penny-a-liner

Mall to come over and speak to poor Brown, the young penny-a-liner.

The Book of Snobs 2006

Sir Marmaduke, ‘if I were to go and leave my girl as it were in the hands of a penny-a-liner.’

He Knew He Was Right 2004

These good things would have been accepted had it not been for this rascal of a penny-a-liner, this friend of that other rascal Trevelyan, who had come in the way of their family to destroy the happiness of them all!

He Knew He Was Right 2004

But this “penny-a-liner,” as the Doctor indignantly called him, had attacked him in his tenderest point.

Dr. Wortle's school 2004

Sir Marmaduke, in speaking of Stanbury after this, would constantly call him a penny-a-liner, thinking that the contamination of the penny communicated itself to all transactions of the Daily Record.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

From the penny-a-liner to the artist and thinker, the demand for their labour continually increases.

Woman and Labour 2003

“It has pleased the average penny-a-liner”: EWR, unpublished biographical sketch of WAR.

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

Now a penny-a-liner is indebted to a single phrase which furnishes his column; a clergyman near

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

Not to be on the "Index" would call a blush to the cheek of the most unambitious of authors, -- would carry a presumption of worthlessness with it from which even the penny-a-liner would shrink with dismay, -- and to the poet and historian would sound like a sentence of perpetual exclusion from all those cherished hopes which irradiate with heavenly light the steep and thorny paths of intellectual renown.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

But the American penny-a-liner, our readers know, does the thing on the vast scale of his country.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various