Clerkly

It was-it was a clerkly sort of book, and sent him off into a near-doze when he tried to read it. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

He was one of Charles’s clerkly colleagues in Leadenhall Street. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Write to him, as I cannot, that we come instantly to attend his commands, and do it clerkly. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Tim Linkinwater condescended, after much entreaty and brow – beating, to accept a share in the house; but he could never be prevailed upon to suffer the publication of his name as a partner, and always persisted in the punctual and regular discharge of his clerkly duties. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Temple, something of a clerkly monkish atmosphere, which public offices of law have not disturbed, and even legal firms have failed to scare away. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So she strove with herself, and became of better heart, and set herself strongly to the learning of the clerkly lore; she gathered her wits together, and no longer looked for every day and every hour to bring about the return of the Champions, nor blamed the day and the hour because they failed therein, and in all wise she strove to get through the day unworn by vain longing. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Cathedral towers to walk with a clerkly bearing on the grass – plot — and was introduced to my new master, Doctor Strong. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He approaches a clerkly-looking man, sitting under the corner arch, and makes his bargain. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mr Boffin having been several times in communication with this clerkly essence, both on its own ground and at the Bower, had no difficulty in identifying it when he saw it up in its dusty eyrie. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He was at this time a significant figure — tall, lean, inquisitorial, clerkly — with nice, smooth, closely-cropped side whiskers coming to almost the lower lobes of his ears. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He was the same thin, pleasant, alert, rather agreeable soul that he had been in the heyday of his clerkly prosperity — a little paler now, but not otherwise changed. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had a habit of rubbing his hands in a clerkly fashion, of wrinkling his brows and scratching the back of his head at times, as though something he was about to say had cost him great thought and was of the utmost importance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There was something about this man which made his clerkly occupation seem incongruous. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)

Henry was doing little or nothing here (St. Louis), and I sent him to our clerk to work his way for a trip, measuring wood-piles, counting coal-boxes, and doing other clerkly duties, which he performed satisfactorily. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It was — it was a clerkly sort of book, and sent him off into a near-doze when he tried to read it. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Her face was streaked now with the tears that poured from her eyes; her eyes blurred and burned, and she wanted to get the pony-whip and beat these horrible men out of the house, out of her house, and drive them back to whatever clerkly hell they had come from. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

In the end, it was Jarmin, unlikely Jarmin, clerkly proprietor of the shop who bought their plundered silks, who found him there, whimpering like a whipped dog. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

Jarmin, a perfectly ordinary, clerkly sort of fellow, had an assistant to help him, and when he saw Lyle entering the front door, he left the customer he was attending to the assistant and ushered them both into the rear of the shop. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

Some [ugly ass] comes [up to you] and flirts with you, what do you say? "[get outta here] you creepy ass clerkly" ❋ The K Krew (2008)