"Newsboy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the newsboy, stood trying in vain to sell the last Extra left on his hands by the dull business ...
— Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys • Various
... the awful power of the rushing monster. Then it had passed, and a roar of silence followed, as if they were suddenly plunged into a vacuum. Gradually the noises of the world began again: the rumble of a trolley-car on the bridge; the "honk-honk" of an automobile; the cry of a newsboy. Slowly their breath and ...
— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill
... in Camden, Ohio. Primary school education. Newsboy until he became strong enough to work; then a day laborer. With American army in Cuban campaign. Studied for a few months at college, Springfield, Ohio. Now an advertising writer. Author of "Windy McPherson's ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... the shrill, musical falsetto startled the passers-by, and in another moment a little semicircle of the curious watched spellbound as a black man, exquisitely appareled, danced in wild, loose grace before the dull background of a somewhat grimy and apparently vacant window. A newsboy ...
— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various
... agent was full of stories. He told his experiences, the legends and myths that had grown up around the history of the lottery; he told of the poor newsboy with a dying mother to support who had drawn a prize of fifteen thousand; of the man who was driven to suicide through want, but who held (had he but known it) the number that two days after his death drew the capital prize of thirty thousand dollars; ...
— McTeague • Frank Norris
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