garretteer

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The wise politicians of the metropolis declared they were both masterly performances, and chuckled over the flimsy reveries of an ignorant garretteer, as the profound speculations of a veteran statesman, acquainted with all the secrets of the cabinet.

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Ministers of state, marshals, and princes of the blood, were as busy as any Grub-street garretteer.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various