stick-in-hand

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Would Snatchett and Brothers cast an eye on their compatriot's scrawled and blotted quires, when they had just run the pen-knife through a new "Dombey," for which fifty compositors waited stick-in-hand, and which the million expected with insatiable greediness?

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.