| 单词 | subscription-hunting |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubscription-hunting b. Objective, as subscription-hunter, subscription-hunting n. and adj., etc. ΚΠ 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. p. xv If it is his untoward Fortune ever to descend so low..as to commence Subscription-Hunter. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. x An Essay upon the Comi-Tragical History of Subscription-Hunting. 1823 Christian Guardian Sept. 339/1 Nor does it absolutely demonstrate real success, when our hearers commence teachers, or missionary, or Bible subscription collectors. 1898 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 134 Energetic subscription-hunting ladies. 1906 Liberty Rev. Sept. 122 He asks them to hand their spare cash to the Labour Unions, so that he and his subscription-grabbing tribe may have the squandering of it. 1935 H. H. Bashford Lodgings for Twelve 188 The more importunate of the subscription-hunters. 1990 J. M. Robert Class, Sect & Party xii. 298 The ideological perspectives which were ‘sold’ through the successful subscription-hunting societies were the ones which guided the public actions of the middle classes. < as lemmas |
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