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Penny-a-liner n. One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Penny-a-liner" Quotes from Famous Books

... transaction, and you delay proceedings by making statements of fact, mixed in with a cheap wit which, I must confess, I find surprising, and so obvious as to be visible even to the blind. You don't talk like an author whose stuff is worth ten cents a word—more like a penny-a-liner, in fact, with whom words are of such small value that no one's the loser if he throws away a whole dictionary. Go out and mix a couple of your best Remsen coolers, and by the time you get back I'll have got to the gist of this royalty statement of yours, which is ...

— R. Holmes & Co. • John Kendrick Bangs

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... sum, to his conscience. What is a sixpenny razor or a nine-shilling sermon? Neither can be expected to cut—not but his sermons would be very good for the use of glorified saints—but, alas! there are none such in the House of Correction. What is the inspiration of a penny-a-liner? I will suppose that one of the hearers is a sailor, who would relish and appreciate a sausage or a lobscouse. Mr — sets blanc mange before him.—Messrs. of the city government give your chaplain two thousand dollars a-year, so that he may reside in the ...

— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

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