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Definition of Logrollers
1. logroller [n] - See also: logroller
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logrollers
Literary usage of Logrollers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1895)
"No one can lay any of this popularity to the logrollers or to anybody's flair,
for Mr. Davis is quite the reverse of popular with most of his literary ..."
2. Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century: Contributions Towards a by William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas James Wise (1896)
"... or Folk-lorist, except from courtiers or journalistic logrollers, who infest
the back-stairs of palaces or the back-stairs of newspaper offices—and I ..."
3. Story of My Life: An Account of what I Have Thought and Said and Done in My by William Taylor, John Clark Ridpath (1895)
"Some of the women are helping to prepare the supper for the logrollers, and the
rest are at home." " Well, sisters, I can't come all the way here to Red ..."
4. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal by Corinne Comstock Weston (1995)
"... and logrollers had created the Newcastle program with which Gladstone was so
closely associated; and if the lords were to be rendered ..."
5. Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of by Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, Pennsylvania, John Agg (1839)
"... be converted from one of deliberation, into mere logrollers, and against such
a danger, the report of the minority of the committee had provided guards. ..."
6. Around the Capital with Uncle Hank: Recorded Together with Many Pictures by Thomas Fleming (1902)
""Why, them logs th' logrollers use." "Oh, I see!" ejaculated Harry, with a smile.
"I think you'll be apt to find them in the lobby—among the lobbyists. ..."
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