paragraphist
- a variation of paragrapher.
Example Sentences
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The curtain would fall on his Oedipus, with its searing scream of self-revelation; after intermission he would mince on as Mr. Puff, the giddy paragraphist of Sheridan's The Critic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He arrays himself in court dress at the palaces of kings, receives honorary degrees at Universities, and is kept before the public by the newspaper paragraphist, without wincing or pretending to dislike it.
From The Rise of the Democracy by Clayton, Joseph
I have not been a paragraphist for nothing: the sale was a success.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various
Though without any very lofty aims, or high qualifications, he was an agreeable and sprightly paragraphist, possessed of an unfailing good-humor, and a large fund of general information.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
The "paragraphist," according to Willis, was lodging in the most crowded part of Holborn, in an uncarpeted and bleak-looking room, with a deal table, two or three chairs, and a few books.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
