"Expressage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... children, though it must be confessed that the tendency among the girls was to strive for effect and not for detail. On the evening before the dolls were to be shipped a doll show was regularly held, at which two cents admittance was charged (stamps accepted) to pay the expressage. ...
— When Patty Went to College • Jean Webster
... revenue from the volume of advertising." In other words, the average "great daily" is simply a mercenary advertising graft. It may "produce revenue," but seldom profit from circulation, for the price to agents is frequently below the cost of white paper and expressage. The subscription price is usually placed below the profit line, and extra inducements offered in the way of "premiums." Somehow, a circulation, bona fide or fake, must be worked up as an excuse for elongating the business man's ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... a series of books on woods illustrated by actual and neatly mounted specimens, showing in each case three distinct views of the grain. The work is issued in parts, each representing twenty-five species, and selling with text at $5, expressage prepaid; the mounted specimens alone at 25 cts. per species or twenty-five in neat box for $4. He has also a line of specimens prepared for the stereopticon and another for the microscope. They are very useful and sell at 50 cts. per species ...
— Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; From Seed to Leaf • Jane H. Newell
... once declared bitterly that "no one but a professional quack can live in America." Poverty paralyzed his energies, and in 1852, old and discouraged he retired to his native town of Kingston, New York, so poor that he had to borrow twenty-five cents to pay the expressage of his trunk. Obtaining a bed at the local hotel, he was found dead in it the next morning, ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5) • John Marshall
... out things?" asked the banker, apparently much interested that Bob had taken the trouble to find out the rate and figure the cost of the expressage ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson |
