shoeblacks

It's the twenty-first century and we still have maids and waiters and doormen and drivers and guards and caretakers and house painters and tutors and shoeblacks and prostitutes.

Addictions Bill Yarrow 2011

Under the porch of the general post office shoeblacks called and polished.

Ulysses 2003

In France the shoeblacks are all Savoyards, the porters of hotels all Swiss, and in the days of hoops and hair-powder in England, no man could give the regular swing to a sedan-chair but a bog-trotting Irishman.

The Alhambra 2002

Here he is generally surrounded by an admiring throng of hostlers, stable-boys, shoeblacks, and those nameless hangers-on, that infest inns and taverns, and run errands, and do all kind of odd jobs, for the privilege of battening on the drippings of the kitchen and the leakage of the tap-room.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

In France the shoeblacks are all Savoyards, the porters of hotels all Swiss, and in the days of hoops and hair-powder in England, no man could give the regular swing to a sedan-chair but a bog-trotting Irishman.

The Alhambra 2002

It was in this state that Master Tom lay at half-past seven on the morning following the day of his arrival, and from his clean little white bed watched the movements of Bogle (the generic name by which the successive shoeblacks of the School-house were known), as he marched round from bed to bed, collecting the dirty shoes and boots, and depositing clean ones in their places.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

In 1851 the novelties included "Electro-biology," i.e. hypnotism; shoeblacks; electric clocks; false legs,2 invented by Palmer, an American; and the supply of tea to the Navy.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

Under the porch of the general post office shoeblacks called and polished.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Peripatetic shoeblacks pursued pedestrians, and no sensitive gentleman was safe from them merely because he had carefully and well shined his own shoes before he came out.

The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909

They sneered at rebel officers of humble origin as convicts and shoeblacks.

Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence George McKinnon Wrong 1904