newsvendor

Then the demons arrived, but instead of claws, they attacked us with the twine-cutting hook-rings of a newsvendor, and we were powerless to stop them.

Masked Lou Anders 2010

Then the demons arrived, but instead of claws, they attacked us with the twine-cutting hook-rings of a newsvendor, and we were powerless to stop them.

Masked Lou Anders 2010

I was once walking through Liverpool Street station and the newsvendor had written the day's headline on a board.

News from the House of Sticks - 2009

A newsvendor at the corner spreads a newspaper placard upon the wood pavement, pins the corners down with stones, and we glimpse something about: —

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

One must not forget that the money used to pay the salaries was money which came from the worker, from the newsvendor, the bootblack or busboy, from people who received only 90 or 100 pesos.

MASS MEETING OF ELECTRIC POWER PLANT WORKERS 1960

He stopped at a newsvendor, dropped in a coin, and waited for the reproducing mechanism to turn out a fresh paper.

Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957

More excitement was caused by a newsvendor mounting a box and holding aloft a single copy of the latest newspaper which he would sell to the highest bidder.

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

I scrambled over a pile of baggage and came within arm's length of the newsvendor.

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

A newsvendor began to sing, and was joined in chorus --

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

The newsvendor said he did not know, he did not understand.

Chivalry in the British Empire 1926