shipping-clerk

Don't think you are entitled to any special rights, privileges, and immunities as a literary person, or have any more reason to consider your possible lack of fame as a grievance against the world than has any shipping-clerk or traveling salesman.

Writing Advice from 1916—Part I scottedelman 2008

Hortense, the blond stenographer (engaged to the shipping-clerk), noticed it first.

Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

Hortense, before her marriage to Henry, the shipping-clerk, had been a very pretty, very pert, very devoted little stenographer in the office of the T.A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company.

Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

Henry don't want to be a shipping-clerk all his life.

Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

They'll keep their gum and a looking-glass in the upper right-hand drawer of their typewriter desks, and the old man will call them down eleventy times a day, and they'll marry the shipping-clerk first time he sneaks out from behind a box.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

In a year the shipping-clerk was needed as a salesman, and Richard took his place.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

Ten minutes later he was approached by Jake, the shipping-clerk.

Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905

Mawruss, you can as much make both ends meet on the Atlantic Ocean with fourteen ships as a shipping-clerk with ten children can in New York

Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Montague Glass 1905

So Richard and Frank fell back into the crowd, and were immediately joined by Bretzwartz, the German shipping-clerk.

Richard Dare's Venture Edward Stratemeyer 1896

"I made a failure of it that time," muttered the shipping-clerk, as he slowly arose to his feet.

Richard Dare's Venture Edward Stratemeyer 1896