Once again on the pavement, he looked along the street toward up-town beneath the crisp, cold electric lights, and three little bootblacks gathered where he stood and cried "Shine?
Yes, only sellers and bootblacks this time, and I don’t want a good boy in the crowd.
The bully had terrorized the bootblacks and newsboys who pursued their callings in the vicinity of the City Hall, during the previous year, without having been called upon to defend himself against one of his own size and strength.
Instantly both bootblacks were on their knees before him, ready to proceed to business.
An army of bootblacks was assembled in the middle of the street.
Thus, the friendly greetings of a rabble of bootblacks and peons was not to be despised.
On this particular morning it was the schoolmaster, wearing his most indulgent smile, who faced the bootblacks in the street below him.
The myriadbootblacks had grand outfits and stands.
I may add, in passing, that they are quite distinct from the Italian bootblacks and newsboys who are to be found in Chatham Street and the vicinity of the City Hall Park.
Newsboys and bootblacks are their own masters, and, whether their earnings are little or great, reap the benefit of them themselves.
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.
The United States Immigration Commission found[68] that boys employed as bootblacks live in extremely unwholesome quarters.
Careful usage would confine this term to newsboys, peddlers and bootblacks who work independently of any employer.
The city council of Detroit passed an ordinance in 1877 which forbids newsboys and bootblacks to ply their trades in the streets without a permit from the mayor.
Boys engaged in these occupations, together with bootblacks and peddlers, all work under conditions "which bring them into continual temptations to dishonesty and to other offenses.
The sea monster and the man with two bootblacks at each shoe, and just as tall as the shoetops, is not much bigger than Bill Mason to hum.
As he turned the corner he passed a number of bootblacks tossing pennies to the edge of the curbing, the one lodging his penny nearest the edge winning all the other pennies.
Then when the officer led him away quite a number of newsboys and bootblacks followed.
Suddenly there was that cry which, above all others, startles the newsboys and bootblacks of New York.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bootblacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
