"Newsboy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... folks, the oldest was Harry, the newsboy; then came Katie, and Willie, and Fred, and, last ...
— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various
... whisky and gambled for pennies, was immoral in his relations with women and as thick-skinned as he was blatant. He had been a newsboy, a contractor's clerk, and climbed up by the application of his wits. He read enormously—newspapers, cheap magazines, medical books; he had an opinion about everything, and usually worsted every one at the Grays' in arguments. And he did his patients good by giving them sympathy and massage. ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis
... thrust aside, and replaced by a train newsboy. Mr. Magee felt that he should always remember that boy, his straw colored hair, his freckled beaming face, his lips with ...
— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers
... have your interest. That man who, in building a mission church in a rough, uncouth neighborhood, called on the hoodlums in the vicinity to make a contribution of a brick apiece for the new church, was a wise man. Every bootblack, every newsboy, every garbage gatherer in it who put a brick in that church had an interest in it. It was "Our Church," and at once the interest of the neighborhood was secured for this mission church, as it could have been done in no other way. So we ask you to withhold not your bricks; with the ...
— The American Missionary, Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888 • Various
... was weary and worn. The dancing sparkles laughed at him; he did not feel like "laughing back". Even as he leaned against the parapet a newsboy close at hand ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham
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