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- noun Plural form of
clerkling .
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Examples
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And yet, almost all these clerklings have an old mother lodging on some fifth floor with whom they share their pittance of thirty or forty francs a month.
Le Colonel Chabert 2007
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And yet, almost all these clerklings have an old mother lodging on some fifth floor with whom they share their pittance of thirty or forty francs a month.
Le Colonel Chabert 2007
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I did him the injustice of supposing that he felt himself to be himself, and _hors concours_ so far as the general body of clerklings was concerned; but he had other reasons.
On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller
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They were clerklings, not lords of love and life, but all the more easily did they yield to longing for happiness.
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Even out of this mass of clerklings emerged two or three who were interesting: Sam Weintraub, a young, active, red-headed, slim-waisted
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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And yet, almost all these clerklings have an old mother lodging on some fifth floor with whom they share their pittance of thirty or forty francs a month.
Colonel Chabert Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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