"Placard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such Elizabethan memories may receive a check or a chill when the traveller comes, as he sometimes does, to the outskirts of one of these strange hamlets of new frame-houses, and is confronted with a placard inscribed in enormous letters, 'Watch Us Grow.' He can always imagine that he sees the timbers swelling before his eyes like pumpkins in some super-tropical summer. But he may have formed the conviction that no such proclamation could be found outside Shakespeare's town. And indeed there is ...
— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton
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... little room in the Admiralty, going to consult a Blue book, stopped for a moment by the window and observed the placard tied round the lamp-post. ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
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... pointed beard and his ruffles of lace, leaned picturesquely back in his chair, which rested against the wall. He was smoking a very black briar-root pipe, and perhaps his Majesty enjoyed the weed all the more that there was just above his head, tacked to the wall, a large placard containing the words, "No smoking allowed in this room, or in any other part of ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
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... win with. Square issues, square dealing, square men! We'll placard every fence and barn door in the district. A woodcut will cost next to nothing, and I'll run the posters off ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther
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... to be read on a large placard in front of the Green Box, which offered the crowd the following narrative ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo
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