penny-a-lining

Lucien read on through a pile of penny-a-lining, put together on the same system as his attack upon Nathan.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

Doctor Johnson has been down the street many a time with ragged shoes, and a bundle of penny-a-lining for the

The History of Pendennis 2006

We hardly know which most to admire, the graphic and terrible simplicity of this narrative of villany, or the ignorance which it discovers of the modern art of penny-a-lining, an expert practitioner of which would have spread the shocking occurrence over as many columns as this bungling report comprises sentences.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

And if I could stand two cents in my tender infancy, don't you suppose I can stand your penny-a-lining now I am grown up?

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

In France, all kinds of petty ratspolice officials, penny-a-lining journalists, women who have slept with German soldiersare hunted down while almost without exception the big rats escape.

In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse 1945

It happened that whilst I was penny-a-lining in New

"Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

South Kensington, and the handsomest, and the cleverest, and the most fetching to experienced men who know a good thing when they see it, whatever she may be to conceited penny-a-lining puppies who think nothing good enough for them.

How He Lied to Her Husband George Bernard Shaw 1903

There is the wooden eikon which stands for questionable cigars or unquestionable penny-a-lining -- in either case a mere peg upon which to hang commercial profit.

The Indian of Commerce Anonymous 1901

In France, all kinds of petty rats — police officials, penny-a-lining journalists, women who have slept with German soldiers — are hunted down while almost without exception the big rats escape.

Collected Essays 1900

For the same reason (incredible as it must appear in an American) I never entertained the least suspicion that they were destined to be dished up with a sauce of penny-a-lining gossip; and myself, my person, and my works of art, butchered to make a holiday for the readers of a Sunday paper.

The Wrecker 1898