78 examples of bookseller's in sentences

Samuel Johnson, the elder of two sons of Michael Johnson, who was of an obscure family, and kept a bookseller's shop at Lichfield, was born in that city on the 18th of September, 1709.

[Fr.], essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker^, diaskeaust^, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor^; playwright &c 599; poet &c 597. bookseller, publisher; bibliopole^, bibliopolist^; librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.

The opium eater crossed us once with a dazzling path, and hath as suddenly left us darkling; and in short I shall go on from dull to worse, because I cannot resist the Bookseller's importunitythe old plea you know of authors, but I believe on my part sincere.

I am settled in any case to take at Bookseller's price any copies I have more.

The bookseller's son, meeting an artist for the first time, listened to the old Bohemian with rapt enthusiasm.

Smollet's continuation of Hume was confessedly a bookseller's job: four octavo volumes in only ten times the number of months, even in our days of locomotive celerity, would be thought rather a suspicious piece of literary handiwork; and besides the indecent haste, so incompatible with thoroughness, the misrepresentations of Smollet are patent.

There is a bookseller's shop at the corner; I almost invariably feel tempted to stop when passing a depôt for literature, especially in a strange place; but on the present occasion a Brobdignagian notice caught my eye, and gave me a queer sensation inside my waistcoat"Awful smash among the Banks!"

The last we heard of our bookseller's hobbies, was that he had bought the lease of a house for the sake of the large garden attached to it, and here, like Evelyn in his Elysium Britannicum, he passes his days in the primitive occupation of gardening.

This is a stale affair; but Popanilla's drinking a dozen of the bookseller's wine smacks more of novelty.

He had in his hand what I saw was a bookseller's catalogue, just delivered by the postman.

And in the phrase, "at Mr. Smiths, the bookseller's," there is no apposition, except that of Mr. with Smith's; for the governing noun house or store is understood as clearly after the one possessive sign as after the other.

And so Murrain shall, in a bookseller's shape; An evil-eyed elf, in a down-looking flurry, Who'd fain be a coxcomb, and calls himself Murray.

Bookseller's progress.

Ogden Nash (A); 30Jun60; R259079. Bookseller's Dutch treat.

Bookseller's progress.

Ogden Nash (A); 30Jun60; R259079. Bookseller's Dutch treat.

or how far may it have gone towards the payment of a bookseller's bill? J.S. Feb. 7. 1850.

He made, however, so little by the imposture, that he at last confessed himself a cheat, and got his living as a well-conducted bookseller's hack for many years before his death, in 1763, aged 84.

It was opened about 1656, by a barber named James Farr, part of the house still being occupied by the bookseller's shop which had been there for at least twenty years before.

But I am interrupted by the pleasantest Scene of Anger and the Disappointment of it that I have ever known, which happened while I was yet Writing, and I overheard as I sat in the Backroom at a French Bookseller's.

If the author enters a coffee-house, he has a box to himself; if he calls at a bookseller's, the boy turns his back

When Mr. Rickerton first saw Mr. Thomson's Winter, which was in a Bookseller's shop at Edinburgh, he stood amazed, and after he had read the lines quoted below, he dropt the poem from his hand in the extasy of admiration.

From time to time there were sales by auction of a bookseller's 'copies,' but the publicthat is, the country booksellers, for there were no other likely buyerswere excluded from the sale-room.

There was never any examination of title to a bookseller's copy.

As he hung over the gate smoking, he thought of his father and mother, and of his childhood in the little Kendal shopthe bookseller's shop which had been the source and means of his truest education.

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