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  • Kit hopped off her bike and retrieved a cell from the bag with the records and whispered, I swiped it from that shop-girl.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Kit hopped off her bike and retrieved a cell from the bag with the records and whispered, I swiped it from that shop-girl.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • In this regard, it has often been claimed that Crawford simply played variations on the theme of the poor shop-girl who climbs (and sometimes claws) her way to the top, achieving material success by sexual boldness or sheer force of will.

    Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News Donald Spoto 2010

  • In this regard, it has often been claimed that Crawford simply played variations on the theme of the poor shop-girl who climbs (and sometimes claws) her way to the top, achieving material success by sexual boldness or sheer force of will.

    Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News Donald Spoto 2010

  • Kit hopped off her bike and retrieved a cell from the bag with the records and whispered, I swiped it from that shop-girl.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Kit hopped off her bike and retrieved a cell from the bag with the records and whispered, I swiped it from that shop-girl.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Meanwhile, as one writer put it, she “tried, just as keenly as any pretty shop-girl in a Los Angeles drugstore, to attract the attention of the man who could make her a star.”

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • I had sunk to the level of the gutter, by the side of courtesans, opera-dancers, mere creatures of instinct; even the vulgar shop-girl or humble seamstress might look down on me.

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • Saleswomen, usually plain-featured, but vivacious, waylaid the feminine foot passenger with cunning importunities, after the fashion of market-women, and using much the same language; a shop-girl, who made free use of her eyes and tongue, sat outside on

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • After reading the instructions, she thought it wise to copy the lines intended for Lucien on a sheet of letter-paper; then she went down to Madame Nourrisson, to whom she talked while a little shop-girl went to fetch a cab from the Boulevard des Italiens.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

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