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James Cook was a Yorkshire shopboy turned Royal Navy non-commissioned officer who safely commanded the tubby Endeavour around the world: also a man of great ability, a 'genius' according to Lord Colville .

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

James Cook was a Yorkshire shopboy turned Royal Navy non-commissioned officer who safely commanded the tubby Endeavour around the world: also a man of great ability, a 'genius' according to Lord Colville .

The voyage of? 2007

The fast shopboy whose love of fine company and high living had brought him to this pass, had shaken off the first shame that was on him, and listened eagerly to the narratives of successful vice that fell so glibly from the lips of his older companions.

For the term of his natural life 2004

He had been once a poor shopboy, but he wandered to

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

All things considered, Lenny had no doubt in his mind but that the stranger was a shopboy or 'prentice from the town of Thorndyke; and the notorious repute of that town, coupled with this presumption, made it probable that Lenny now saw before him one of the midnight desecrators of the stocks.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

Now, it is well known that there is nothing more antipathetic to your peasant-boy than your shopboy.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

Then I turned and told the shopboy he had beaten to hand him the bundle of clothes, and said to him: Here are all the clothes I gave you; take with them your discharge, and go where you like.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

Then I turned and told the shopboy he had beaten to hand him the bundle of clothes, and said to him: “Here are all the clothes I gave you; take with them your discharge, and go where you like.

XCIII 1909

A terrible old woman, with landlady written large all over her face and person, opened the door, and, without paying the slightest attention to me, began to rate the shopboy in no measured terms.

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Reid, Stuart J 1905

I breathe an atmosphere of sweetness, like a confectioner’s shopboy.

Act III 1903