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Definition of Handbills
1. handbill [n] - See also: handbill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handbills
Literary usage of Handbills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1875)
"handbills, INSCRIPTIONS, ETC. UNDER this head it is our intention to give some
... We set forth with a great variety of handbills, which seemed almost too ..."
2. Buffalo Medical Journal by Austin Flint (1849)
"handbills for the cure of diseases*.—The following resolutions'of the city
authorities Of New Orleans, relative to the posting of handbills for the sale of ..."
3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"This has thrown all the rebellious part of Philadelphia, with the congress at
their head, into the utmost perturbation. handbills have been distributed to ..."
4. History of the United States of America: Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1913)
"... who had printed the coffin handbills, bearing a real coffin, in which they
proposed carrying him around the city; but Binns had barricaded his premises, ..."
5. A Treatise of the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Horace Gay Wood (1876)
"Criticisms upon handbills and advertisements.—If a man circulates a printed
handbill, or posts it up in a public thoroughfare, or advertises in the public ..."
6. Practical dietary for families, schools, and the labouring classes by Edward Smith (1865)
"handbills FOR DISTRIBUTION AMONGST THE POOR. ALTHOUGH so large a portion of the
foregoing work has been written with a view to aid the poor, I cannot hope ..."
7. The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips by George Lowell Austin (1888)
"Inflammatory handbills. — "The Commercial Gazette " excites the Mobocracy.
— The Ladies assemble at the Hall. — The Opening Exercises. ..."
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