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As long as he had his sport, this monarch cared little how his people paid for it: he engaged in some wars, and of course the Paflagonian newspapers announced that he had gained prodigious victories: he had statues erected to himself in every city of the empire; and of course his pictures placed everywhere, and in all the print-shops: he was Valoroso the
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The whole story was over the town the next day, and pictures of me were hanging in the clubs and print-shops performing the operation alluded to.
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I shall be stuck up in caricatura in all the print-shops.
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At first contented to experiment as a juvenile draughtsman, to gaze into the windows of print-shops, to collect what he could obtain in the shape of casts, to carve flowers, leaves, and monumental designs in the marble-yard of Launitz, -- then adventuring in wood sculptures and portraits, until the encouragement of Thorwaldsen, the nude models of the French Academy at Rome, and copies from the
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Hence the point of the pictorial satire which was quickly on sale at the London print-shops.
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Such lovely prints as I find in the print-shops! and the flowers -- Tom Salyers, who is as kind as a brother, brings me them from the market.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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Nay, even the "saunterings in Bond Street," the "digressions into Soho," to explore book-stalls, the visits to print-shops and picture-galleries, soon ceased to afford Lamb much real pleasure or enjoyment.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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Mr. Pitt, believing the story, repeated it to Addington and others, with the result that messengers were despatched to all the print-shops to buy up the whole impression.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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He is the Izaak Walton of London streets, -- of print-shops, of pastry-shops, of mouldy book-stalls; the chime of Bow-bells strikes upon his ear like the chorus of a milkmaid's song at Ware.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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Soldiers who were ordered to attack the print-shops refused.
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