Court helper

Usage examples of clerk.

Clerk Advowson at his reading-desk below called the number of the first hymn and the service began.

Henry was strong enough only six years after the death of Thomas to win control over a vast amount of important property by insisting that questions of advowson should be tried in the secular courts, and that the murderers of clerks should be punished by the common law.

But Sylvia Height was still there, and she sat on a stool next to a clerk arranging an ambulance transport from a nursing home.

So he is going to be articled to the Roxham lawyers, Foster and Son, or rather Foster and Bellamy, for young Bellamy, who is a lawyer by profession, came here this morning, not to speak about you, but on a message from the firm to say that he is now a junior partner, and that they will be very happy to take George as an articled clerk.

Having blotted the last copy, Brassey rang for two clerks to witness the signatures.

Mary, he told himself, knew decidedly more of whoring than of clerking, and as the mistress of a brothel as well as his bookkeeper she would be tied to him for ever.

Unlike the clerk, he was direct, brusk, and looked everyone in the eye.

It is the story, told in great detail and in a style intensely saturated with phonetic and rhythmical expressiveness, of a government clerk who goes mad, obsessed by the idea that a fellow clerk has usurped his identity.

I have a companion, I may venture to enlarge it, but for today, you may try your hand at housewifery and clerking.

The Itekkillykx were a fractious litigious bunch, but the Gurns were the best managed of any on Rallen, high standards of courtesy and competence demanded of all, from the most minor clerks to the High Justicer herself.

Bonnie was a manicurist in the barbershop of the Peabody Hotel, where her husband worked as the night desk clerk.

John whether he knew anything of a certain Margari who was soliciting the post of a clerk in the district court and gave as his reference the Lapussa family in whose service he had been for some years.

Agent Martingale had apparently finished asking questions and was now talking at length, for the admissions clerk had her mouth shut and her eyes open.

Senate clerks entered the chamber, deserted now save for Scaurus and Merula, who had fallen behind.

The business prospered well enough to eventually allow them to open a millinery and even to employ a clerk.