shop-boy

Contenson, who thought this demand on the part of the shop-boy rather strange, went downstairs and startled him by saying:

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

A shop-boy fetched the coach, and a few minutes later Europe, or, to be rid of the name under which she had served Esther,

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

And yet every shop-boy and every shop-girl in Keswick had been so saying for the last twelvemonth, and rumours which had hitherto been confined to

Lady Anna 2004

If the shop-boy were to get suspicious and begin to think over the transaction about the bread, and the florin of which the woman got the change?

Hunger 2003

I regretted my attack upon the poor shop-boy, wept, clutched myself by the throat to punish myself for my miserable trick, and behaved like a lunatic.

Hunger 2003

The shop-boy is struck by the idea that I want to have a chat as

Hunger 2003

I could hear that I said good-night, and that the shop-boy replied to me.

Hunger 2003

Yesterday, when I told him I must go at something right off, he said, 'Anything honest, Tom, and don't forget that your father began the world as a shop-boy.'

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

Our old apothecary, now degraded by the overshadowing influence of his grandson's character to a position not much above that of a shop-boy, stood behind the counter with a face sad and distrustful, and yet with an odd kind of fitful excitement in it, as if he would have liked to enjoy this new prosperity, had he dared.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

One Simmons, a dapper, perky draper in the High Street, wanted a shop-boy, and Mrs. Armstrong was for asking the place for Paul There was not a grain of ambition in the household, and the melancholy fact was that there was no money to bind Paul apprentice anywhere.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray