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Finally, at exactly two o'clock, the forms were locked, placed upon the bed of the press, and McGaffey, a sour-faced individual whose chief recommendation was his ability as a pressman, began to make ready for the "run."
I had tasted their equality that day of debauch in Paris, but obviously the sensation could not permanently be maintained upon spirits. Perhaps I might obtain a post in a bank; I might become a shop-assistant, bag-man, even a pressman.
Thornden laid aside his tea-cup. "I am a newspaper man, Mr. Thornden," said the young man, his eye roving about the room, visualizing everything, from the slices of lemon to the brilliant eyes of the valet. "Ah! a pressman. What will you be wanting to see me about, sir?" neither hostile nor friendly. "Do you intend to remain long in America incog?" "Incog!" Mr.
New York was the only home he recognized, since, in addition to being "Misther Robert's" place of residence, it also connected him with the one tie in life beyond his devotion to his master and his master's family. This was an only son who had risen by degrees to be a pressman in a local printing-office and, which was more to the point, had become a political power in his particular ward.
Most instructive of them all, Ascensius has bequeathed to posterity the lively and accurate representation, down to every nail and screw, of the press in which the great works of the sixteenth century were printed, with the brawny pressman pulling his proof.
It would have taken eight or nine hours a day's journey. Mr. Pickwick left Eatanswill about one or two, for the lunch was going on, and got to Bury in time for dinner, which, had he left Yarmouth, would have taken him to the small hours of the morning. No one was such a thorough "Pressman" as was "Boz," or threw himself with such ardour into his profession.
Of gentle blood on the mother's side, Lucien was a Frank, even down to the high-arched instep. David had inherited the physique of his father the pressman and the flat foot of the Gael.
The Press looked out the window. Dad commenced to butcher his gums with the pocket-knife, and threatened to put the fire out with blood and saliva. "Let's have a look at the tooth, old man," the pressman said, approaching Dad. Dad submitted. "Pooh! I'll take that out in one act!"...To Joe "Got a good strong piece of string?"
He glanced around with his large Southern eyes and saw that there was a piano in the room. "Would he play to us, do you think?" he said, rather tentatively. "I am not asking as a pressman but as a keen musician." "Claude!" Charmian said. "Mr. Van Brinen asks if you will play us a little bit of the opera." Claude got up. "Why not?" he said. He spoke firmly.
"Correct by Earl Dexter, America's foremost crook! But the real facts have never got into print. I am the only pressman who knows them, and I have good reason for keeping my knowledge to myself! But although, to the best of my knowledge, the accursed slipper is in the hands of Hassan and Company, I have been watched since I left Euston, and on my way to 'Uplands' my life was attempted!"
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