Bone-grubber

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who scavenges for waste materials such as bones and rags to sell. obsolete

    "More than half of our modern scribes, and particularly the dramatic portion of them, are little better than literary bone-'''grubbers, pickers and stealers of unconsidered trifles,—men who, having no brains, live by spinning the brains of others, and give themselves credt for originality."

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bone-pickerrag-and-bone man

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"More than half of our modern scribes, and particularly the dramatic portion of them, are little better than literary bone-'''grubbers, pickers and stealers of unconsidered trifles,—men who, having no brains, live by spinning the brains of others, and give themselves credt for originality."

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