bootblack

• Or maybe Lady Glinda had an opening for a bootblack or a son. —  SON OF A WITCH
• He can be a bootblack, a servant, a barber, perhaps a teamster. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• A charitable bootblack, who slept on the same straw with us there, lent my lover one of his boxes, a brush and a pot of blacking three quarters empty. —  Dieux ont soif. English
• He had acquired habits when living on the Bowery long ago as a bootblack that could not be easily shaken off; though any one formerly acquainted with Jimmy would never have recognized him nowadays It would be worth coming all the way up here if we could run across something like that, wouldn't it now?" —  Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet
• Though only a bootblack, he has an honest independence of feeling, in which any one is justified who works, however humbly, for his support Old Jacob is, moreover, a miser, so far as he can be. —  Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success

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