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printer's devil

NOUN
  1. an apprentice in a printing establishment

How To Use printer's devil In A Sentence

  • He had sold ladies 'underwear, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias door to door; he had been a short order cook, elevator operator, puddler in a steel mill, seaman, carnival shill, bulldozer operator, printer's devil and legman for a radio station. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
  • Where's that little pale printer's devil, the one they call the gambler's ghost? Down the Mother Lode
  • Is this the man who would have equality amongst all his fellow-creatures, and who calls a compositor a printer's devil? Tales and Novels — Volume 01
  • He had sold ladies 'underwear, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias door to door; he had been a short order cook, elevator operator, puddler in a steel mill, seaman, carnival shill, bulldozer operator, printer's devil and legman for a radio station. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
  • College of Emporia for a year; worked a year as a printer's devil; learned something of the printer's trade; went to school for another year, working in the afternoons and Saturdays at the printer's case; became a reporter on the _Emporia News_; later went to the State Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
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