Again Carrots had visions of the green news-stand and brass-covered bootblacking outfit, and from this reverie he was awakened when Teddy prepared the evening meal by unwrapping the papers in which the food had been brought.
This covers neither bootblacking nor the delivery of newspapers.
The labor supply furnished by this system for peddling and bootblacking consists generally of children from twelve to seventeen years of age.
The report calls attention to the greater tendency of messengers to immorality, and remarks that it is easy to see a connection between bootblacking and the offenses in which bootblacks lead.
Sidenote: An Italian] An Italian bootblack who already owns several bootblackingestablishments in this country, was trained to a beggar's life in Italy, and ran away.
They have fairly monopolized for a time certain lines into which they entered--as the small fruit trade, the bootblacking business, and other pursuits.
Two of the boys are working; talking in low tones to their customers; and the third is drowsing in the corner, behind the two-foot square bootblacking establishment.
All is quiet for a few minutes except for the snipping of the scissors, and then the coon who belongs to the bootblacking establishment shuffles through the door and puts a record on the Victrola in the corner.
Among the crowd were many members of the Moral Boys' Bootblacking Reformatory, who stood and stared with the rest, wondering what heroic deed their Moral President had performed.
The operations of the Moral Bootblacking Boys' Reformatory, of which I am President, are well known.
Exhortations, moral lessons, pious sermons, would often be given by well-meaning men at the meetings of the Moral Bootblacking Boys' Reformatory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bootblacking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
