim merely to toleration.

    Count Bunker 1905

  • That his estates were as vast as an average English county, and his ancestry among the noblest in Europe, would not alone perhaps have arrested the attention of the paragraphists, since acres and forefathers of foreign extraction are rightly regarded as conferring at the most a claim merely to toleration.

    Count Bunker 1905

  • I shall not easily forget my first evening there, when I saw for the time a living house -- the dissolute paragraphists, the elegant mashers (mark the imaginativeness of the slang), the stolid, good-humoured costers, the cheerful lights o 'love, the extraordinary comics.

    Confessions of a Young Man 1892

  • "By whom?", he enquired; -- "By the society paragraphists who are paid for their compliments?"

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • "By whom?", he enquired; -- "By the society paragraphists who are paid for their compliments?"

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • "By whom?", he enquired; -- "By the society paragraphists who are paid for their compliments?"

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Perhaps too many of our courses of study are better fitted to turn out many-sided but superficial paragraphists, than men who can lay deep plans, and subordinate many complex means to one remote end.

    Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

  • His acquaintance with the family dated from their social palingenesis, when, after obscure prosperity in a southern suburb, they fluttered to the northern heights, and were observed of the paragraphists.

    The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880

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