Lexicographical Neighbors of Pencillers
Literary usage of Pencillers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"The defeat of the favourite could not have brought much grist to the mill of the
Pencillers. 1891. Lie. Viet. ..."
2. Words by an Eyewitness: The Struggle in Natal by Maurice Harold Grant (1902)
"So the pencillers revenged themselves by portraying what might have been had the
two armies but worn baggy breeches and ..."
3. English Merchants: Memoirs in Illustration of the Progress of British Commerce by Henry Richard Fox Bourne (1886)
"They were finished afterwards by female pencillers who, ... The women employed
as pencillers easily earned £2 a week, and those were the wages of a good ..."
4. The Textile Colourist (1876)
"The writer is very brief in his remarks upon pencilling, as he seems to think it
quite hopeless to expect that English pencillers can do anything better ..."
5. Men of Mark in the World of Sport in New Zealand by Joseph Chadwick (1906)
"Mr. Champion, who is one of our best-known pencillers and horse owners, was born
in Geelong, Victoria, and came to New Zealand in 1887. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"... "bookies" or "pencillers," as they are called, whose business it is to lay
the odds, adopt another plan. They establish their principal domicile at some ..."
7. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"... men 40/. boys 5/. fome to 100/. calico printers ID liv. to 25 liv. a week,
none under 10 liv. women pencillers 2of. a day, pat- tern drawers to 150 ..."
8. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1889)
"Or it may be that the bookmen, ' bookies ' or ' pencillers,' as they are called,
whose business it is to lay the odds, adopt another plan. ..."
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