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  • Not one man in a million, including office-boys, is to be found in the magazine offices, who is able properly to revise by elimination the work of a professional author.

    "I do not enjoy the suggestion that you have a better ear or eye for how I want my words to read than I do." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Mr. Guilfogle was essentially an honest fellow, harshened by The Job; a well-satisfied victim, with the imagination clean gone out of him, so that he took follow-up letters and the celerity of office-boys as the only serious things in the world.

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • He thought of telephoning about leases, of cajoling men he hated, of making business calls and waiting in dirty anterooms — hat on knee, yawning at fly-specked calendars, being polite to office-boys.

    Babbit 2004

  • Our nostrils are familiarized with its stove-heated atmosphere, our eyes with the yellow-billed walls, the dirty floor, the greasy furniture, the bundles of papers, the chimney-piece covered with bottles and glasses and bits of bread and cheese; and our ears are assailed by the quips and jokes and puns of the clerks and office-boys who were his companions for a time.

    Balzac 2003

  • In the streets one door after another is opened; blinds are raised, office-boys are sweeping floors and dusting counters.

    Shallow Soil 2003

  • To them, the sight of a fat, middle-aged gentleman bounding up the adjoining staircase provided unexpected entertainment, so that Smiley was hastened on his way by the jeers of office-boys and the laughter of typists.

    A Murder of Quality Le Carre, John, 1931- 1962

  • However, I am doubtful about employing essayists as office-boys.

    The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various

  • Our nostrils are familiarized with its stove-heated atmosphere, our eyes with the yellow-billed walls, the dirty floor, the greasy furniture, the bundles of papers, the chimney-piece covered with bottles and glasses and bits of bread and cheese; and our ears are assailed by the quips and jokes and puns of the clerks and office-boys who were his companions for a time.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • At 12.30 sharp (the business lunch hour) a crowd surged in; bankers, brokers, dry goods merchants, clerks, messengers, and office-boys, straight from the Quick

    The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

  • I have no opinion of office-boys I'll confess to you, young sir.

    The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various

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