'I know it's very unliterary of me, but I enjoy reading newspapers better than reading anything else in the world.

For we all read newspapers, and we all forget them!

Kurt was actually afraid to tell his father, who never read newspapers, who knew little of what was going on, that if the Allies were to win the war it was wheat that would be the greatest factor.

Mrs. Cowan only read newspapers to see the bargains, crotchet patterns, and murders, and after that, she believed their only use was to be put on pantry shelves.

He said that on the previous day, about half-past twelve o'clock, he had brought a small parcel there, addressed to Mr. Fullaway, and had handed it to a gentleman who was reading newspapers, and who had answered 'Yes' when inquired of as Mr. Fullaway.

It also suggests that police constables do not read newspapers.

In 1833 he was made postmaster of a small village; but the office paid nothing, and his principal profit from it was the opportunity to read newspapers and some magazine trash.

In some offices, instead of the time being spent in reading newspapers and gossiping, it was devoted to devouring the synopsis and spelling out French novels, while many feigned business outside to consult their pocket-dictionaries on the sly.

The Duke relies upon the support of 'respectable people,' and despises the rabble; but the rabble read newspapers, and gradually carry along with them the 'respectable people' they outnumber.

One or two men sat reading newspapers about a green-shaded lamp on the centre table, but Bobby didn't see Paredes at first.

He carried me to a handsome room over Murray's book-store, which he has fitted up as a sort of literary lounge, where authors resort to read newspapers, and talk literary gossip.

It is useless to recall to those who read newspapers the clustering glories of that bloodless campaign.

The second consideration that forbids us to anticipate any parallelism of the history of 1915-45 with 1815-45 is the greater lucidity of the general mind, the fact that all Western Europe, down to the agricultural labourers, can read and write and does read newspapers and "get ideas.

I went one Sunday to a Presbyterian church, and was much struck on my entry at seeing all the congregation reading newspapers.

The men were reading newspapers and magazines; one was manipulating the melodeon, and another at the vice was busy with the file.

Nevertheless, all men are more or less misanthropes, or they affect to be so; for only skim off the bile of a true critic, or the minds of the hundred thousand who read newspapers, and look first for the bankrupts and deaths.

Men read newspapers for news, and, since the collection of news is enormously costly, nine-tenths of the electorate read between them a small number of established papers advocating broad party principles.

Returning from Chapel, I observed a number of gentlemen sitting under a tree reading newspapers.

Many workmen were lounging in front of a factory, most of them reading newspapers.

During these three months I again refused to read books, though within my reach, but I sometimes read newspapers.

" "But," put in Lord Mountdean, "did you never read my advertisments?" "No, sir," she replied; "I have not been in the habit of reading newspapers.

To be convinced that there is everywhere a great interest in narration we need only to listen to conversations, notice what constitutes the subject-matter of letters of friendship, read newspapers and magazines, and observe what classes of books are most frequently drawn from our libraries.

Reading newspapers is unprofitable.

I had been reading newspapers eagerly all day, when he came, and, from a contradictory mass of evidence, had gleaned some grains of truth.