Paper-selling lads

Usage examples of newsboys.

This unusual conduct attracted the attention of his cronies, and a number of newsboys gathered about him trying to find out the reason of his strange idleness.

The marked papers had been delivered before the newsboys did their rounds and no one had seen who delivered them.

I don’t know what time the papers get to the shops in Cambridge, but not a great deal before five, I shouldn’t think, and there couldn’t have been much time for anyone to buy twenty or so papers in Cambridge and deliver them, folded and marked, to addresses all over Newmarket, twenty miles away, before the newsboys here started on their rounds.

He was straining his ears to understand the headlines the distant newsboys were shouting.

He and Edge were atop his rockaway, Daphne and Sunday riding inside, and, when they got as far as the boulevard de Courcelles, they found ragamuffin newsboys running about in unusual excitement, waving their newspapers and shouting, "Querelle à Prusse!

They were jabbering excitedly, as the newsboys ran among them, wildly waving their newspapers and barking more loudly than ever: "Guerre!

Crowds poured into the streets, to seize the still-wet newspapers flung by the newsboys bawling "Grande victoire!

They do say--I do not vouch for it--but they do say that men sometimes print a vast edition of a paper, with a ferociously seditious article in it, distribute it quickly among the newsboys, and clear out till the Government's indignation cools.

The newsboys were, however, using other means to cry their papers, and I knew relief.