Lexicographical Neighbors of Potboiling
Literary usage of Potboiling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Art and Man: Comparative Art Studies by Edwin Swift Balch (1918)
"These persons are spoken of as "art patrons," and this art work, done for pay,
is descriptively termed by artists " potboiling. ..."
2. Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes (1909)
"As I have said, he had a large family to support, and he sought work of the
potboiling order; but in this necessary labor he never sacrificed his ideal of ..."
3. Ireland's Literary Renaissance by Ernest Augustus Boyd (1922)
"Much of it is frankly potboiling; some of it is doubtless intended as a contribution
to literature. For obvious reasons, only the more significant novelists ..."
4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1897)
"Between the years 1820 and 1823, Thomas Carlyle did much "potboiling" work
for »Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia," in the shape of biographical essaye. ..."
5. Essays on French Novelists by George Saintsbury (1891)
"The Buveur d'Eau is a devotee of art or letters who expressly and absolutely
refuses to descend to potboiling, even of an honourable, much more of a dubious ..."
6. Essays on French Novelists by George Saintsbury (1891)
"The Buveur d'Eau is a devotee of art or letters who expressly and absolutely
refuses to descend to potboiling, even of an honourable, much more of a dubious ..."
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