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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They looked down on Willis Woodford the bank-clerk, and his anxious babycentric wife, the silent Lyman ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Various (N/A)
In 1903 this prohibition to foreigners was disputed by a British bank-clerk who arrived in Manila for a foreign bank. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)
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. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
On a shelf and in a wooden bowl were packages of bank-notes and rolls of gold that he had seen the evening when the bank-clerk came. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
She disliked putting names together, but her thoughts flew off to a Scotch town, where a boy with a merry face and dark twinkling eyes, was working his hardest as a bank-clerk. ❋ Mabel Mackintosh (N/A)
Their incomes, in fact, are usually such as a well-paid bank-clerk or dry-goods salesman would despise. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
Quite a decent lady in Russia, the wife of a bank-clerk or petty official, but now up against it, the great it of revolution. ❋ Stephen Graham (1929)
For the space of about twenty-five minutes Psmith sat in silence, concentrated on his ledger, the picture of the model bank-clerk. ❋ Unknown (1928)
He could not say exactly that it was sharp practice on Owen's part to accept his invitation to call, and, having called, to continue calling long enough to make the present deplorable situation possible; but he felt that it would have been in better taste for the young man to have effaced himself and behaved more like a bank-clerk and less like an heir. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Thus, he has sent me into the City to do the hard-working, bank-clerk act, but at the same time he is allowing me just as large an allowance as he would have given me if I had gone to the 'Varsity. ❋ Unknown (1928)
They looked down on Willis Woodford the bank-clerk, and his anxious babycentric wife, the silent Lyman Casses, the slangy traveling man, and the rest of Mrs. Gurrey's unenlightened guests. ❋ Unknown (1920)
As for Browning, the bank-clerk, he was vexed that his son should show so little caution as to load himself up with an invalid wife, and he cut off the allowance, declaring that if a man was old enough to marry, he was also old enough to care for himself. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)
Browning's father was a bank-clerk; and Robert Browning, the Third, author of “Paracelsus,” could have secured his father's place in the Bank of England, if he had had ambitions. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)
