clerkly

• Kris sat opposite her, with his neighbor a thin, clerkly-looking sort with ink-stained fingers, whose sole interest was the contents of the stoneware platter in front of him. —  Arrow's Fall
• There's a great deal more about who shall become what rank of angelic spirit, and what each kind does, but I have a suspicion that all of that is a clerkly conceit. —  Storm Breaking
• There is yet, in the Temple, something of a clerkly monkish atmosphere, which public offices of law have not disturbed, and even legal firms have failed to scare away. —  Barnaby Rudge
• "And close the window; it is growing cold There were but three lines between the "Mr. Haward" and "Audrey;" the writing was stiff and clerkly, the words very simple,--a child's asking of a favor. —  Audrey
• There were but three lines between the "Mr. Haward" and "Audrey;" the writing was stiff and clerkly, the words very simple, -- a child's asking of —  Audrey

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