Which preposition to use with clerks
I, JONATHAN JERUSALEM, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that the following change of name has been made by the County Court of this County, viz.:
Mr. Nottmuch, (to Clerk in Library.)
I was vaccinated severely, while clerk to a substitute broker at Troy, N. Y. Q. Are you a graduate of any College.
He then set his clerks at copying for him, and at the end of four hours, he jumped up from the table, and enthusiastically shouted: "Hurrah for 'The Scouts of the Plains!'
Mr. Mattingford, who had been Mr. Holymead's clerk for nearly twenty years, seemed to realise that the visit was important, though as a married man he knew that a meeting between husband and wife in town was usually so commonplace as to verge on boredom for the husband.
Nay, and you be so brisk, I'll call the Clerk from his Office.
It is advisable, when people are travelling as a party, that they should have their luggage all weighed together, presenting the whole of the tickets at the same time; this not only frequently saves expense, but, as the number of persons is marked by the luggage clerk on their baggage receipt, it is a guarantee that each has bought a ticket, which saves trouble if one should happen to be lost.
" Madame Lepailleur, who never took her eyes from her son, but remained in admiration before him as formerly before her husband, now exclaimed with an air of rapture: "Yes, yes, he has a place as a clerk with Maitre Rousselet, the attorney.
Women were trained as bookkeepers and clerks under Napoleon I; he wanted men as soldiers, and so decreed women should go into business.
There are 4 Deputy Superintendents at £270-15-£330; 13 Assistant Superintendents at £210-10-£260; and 53 Principal Clerks at £150-10-£200.
Buntline immediately obtained a supply of pens, ink and paper, and then engaged all the hotel clerks as penmen.
"This done, we returned in the same order to the Three Cranes, and from thence, in our coaches, to dinner at Drapers' Hall; where my Lord Mayor, aldermen, gentlemen of Guildhall, and guests invited, dined at one table, and we, the sheriff's, at the head of another, with the Court of Assistance of each of our companies: and the Clerks of the Exchequer by themselves at another table.
Like many humble musicians his music is his life and he adds handsomely to his salary as a clerk by playing at dances and little concerts, and by giving lessons in the evening.
He looked, as he stood there, more like a dandified city clerk than the desperate criminal suggested by Hill's confession.
Dom Manuel talked with the clerk about this and that.
Except for an intelligent-looking clerk behind the counter the place was empty.
I told him the clergyman was a Frenchman, and knew not a word of English, but that I would act as clerk between them.
Glancing about undecidedly, wondering if it would do to take the clerk into her confidence, wishing she had some means of reaching Mr. Fleck and asking his advice, she spied in a drug-store just across the street a telephone booth.
Vide Lord Palmerston's report of the Clerks in the war office (Debates, this morning's Times) by which it appears in 20 years, as many Clerks have been coughd and catarrhd out of it into their freer graves.
This was the position until December 1911, when a tentative scheme was introduced in the Money Order Department to hand over all the simpler duties to a new class of Assistant Women Clerks with an eight-hour day and a wage of 18s.
Cipher telegrams had nearly driven the clerk out of his wits, for of all crazy occupations the taking of a cipher message, when you are without the key to the cipher, is the worst.
All our ordinary intellectual opinions are worth a bit of a row: I remember during the Boer War fighting an Imperialist clerk outside the Queen's Hall, and giving and receiving a bloody nose; but I did not think it one of the incidents that produce the psychological effect of the Roman amphitheatre or the stake at Smithfield.
'We have heard nothing about it, Mr. Babington,' said the old clerk over the counter.
It used to be the invariable custom in storesit is so still in a fewto lay off many clerks during the dull seasons.
He became a clerk through competitive examination and was gradually promoted.