"Clerkly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nobody's nigger, give a false account of yourself, and have no home, I hear," interrupts the captain, at the same time ordering a clerkly-looking individual who sits at a desk near an iron railing enclosing a tribune, to make the ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams
... interest in them, and everything pertaining to them. Guly especially, he had learned to feel towards even as a younger brother. Still, with that unaccountable feeling, which sometimes forbids a generous sentiment to betray itself to another, he veiled his earnest friendship under a guise of mere clerkly companionship, rarely giving way to those bursts of tender feeling, which rendered him, in Guly's ...
— The Brother Clerks - A Tale of New-Orleans • Xariffa
... Beaubassin. As for Pierre, in his scanty hours of leisure he was always to be found on the hill, where an old color sergeant, pleased with his intelligence and his ambition to become a soldier of France, was teaching him to read and write. This friendly veteran was, in his comrades' eyes, a marvel of clerkly skill, for in those days the ability to read and write was by no means a universal possession among the soldiers ...
— The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage • Charles G. D. Roberts
... addition, enhancing forever the value of this old copy of Pope's immortal poem, I find the following little note, in Lamb's clerkly ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861 • Various |
