press-engines

Updated: November 17, 2024

Waiting in one of the little "meals-at-all-hours" saloons till he heard the churning of the press-engines, he sallied out and bought of the overloaded carriers the earliest copies of the morning papers, and made himself sure that the foreign news did not disclose any change of the cotton-market.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859