law stationer
Britishnoun
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a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
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a person who makes handwritten copies of legal documents
Example Sentences
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Her mother's brother, gentlemen, failed for eight hundred pounds, as a law stationer.'
From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles
His father was a poor solicitor’s clerk, who also had a small business as a law stationer, and his mother had been a nursemaid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
The dry old law stationer opened wide his watery eyes.
From Tommy and Co. by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Nothing in fiction can excel his legal characters in, for instance, “Bleak House,”—his Mr. Tulkinghorn, Mr. Guppy, the clerk, and Mr. Snagsby, the law stationer.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
His step was leisurely, and once he stopped to light his pipe, peering with interest into the shop window of a law stationer.
From Fire-Tongue by Rohmer, Sax
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