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Значения термина catchpenny на английском

Popular print particularly associated with the successful London Broadside printer and publisher James Catnach (1792–1841) and his rival John Pitts (1765–1844), who exploited the innovations of wood-engraving and robust cast-iron.

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This was no catchpenny coquetry; it was a genuine dread of undue familiarity.
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It is the catchpenny politics that has been the curse of our country.
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You know already by the title that it is no more than a catchpenny.
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This is no catchpenny affair, but a valuable lexicon.
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All in all, it was a fine conglomeration of gadgetry and dazzle, a truly high-level catchpenny.
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The head-buttings with authority do have the ring of truth; also the appeal of the catchpenny over the authentic.
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And all this catchpenny stuff (price 2d.)
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There are, I regret to say, many catchpenny places of entertainment, but I cannot conceive that they would entice you.
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Their popularity is not of the catchpenny sort; thoughtful people read them, as well as the great drove of the undiscriminating.
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It's not a regular theatre; only a catchpenny show, got up by a Frenchman, who came from Singapore a fortnight since.
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You have manufacturers contriving tens of thousands of catchpenny devices, storekeepers displaying them, and newspapers and magazines filled up with advertisements of them!
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As we progressed between the tents and the booths with their catchpenny "wheels of fortune," and ring-tossing enticements, the secretary maintained a protesting silence.
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It was the abuses of the system, rather than the system itself, which made him so wrathful on the "vagrant friars preaching their catchpenny sermons."
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Catchpenny capitalists, financial small-fry, petty merchants and money-lenders.
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"The whole affair is a manifest catchpenny!" observes he, scarcely under his breath.
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This was no catchpenny coquetry; it was a genuine dread of undue familiarity.
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