billsticker

He asked me to ask you to ask somebody named Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.

Ulysses 2003

I saw him a few times in the Bleeding Horse in Camden street with Boylan, the billsticker.

Ulysses 2003

Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a billsticker), commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a boaster).

Ulysses 2003

There is some reason to suppose that the completion and dedication of the baths preceded the destruction of the city but a short time, from the inscription being found perfect on the wall of the baths, for it was the custom to write these notices in the most public places, and after a very short season they were covered over by others, as one billsticker defaces the labors of his predecessors.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a billsticker), commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a boaster).

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

I saw him a few times in the Bleeding Horse in Camden street with Boylan, the billsticker.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

We want to make the pantomime writer, the proprietor of the penny "comic," the billsticker, and the music-hall artist extremely careful, punctiliously clean, but we do not want, for example, to pester Mr. Thomas Hardy.

Mankind in the Making 1906

We want to make the pantomime writer, the proprietor of the penny “comic,” the billsticker, and the music-hall artist extremely careful, punctiliously clean, but we do not want, for example, to pester Mr. Thomas Hardy.

Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

His ladder under his arm, a billsticker appeared to post up on a blank wall facing the baker's a proclamation by the Commune apportioning the rations of butcher's-meat.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884