Clerks

Examples

• He wants no clerks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Is it any wonder that its captains and commanders and officials, nay, even its clerks and common soldiers, came back to England loaded with spoils? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One of his clerks noticing his interest asked what he would give for the bees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then I asked if there were many clerks? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The clerks had not arrived yet, and he beguiled the time by looking out of the staircase window. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At this humorous notion, all the clerks laughed in concert. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• All the middle-aged clerks think their families too large. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There are several grades of lawyers' clerks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I did exactly what he indicated, and waited until the other clerks had departed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I gave him a nickel, and he elbowed his way in; and throwing the money on the counter, the store being filled with women clerks, he said: 'Give me three pairs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The rectors passed to the full front; the parish clerks fell to the extreme rear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She is considered so (I have heard) among the clerks in the Inn, and it is a point more in their way than in mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The clerks were there, but nobody was doing anything. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I wondered how many other clerks there were upstairs, and whether they all claimed to have the same detrimental mastery of their fellow-creatures. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Would I were out of the shade of these infernal bushes, that I might at least see any of St Nicholas's clerks before they spring on my shoulders. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It is customary at Mawson's for the clerks to leave at midday on Saturday. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The clerks' office of Messrs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Even these clerks were laughing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They talked about them over their pints of beer at their public-house clubs to other clerks of a night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom, was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• There was no reply; so Mr. Pickwick sat down unbidden, and listened to the loud ticking of the clock and the murmured conversation of the clerks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When the day arrived, my very carpet-bag was an object of veneration to the stipendiary clerks, to whom the house at Norwood was a sacred mystery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The old grey managers, the old grey clerks, the doddering old pensioners, he looked at them, and removed them as so much lumber. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Sir,' said the two clerks, appearing at the bottom of the stairs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But yonder thicket is a choice chapel for the Clerks of Saint Nicholas. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The clerks grow expert from habit. Jane Austen. Emma.

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