Sentence examples similar to scissorbill from inspiring English sources

His youth revolved round stories heard at his parents' lodging house at Wells and Grand in Chicago; tales from dishwashers ("pearl-divers"), strike-breakers ("scissorbills"), clerks and sanitation workers, the toothless radical Ed Sprague with his diet of bread and milk and Big Ole, his lobby nemesis, who banged the drum for J.P. Morgan.