4188 examples of clerking in sentences

You seen how only clerking in them was nearly your ruinationthe little gambling-room-in-the-back kind that you pick out.

At fifteen, Brown-Séquard, with the physical appearance of an Indian Creole, was clerking in a colonial store by day, and composing poetry, romances and plays by night.

Just imagine to yourself, my dear, when he finishes his course, they will give him some rank or other, such as they give to any priest's son clerking in a government office!

I am very tired of clerking it, but have no remedy.

I am doing a rushing business and I want you to do my clerking.

It is that at every sort of occupation, clerking, shop-keeping, railway work, automobile driving, agricultural work, police work, they have been found efficient beyond precedent and intelligent beyond precedent.

Most of them were more alive than they had ever been since first they started clerking.

After she's goneand the five thousand, if I get it backI suppose he'll drop down and down, and end by clerking it somewhere."

The book was only moderately successful, but attracted sufficient attention to justify Zola in abandoning clerking, and taking seriously to literature.

The point was covered by providing that the chief clerk of the Department should take charge "whenever the principal officer shall be removed from office by the President."

SEE Page, Arthur W. FLETCHER, J. S. Murder of the lawyer's clerk.

Murder of the lawyer's clerk.

My nephew left me two persons to attend me; one of them was his servant, and the other clerk to the purser, who engaged to be mine.

" Mr. Daily jabbed his thumb against a white bell-push, and a clerk appeared.

"And then some," said the clerk.

However, the clerk of the weather has refrained from such an insult, contenting himself with sending a breeze down upon us fresh from the "Roof of the World," and laden with the chilly moisture of the snows.

[Illustration: THE TRAPPER] The Hauler-In is now Clerking and trying to Hold Out enough to give him another Start.

But if your money's tied up in the suddenmillionaire business, you'll have to keep right on clerking.

After ten years of clerking and secretarying they find that they are up against a dead wall.

She has finished her course at the parochial school and she's clerking in a downtown store.

"NoI'm a solicitor's clerk," I replied.

Mr. Moneylaws, who was senior clerk to Mr. Lindsey, solicitor, of Berwick, was a very promising young man of great ability, and had recently been much before the public eye as a witness in connection with the mysterious murders of John Phillips and Abel Crone, which are still attracting so much attention.

The justice of the peace was made secretary of government, his clerk became secretary of finance, another clerk was made secretary of justice, and the lessee of a cockpit secretary of state.

Shubert was an American lad, who had got tired of clerking it in an apothecary's shop, and had enlisted from a desire for adventure, as you might guess from his larkish countenance.

Bob was deeply impressed by her principles, and, commenting on them, said: "Jim, if all Wall Street had a code similar to Beulah Sands's to hew to in their gambles, ours would be a fairer and more manly game, and many of the multi-millionaires would be clerking, while a lot of the hand-to-mouth traders would come downtown in a new auto every day in the week.

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