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Example sentences for "newsboys"

Lexicographically close words:
newlie; newly; newness; news; newsboy; newscast; newsdealers; newsies; newsletter; newsletters
  1. As the mass of people watched the supremely calm column of steam rising high in the air of that August morning, newsboys began to circulate among them, their strident cries sounding strangely among the silent multitude.

  2. Word of his effort and of the disappearance of the steam plume had preceded him, and as he sped uptown in the taxicab newsboys were already on the streets with their extras.

  3. Scores of newsboys were impatiently banging their heels down in the big circulation room listening for the roar of the presses which would signal that the noon edition was ready.

  4. Even the newsboys had not a understood the fact of omission.

  5. The newsboys were necessarily sufferers through the action he had taken.

  6. And when I started out on my errand I was more or less in the dark until I heard those dreadful newsboys proclaiming the tragedy.

  7. London was growing quiet, so that the shrieks of the late newsboys with the evening scare could be distinctly heard there.

  8. The early edition of the evening papers was once more full of the affairs of Asturia, and the newsboys were proclaiming the fact as they ran along before Merehaven.

  9. Down in the street the newsboys were shouting something.

  10. He had not yet learned that certain journalists are mere newsboys always beating out of their dreadnaught typewriters cries of "Extra!

  11. I see this big lawn all overrun with little newsboys and factory-girls and sick men and women.

  12. The growing hubbub of the newsboys crying the evening papers drew near the Place d'Anvers.

  13. As he reached the boulevards the bawling of newsboys attracted his attention.

  14. Whether he cried them about the streets, as the newsboys do the daily papers now, we have no means of knowing.

  15. Agreeably to the arrangement, Benjamin delivered the numbers to subscribers, and perhaps he sold the paper about the streets, thus acting as one of the first newsboys on this western continent.

  16. And all these sluggers watched the stands and drove The newsboys selling Stars away.

  17. Not upon this corner Nor on that corner, any corner in short Shall newsboys sell the Star.

  18. However, this did not worry him, as the newsboys were frequently in the habit of borrowing from each other enough to "stake" them, or enable them to buy a supply of papers from the publication office.

  19. Suddenly there was that cry which, above all others, startles the newsboys and bootblacks of New York.

  20. It made Jimmy angry to see profits that he thought should be his going into the pockets of his enemy, for Bulldog Smouder was an enemy to all the newsboys excepting those he could not whip.

  21. During the days that followed the two newsboys did a good business.

  22. He found many newsboys in that district, but he kept to the plan he had made, and in much less time than he expected he had sold all his papers and started back to Jimmy for more.

  23. He saw a crowd of lads gathered in a secluded corner, and he at once knew them to be newsboys and bootblacks, for he recognized a number of them.

  24. Then when the officer led him away quite a number of newsboys and bootblacks followed.

  25. At first it was only a spirit of heightened excitement in the street crowds; and the way men ran to meet the newsboys half-way.

  26. As she drove up-town with the physician, she had in her ears the shouts of newsboys heralding the death of Jefferson Edwardes--and other deaths.

  27. The newsboys came charging with an extra.

  28. Shrill and high, newsboys cry The worst of the city's infamy For one more sordid day.

  29. Shrill and high, newsboys cry The gross of the planet's destiny Through one more sullen gyre.

  30. The clatter of the hoofs of horses had ceased, the rumble of drays carrying their night freights, the shouts of the newsboys making sensation out of rumours made in a newspaper office, had died away.

  31. Newsboys with shrill voices rasped the air with invitations to buy, and everywhere eager, nervous hands held out their half-pennies for the flimsy sensational rags.

  32. Out in the streets, which Ian Stafford travelled with hasty steps, the newsboys were calling: "War declared!

  33. It would be difficult to listen to the newsboys and not hear that.

  34. As he stood there he heard the raucous cries of the newsboys shouting "Extra," and knew that he must go on and face this final crisis.

  35. The newsboys enjoyed the gymnasium and reading-rooms: some of them were drafted into the choir, yet the singing of Te Deums failed somehow to accomplish the miracle of regeneration.

  36. In Faber Street, indeed, an air of suppressed excitement prevailed, newsboys were shouting out extras; but business went on as though nothing had happened to disturb it.

  37. On such a day the Newsboys Lodge is a great resource.

  38. The Superintendent of the Newsboys Lodging House could probably put you on his track.

  39. This stall, to which the newsboys flock as being more "stylish" than most of its kind, is fitted with a cast-iron fireplace holding two large kettles of four or five gallon capacity.

  40. They asked to carry his valise, to black his boots; the newsboys ran by his side, in their eagerness to sell.

  41. He heard the newsboys calling outside, although it was apparently the early dawn.

  42. Their voices made him think of Des Moines, for the reason that Des Moines was the only city in which he had ever heard the newsboys cry.

  43. No wonder the newsboys could shoot craps or play the races.

  44. Newsboys were there, too, yelling in strange accents, "Morning Nip!

  45. Bootblacks, waiters, cooks, newsboys and all sorts of men are always ready and willing to take a chance in the games.

  46. Newsboys in a foggy street on a Saturday night--thus was Dickie's first instinct to define "life in the raw.

  47. The newsboys were putting a good deal of feeling into their crying of special editions when I reached the streets again; but I was not inclined to waste further pence upon the Sunday News' moralizings over the evolution of canards.

  48. Don't tell me how many starving newsboys or how many poor families the cost of this supper would support for a year.

  49. We are objects of suspicion--even the newsboys bite the pennies we give them.

  50. Newsboys were reaping harvests and the news stands could hardly supply the hungry demand.

  51. Now he beheld newsboys running here and there with early editions of the evening papers, their wares disappearing fast as April snows.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "newsboys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.