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At nine-thirty-five there came the main army of clerks, only they were not clerks, but "clarks" -- very impressive gentlemen with gloves, spats, sticks, silk hats and sack coats.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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PRC is known as clarks shoes "black pearl" of the world supermodel Naomi Campbell on the 5th International Court of Justice in The Hague to testify.
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After the arrival of the head "clarks" and stenographers at nine-forty-five, there ensued fifteen minutes of guarded conversation in front of the offices.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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Looking back as I reached the corner, I saw four "clarks" watching me intently from the office windows, and above the roar and jangle of machinery was borne on the summer breeze the sound of sacred song -- shrill feminine voices:
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Elbert Hubbard 1885
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That child should be wearing start-rite or clarks shoes.
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Sxybritguy10: thankin sainsbury clarks & lorry drivers ...
Danielle Crittenden: The President's Secret IMs: Bush & Blair Blast the Cheeky Mullahs 2008
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Google: starjewel unemployment starjewel | weblog ... company in pittsburgh listening to: the clarks - another happy ending feeling:
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And he's just a delightful character -- called his editors the clarks, British pronunciation for clerks.
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But are all the people mad -- prastes and clarks, payrents and childher?
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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Thus, an English merchant will talk to you about his _clarks_, an American about his _clurks_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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