bank-clerk

The drabness of everyday life so badly plagues a meek bank-clerk in Elizabeth Bowen's "Dead Mabelle" that he can find meaning only in cinema-going, cultivating an obsession with a screen star whose death in real life forces him into the dilemma of having to choose between life and art.

A More Literary Amour 2009

They looked down on Willis Woodford the bank-clerk, and his anxious babycentric wife, the silent Lyman

Main Street 2004

Georgina, dumpier and still brusquer than Marina, the eldest son, a bank-clerk who was something of a dandy and did not waste civility on little girls; and lastly there were two boys, slightly younger than Laura, black-haired, pug-nosed, pugnacious little creatures, who stood in awe of their father, and were all the wilder when not under his eye.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

Yes, there he stood, meek, apologetic, and smiling — the fast-living bank-clerk, the darling of society, and the secret assassin — Mr Bartholomew Jarper.

Madame Midas 2003

As schoolboy, as bank-clerk, as teacher, as worker in many ways, he has unemployed leisure in the hours of daylight, -- not so many as he should have, perhaps, but still many hours in the course of the month.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

In 1903 this prohibition to foreigners was disputed by a British bank-clerk who arrived in Manila for a foreign bank.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

The facts of the case are briefly as follows: Mr. Van Ness, whose relations with the Wharton family had been extremely intimate for many years, was a bank-clerk, but during the spring and early summer of 1871, besides attending to his regular duties, was employed in settling a large estate.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

The book meant money, that was all he knew; so he slipped it into his loin-cloth as had been his rather distressing habit when handed a bundle of notes by the bank-clerk who, with his co-workers, had never tired of gazing at the gigantic creature in white shorts, crimson tunic, huge turban and rattling scimitar.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

Their incomes, in fact, are usually such as a well-paid bank-clerk or dry-goods salesman would despise.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

Destiny, however, as if eager at last to work in her favor, throws in her way a handsome young Swiss, Rudolf Engemann by name, a bank-clerk, with whom she falls deeply in love.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various