shopwalkers

How many of the wretched shivering army of clerks and shopwalkers, who in some ways are actually worse off than a miner or a dock-hand, think of themselves as proletarians?

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

They would forget the customers and shopwalkers and department buyers and everything, and become just happy wanderers in a world of pleasant breezes and song birds and shady trees.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003

How many of the wretched shivering army of clerks and shopwalkers, who in some ways are actually worse off than a miner or a dock-hand, think of themselves as proletarians?

The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

Small trades-folk, male and female shopwalkers, better class artisans, lower middle-class women worn with household cares, occasional young folk in search of a sensation -- these were the impressions which the audience conveyed to the trained observation of Malone.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

Small trades-folk, male and female shopwalkers, better class artisans, lower middle-class women worn with household cares, occasional young folk in search of a sensation -- these were the impressions which the audience conveyed to the trained observation of Malone.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

They would forget the customers and shopwalkers and department buyers and everything, and become just happy wanderers in a world of pleasant breezes and song birds and shady trees.

The History of Mr. Polly 1906

She had vaguely heard that shopwalkers in England could make or break the salespeople.

Winnie Childs The Shop Girl 1901

The din increased, though shopwalkers said less and less, and the chances seemed in favour of the insurrection becoming a riot.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

The early-rising customers were beginning to invade the galleries, the cashiers in their confessional-boxes were settling themselves in their seats, faultless shopwalkers were giving a final hitch to their lovely collars, and the rank-and-file were preparing to receive cavalry.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

She was divine, adorable, marvellous, and far beyond the deserts of any man; but she had not shaken hands with him, and she had treated him as she might have treated one of the shopwalkers.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899