"Yes -- he's a--" I was going to say "shoeblack," but I stopped myself in time, and said, "a little boy.". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
Who would have thought such a nobleman vood turn shoeblack?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fatal Boots] Reference
So he granted the prince's prayer to be made shoeblack to the princess. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
As soon as the water is up to my eyes, she may go and be happy, and forget her poor shoeblack. '. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
CHAPTER I. BEN BRUSTLES was only a poor shoeblack-boy who cleaned boots -- ay, and even shoes, for his daily bread. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891] Reference
In the debates of the Convention, the king was alluded to as Citizen Capet, and on the street the shoeblack was called. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
"They told me it was a shoeblack," said the princess. From Wordnik.com. [The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories] Reference
But how rarely nowadays do we see this peripatetic shoeblack!. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Gentleman] Reference
The shoeblack consented, and a price was fixed upon and paid. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Animal Sagacity] Reference
Who would have thought such a nobleman vood turn shoeblack?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fatal Boots] Reference
Why, even the little shoeblack was more to him now than I was. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
"I should like to have been Shakespeare's shoeblack," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Thackeray] Reference
It was the voice of a small shoeblack, whose eyes looked wistful. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Trawler] Reference
I'll get hold of a shoeblack, and make him come for a morning or two. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Archer and Other Tales] Reference
Violet would marry a shoeblack out of the streets if she were so minded. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
Near at hand was seated a shoeblack, to whom he went to have his boots repolished. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Animal Sagacity] Reference
Now fight to death for the boy that living you would not have hired as a shoeblack. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference
Michael Flinn, the Shoreditch shoeblack, was up all night, caring for the sick boys. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
(O unhygienic shoeblack!), dulling them to make them brighter with his strip of linen. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Gentleman] Reference
"Doubleday," he said, when that youth entered, "we want you to bring here a shoeblack.". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
"For four years he worked as a shoeblack and ran errands for Trinity College students.". From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
One of the staff was an extremely handsome and lively shoeblack, picked up in St. Giles '. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Ruskin] Reference
I knew a little shoeblack once who used to follow his profession at the corner of Westminster Bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Pilgrimage] Reference
A man constantly so engaged ought to be a very noble gentleman, even though he may be the son of a shoeblack. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
So, I daresay, you could drop down into a navigator, or a shoeblack, or something in that way, to-morrow, and think it pleasant. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference
One boy described a blackguard as ` ` one who has been a shoeblack, '' while another thought he was ` ` a man dressed in black. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Blunders] Reference
He had to live like a gentleman upon this, and to give four guineas a year to the laundress, four to his barber, and two to his shoeblack. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
"'They told me it was a shoeblack,' said the princess. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
'shoeblack to Lord Aberdeen' if it would serve the country. From Wordnik.com. [Lord John Russell] Reference
A filthy shoe-store on Third Avenue for a place as porter, shoeblack, anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents A Story for Lovers] Reference
Billy, the shoeblack, and say I want to see him. ". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
Europe undertake to make one single shoeblack happy! ". From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
It's all very well for a shoeblack, but it won't do for an office-boy. ". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
I can submit to be ordered off by a shoeblack, but the son of a convict is -- ". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
If I did not count on you, dear good doctor, I should have turned shoeblack by this time. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.] Reference
As soon as the water is up to my eyes, she may go and be happy, and forget her poor shoeblack. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories] Reference
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