But I do not think that that bootblack always prospered.
The bootblack now had constant custom, and his circumstances began rapidly to improve.
One gentleman who had his boots muddied regularly every day, once questioned the bootblack very closely, for he saw that the dog belonged to him, and the man was obliged to confess that he had taught the dog the trick.
I could pick up almost any bootblackand make a good business man of him.
But you can't pick up almost any boy and make a good bootblack of him.
I have no doubt in the world but that this little bootblack is he.
Rising to his full height, the bootblack threw off his outer rags, and revealed the figure of the Boy Chief of the Pigeon Feet.
The bootblack drew a tin putty-blower from his pocket, took unerring aim, and nailed in a single shot the minute hand to the dial.
The officer retired; the bootblackhad finished one boot.
The little bootblack looked up--the general was absorbed in his correspondence.
Military pickets should not differ from other pickets" said thebootblack modestly.
Not until nearly nightfall was the well-disposed bootblack willing to cease his efforts in this particular direction.
If Carrots had done as he wished, every newsboy and bootblack in the lower portion of the city would have known that he and Teddy had gone regularly into business; but the latter was adverse to proclaiming the news so soon.
Well, seems as if you was puttin' on a good deal of style for a feller that hasn't got money enough to buy the outfit for the bootblack trade.
This is what comes of bein' brought up in the country," the bootblack muttered to himself, regretfully.
During all his experience in the city, he had never known a newsboy or a bootblack to appeal to the authorities for protection, and Teddy's method of taking care of himself rather startled him.
In two seconds the bootblack was on his knees and hard at work.
The mother consented, and the honestbootblack had after that a good home.
At last a little dirty bootblack stepped up and touched the spring and the water gushed out.
It was as if every news-vender and bootblack had suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth, although it was not yet so late but that considerable business might have been done.
That's a big step-up for a bootblackto make, an' I wonder how 'Lish Davis will like it?
Sidenote: An Italian] An Italian bootblack who already owns several bootblacking establishments in this country, was trained to a beggar's life in Italy, and ran away.
Did it ever occur to you that you could do something directly for the evangelization of the Greek or Italian fruit vender or bootblack or laborer?
The next day the same thing occurred, and again and again, till, at last, the gentleman suspected that the bootblack had taught the dog this trick, in order by that means to get customers.
He couldn't understand how the New York bootblack had been metamorphosed into the well-dressed and gentlemanly-looking young clerk.
I ain't sure I'd know myself, it I'd gone to sleep a bootblack and waked up as I am now.
It was some time before another customer appeared, and meanwhile another bootblackcame up.
Let me tell you how it happened that you, the son of a wealthy father, and the heir to great wealth, are now a poor bootblack in the streets of New York, with no prospects before you but a life of labor.
I am expected to recognize a New York bootblack as my nephew!
The bootblack had not finished the first shoe when a policeman hoisted himself into the other chair.
Once having turned the corner, he slackened his gait and climbed into an empty chair in the bootblack stand that stood in front of the Café Roma.
I didn't know but Ad was the bootblackat the Capitol.
Tell me this, Hal: Is there a bootblack at the Capitol in Washington?
Still he was hardly the sort of boy a merchant would be likely to select as an office boy, and but for a lucky chance Sam would have been compelled to remain a bootblack or newsboy.
The boy referred to by Sam was a bootblack named Terry O'Brien--a name which Sam conveniently forgot when questioned by Julia, as he was anxious to have her think that he had moved in good society in New York.
I was clerk in a store on Pearl Street," said Sam, who did not care to mention his previous experience as a bootblack and newsboy.
A bootblack and a banker are "equal" in the right to vote, but they are not "uniform" in function or culture.
They gave the waiter or the barber or the bootblackan equal voice in government with themselves.
Under the influence of spring the streets were again becoming muddy, and his duties asbootblack increased daily.
Dennis cleaned and polished away in full view of Mr. Ludolph, who began to realize with vexation that his man-of-all-work would have little time for the duties of the store if he were installed general bootblack of the establishment.
Instantly the bootblack was on his knees, and signed for Edgar to put his foot on the box.
Do you think we would have a bootblack living in our house?
I would, Jimmy, only I lent 'em both to a bootblack of my acquaintance who's going to attend a ball on Fifth Avenue to-night.
Sometimes I've thought I'd have to be a bootblack always.
Good morning, Mike," said Rodney, as the bootblackwas brushing off a customer.
The ragged and dirty suit which he wore as bootblack were the best he had.
His headquarters is the County Courthouse bootblack stand.
The discourses that follow were delivered by him from his rostrum, thebootblack stand in the County Court-house, at various times in the last half-dozen years.
When Molly saw Mary Stewart pose in this picture at the dress rehearsal, she could not help recalling the story of the bootblack father.
I am the official bootblack of Queen's, and I make sometimes one-fifty a week at it.
Molly had become official bootblack at Queen's Cottage at ten cents a pair when they were not muddy, and fifteen cents when they were.
Her father was bursting with new diplomatic secrets recently extracted from his bootblack adviser.
The day dragged on, bringing at its close England's entrance into the war; and the Carlton bootblack was a prophet not without honor in a certain Texas heart.
She was unaware that it was the bootblack at the Carlton he was now quoting.
This is easily explained by the fact that he had been talking with the bootblack at the Carlton Hotel.
Influenced by this representation, thebootblack drew out a five-cent piece, and said: "Pitch one over then.
He could work at times, though he did not like it, and once pursued the vocation of a bootblack for several months with fair success.
The black bootblack asked the white bootblack to black his, the black bootblack’s black boot with blacking.
One was a black bootblack and the other a white bootblack, and both had black boots, as well as blacking and blacking brushes.
Whoever is left without a chair after this method of playing must rapidly tell the bootblack story.
But I'm out of the bootblack business for good and all; so what are you going to do about it?
And now you needn't ever be a newsboy or bootblack again, Dan.
He felt that to acknowledge a bootblack past and a sausage shop future would be a shock to Miss Polly that would break off friendly relations forever.
The bootblack hastily rubbed his brush in the mud on the sidewalk and daubed it on one of Jim's boots, quite effacing the shine.
When the young bootblack had finished polishing his shoes, he waited for his customary fee.
He was not a bootblack then," retorted Hector, "nor would he be now but for your mean spite.
A bootblack is a nice playmate," said Guy, with his usual sneer.
When Professor Puffer had disappeared from the scene he crossed to where the bootblack was standing.
Bernard was feeling for a penny to pay the young bootblack when he heard a snort of triumph, and looking up, he saw Professor Puffer bearing down upon him.
I don't want any of his money," said thebootblack contemptuously.
The gondolier prizes and decorates his stick just as a bootblack tends his stand: only, where the bootblack has coppers and bits of tinsel, the Venetian has pure gold coins dating back to the time of the Doges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bootblack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
