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publishing-house

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  • But it's worth pointing out: What sometimes passes for verbal theft in literature or theater or journalism -- crimes worthy of a revoked prize, publishing-house excommunication or an Oprah-esque dressing-down -- registers as barely a misdemeanor in the realm of comedy and comics.

    The Riff: From 'SOUTH PARK' to 'POOCH CAFE': When a sense of plagiarism plagues comedy Michael Cavna 2010

  • And the gift is of an interesting kind, not well served by that dull publishing-house title Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance with its suggestion of a simple linear inheritance, of paternal dreams and aspirations passed down to a son, and fulfilled.

    Speaking in Tongues Smith, Zadie 2009

  • Some publishing-house style-guides recommend hyphens and some don't.

    Archive 2007-04-01 DC 2007

  • Some publishing-house style-guides recommend hyphens and some don't.

    On hyphenating, or not DC 2007

  • Availing myself, then, of the privileges to which I have alluded, I strolled onward in that labyrinth of small dark rooms, or crypts, to speak our own antiquarian language, which form the extensive back-settlements of that celebrated publishing-house.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • Old Sir Charles Gavan Duffy was coming from Australia to start an Irish publishing-house, and publish a series of books, and I did not expect to agree with him, but knew that I must not seek a quarrel.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Old Sir Charles Gavan Duffy was coming from Australia to start an Irish publishing-house, and publish a series of books, and I did not expect to agree with him, but knew that I must not seek a quarrel.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Old Sir Charles Gavan Duffy was coming from Australia to start an Irish publishing-house, and publish a series of books, and I did not expect to agree with him, but knew that I must not seek a quarrel.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Old Sir Charles Gavan Duffy was coming from Australia to start an Irish publishing-house, and publish a series of books, and I did not expect to agree with him, but knew that I must not seek a quarrel.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • The publishing-house offices were on the top floor.

    Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas Patterson, James, 1947- 2001

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