157 Verbs to Use for the Word clerk

In the mornin' I rigged up, went down stairs, and asked the clerk if he would be kind enough to pint out to me where I might see CHARLEY DANY.

The princely merchant, in his counting-room, involuntarily experiences the softening, humanizing influence of the hour, and, in tones tremulous with unwonted emotion, privately directs his Chief-Clerk to tell all the other clerks, that, on this night of all the round year, they may, before leaving the store at 10 o'clock, take almost any article from that slightly damaged auction-stock down in the front cellar, at actual cost-price.

Just now they sent us a clerk from court.

" "Well, what did you answer, Peter?" said his companion in increasing uneasiness; "did you put him off?" "Off! to be sure I diddo you think I wanted a barber's clerk for a son-in-law?

Here Miss Dalrymple indited rapidly a most voluminous message, paid the clerk in a businesslike manner, and, unmindful of his amazed expression as he read what she had written, tranquilly re-entered the carriage.

She's one of the children at the Orphans' Home," replied the clerk in a lower tone.

He called his clerk and dictated a letter to Canterbury, to urge patience till his return, when he would consider their complaint and find a way out of the difficulty.

He stocks shelves, decks counters, and employs clerks, packers, salesmen, cash-boys, buyers, and department heads.

Those Moranges lived in everlasting dread of seeing their daughter marry a needy petty clerk; succumbing to that irresistible fever which, in a democracy ravaged by political equality and economic inequality, impels every one to climb higher up the social ladder.

Stepping back to the desk, she addressed the clerk again, this time with a marked distinctness: "I have been very ill, I know, and not always quite myself.

He found the clerk at the desk.

He looked out, and saw Armsworth's clerk.

He then ordered them to go down below to another cabin which he had beneath his own for a store-cabin, and he ordered the clerk to go down also with them, and he summoned the master and pilot and ordered them below also, telling them to go and sign, as the clerk was there.

I appoint you clerk.

A chair of crimson velvet had been placed for the lord president, John Bradshaw, serjeant-at-law; the others, to the number of sixty-six, ranged themselves on either side, on benches covered with scarlet; at the feet of the president sat two clerks at a table on which lay the sword and the mace; and directly opposite stood a chair intended for the king.

The manager summoned a clerk; the clerk indicated a sequence of entries, amongst which Allerdyke at once noticed the name of Dr. Lydenberg.

Besides these, there are chosen a town-clerk, a town-treasurer, a school-committee, assessors of taxes, overseers of the poor, constables, surveyors of highways, fence-viewers, and other officers.

They kept a clerk to record their names and their proceedings, had a scavenger of their own, and had balls and assemblies among themselves.'

"Jock!" cried the clerk.

"He looks like Napoleon," whispered the head clerk to his neighbor.

To these, however, should be added my Christian clerks, my domestics, and even my cook, all of whom I dressed and armed as soldiers to assist me in what I expected to be a losing game, and which, in fact, had results the most disastrous in the world for my personal interests.

Signior Immerito, forasmuch as we have made a double trial of theethe one of your learning, the other of your eruditionit is expedient also, in the next place, to give you a few exhortations, considering the greatest clerks are not the wisest men.

"Be sworn, Mr. Walsh," directed the clerk; and the filling of the jury box in the memorable case of People versus Serafino was begun.

Buntline immediately obtained a supply of pens, ink and paper, and then engaged all the hotel clerks as penmen.

"Never," thought Hilda as she followed the clerk, in a whirl of horrible misgivings, "never have I done anything as mad as this before!

157 Verbs to Use for the Word  clerk