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Example sentences for "chief clerk"

  • Yes, a great piece of news; another tinsmith has been appointed second chief clerk.

  • The former spoke so slowly and hesitatingly that it occasionally almost seemed as if he stammered; he was Monsieur Caravan, chief clerk in the Admiralty.

  • I would not, however, let every official created have a chief clerk and a stenographer.

  • A station agent could take the place of a section foreman, an operator the place of a chief clerk, and so on indefinitely.

  • When de Caën had completed his trading at Three Rivers he sailed again for France, leaving Pont-Gravé as chief clerk at Quebec, and Le Baillif as underclerk at Tadousac.

  • Hallock will stay on as chief clerk, and, naturally, he is anxious to stand well with his new boss.

  • He told me that you had been Mr. Cumberley's chief clerk, and that since Cumberley's resignation you have been acting superintendent of the Red Butte Western.

  • He was Cumberley's chief clerk, and long before Cumberley resigned he was the real superintendent of the Red Butte Western in everything but the title, and the place on the pay-roll.

  • And he introduced him, "Chief Clerk Josef K.

  • Chief clerk, there's something else I'd like to mention to you.

  • On some railroads he is hardly more than a chief clerk to the general manager, a rubber-stamp whose signature goes mechanically upon papers bound upwards from division superintendent to general manager.

  • Most of the divisions of the Harriman lines had an assistant superintendent, engaged mainly in outside duties, with an office near the superintendent's, presided over by a chief clerk.

  • That veteran ticket-puncher recalled that in older days conductors had been dismissed for allowing operators to sign their names to telegraphic train orders; perhaps the letter of dismissal was signed by the superintendent's chief clerk.

  • We traced Brady out too, and found him a chief clerk in a house on Washington Street, in which his brother was a partner.

  • Instantly that I heard the name Roberts, I knew it must be the attorney's chief clerk, for he had spoken of this clerk as having been longest in his employ, and you can well understand how I became at once all ears.

  • First part occupied by Chief Clerk seated in front of table covered with papers.

  • Owing to a discovered intrigue and the risk of having too much power in the hands of one man, I have sent Ibrahim Ruckdi to Malia as chief clerk, and Gugliz Bey of Malia is made my chief clerk.

  • You may depend upon it, I will do my best for you”—to chief clerk W.

  • I fear that I have not made clear to you just how valuable a man I have trained into a chief clerk.

  • My chief clerk is an unusual man, and is very considerate and diplomatic.

  • From actual experience as a chief clerk I know that it is a trying position.

  • Charles Hargus, chief clerk, was not far behind his chief in winning qualities.

  • All public documents and printed papers sent by the Speaker or Chief Clerk of the Legislative Council or Legislative Assembly, to any Member of either of the said branches of the Legislature of Canada, during the recess of Parliament.

  • Sends away his lad could be working on the place getting in winter fuel and carting hay with that horse of his, but keeps on his storeman--chief clerk, he calls him.

  • And what does he want with a chief clerk, then?

  • You'll know me yourself, no doubt; I'm Aronsen's chief clerk.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another subject; become famous; chief clerk; chief engineer; chief good; chief magistrate; chief mate; chief mourner; chief named; chief officer; chief part; chief pilot; chief priest; chief town; chief trader; chiefly composed; chiefly known; could rely; direct knowledge; further said; leaving him; speak them; strong iron; vary from; weak solution; wounded soldier