It was a small party, but we took along a commissary wagon, an ambulance, saddle horses, and plenty of Mexicans to do the clerking and coarse handwriting.
Yes, still clerking for the same drover," admitted Straw, glancing at the wounded limb.
Clerking at eleven dollars a week, he took note of the lost opportunities, of the openings for safe enterprise, of the countless leaks in the business.
It was like a bottle of wine to a thirsty hermit, this coming to the active, generous-spending West after thirty-five years in East Falls, the last fifteen of which had been spent in humdrum clerking in the humdrum East Falls general store.
On one occasion, while clerking in Offutt's store, at New Salem, Ill.
At thirteen years of age he commenced clerking for C.
In his youth he attended school in Kentucky and at seventeen years of age was clerking in a store at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
He taught school in Pennsylvania; came to Osceola in 1857; followed clerking and teaching school; was nine years in flouring mill and merchandising; was two years register of deeds, and has filled minor offices.
Once more I was settled quietly down to my old life, clerking in my father's store.
I could not tell a piece of silk from a piece of calico, except by the feeling; so I was excused from clerkingin the store, and sat round the house with green goggles on, and wished I were different from what I was.
He had been clerking in a store and had made application to a Louisville house for a position on the road.
In his letter he said that he was then clerking for Grain and he was going to quit there and start up on his own hook.
And Lisbeth herself had been a nice, sweet-dispositioned, confiding little girl, doing odd jobs to our houses and clerkingin our stores in the Christmas rush.
Until he was fourteen, he remained on the farm with his father, at which time he commenced clerking in a store in Brownville, Jefferson Co.
Here he remained until he was about 18 years of age, being employed at clerking and school teaching, and ever mindful of his widowed mother and fatherless sisters.
But she's got to start business since she can't teach school, and I hate to think of her clerking in a store.
I expect you know this, since you stop here clerking for a few dollars a week.
But, instead, he has neglected the clerking until we can't tell what's going or coming.
He had soon dropped such clerking for seamen's duties, and his rise to mastership had been rapid.
You clerk now in a drug store, you aspire To be a lawyer, if you find yourself Stopped on your way by poverty, the work Of clerking to earn bread, you will break down, And so affect your progeny.
He made but little clerking in the store, Besides his mind was on the law and books.
When Abraham Lincoln was clerking for Denton Offutt, he walked three miles one evening after the store was closed to return a sixpence which had been overpaid.
It was while clerking for Offut that Lincoln performed many of those marvelous feats of strength for which he was noted in his youth, and displayed his wonderful skill as a wrestler.
I glory in a fellow's spunk that can give up a clerking job and strike out for hisself--that's what I do!
Clerking is the breath of the Crown Colony system, and customs what it feeds on.
Besides these clerking errors of omission, there is a constant unavoidable error arising from the so-called smuggling done by the native traders in the hinterland.
When I wasclerking in Missouri, a fellow named Jeff Hankins moved down from Wisconsin and bought a little clearing just outside the town.
I had been clerking for Jennings & White about six weeks, when one day a man registered in the hotel from Searchlight, Nevada.
A beautiful young girl about fifteen years old, who was clerking in the store, brought me a pan of water to wash.
The homeward passage from Australia had hardly been sea-travel in the ordinary sense for me, but rather six weeks of clerking in an office.
Could you do a bit ofclerking in a purser's office?
He was thenclerking and selling goods for Mr. Reuben Sypher.
After four months heavy clerking with this man, he failed in business and sold out his stock of remnants, and I returned to Lancaster to my father.
He proved to be one John Cattermole, a Walworth chemist, to whom George, in his clerking days, had applied occasionally for relief in bodily ailments, and very frequently for assistance in pecuniary difficulties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clerking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
