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Example sentences for "selling papers"

  • One night last week, at the corner of Monroe and Clark Streets, I saw a poor little chap, no older than you, selling papers at eleven o'clock.

  • I should feel obliged to keep on selling papers.

  • I spend a part of my time in selling papers.

  • Luke spent a couple of hours in selling papers.

  • Keep some of the money you make by selling papers, and buy a square meal at an eatin' house.

  • He liked better the time he spent in selling papers, though he reaped no benefit himself.

  • Are you going back to your old business of selling papers?

  • I guess I can get a living by selling papers.

  • Yes, he has been seen in front of the Astor House, selling papers.

  • Dan Mordaunt and his mother live in a poor tenement, and the lad is pluckily trying to make ends meet by selling papers in the streets of New York.

  • We went to the house and demanded that the boys receive care and attention for what they were doing—they were bringing into the house from fifty to sixty cents a day earned by selling papers.

  • At the corner of the post-office is a small stand kept by a woman, who has been engaged in selling papers for a number of years.

  • The more experience the president had with the street-boys, boys who spent most of their time in selling papers or shining shoes, the greater his desire to keep in close personal touch with each boy.

  • All this time Bulldog was busy selling papers, while the new stock Jimmy had obtained was still undiminished.

  • Probably no regular newsboy in all the big city of New York would have thought to try that means of selling papers.

  • Jimmy frequently made quite a little sum by selling papers, particularly when there was a big accident, but he never thought of saving anything against hard luck or the proverbial "rainy day.

  • As for us fellows, we went to selling papers as hard as we could, and would you believe it, before noon we were cleaned out.

  • He didn't go back to selling papers, for he felt that it would hardly be consistent with the position of a classical teacher--the post for which he was about to apply.

  • I don't think you would like to be reduced to selling papers.

  • Suppose you lose your place, shall you go back to selling papers?

  • I am trying to make a living by selling papers, but find it hard work.

  • I've given up selling papers," said Rufus.

  • You didn't make it selling papers in the street.

  • He doubted, also, whether his employer would like to have him spend his time before office hours in selling papers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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