The job of clerk

Usage examples of clerkship.

Richard saw reason to deeply regret that the youth had been put to clerking in the first instance, and not rather trained for some handicraft, clerkships being about the least hopeful of positions for a working-class lad of small parts and pronounced blackguard tendencies.

Spanish inheritance, that leads him to aim at the law or even at a picayune Government clerkship, leaving agriculture, manufacture, engineering or any sort of productive occupation in a sort of tacit disrepute.

Donald that he immediately gave him a clerkship with a large salary, and the promise of a partnership on coming of age, or this worthy gentleman should be an eccentric old bachelor who immediately adopted that wonderful boy and befriended the whole Boyd family.

Perkupp, our principal, the result of which was that he accepted a clerkship in the firm of Job Cleanands and Co.

It was there Charles Lamb passed the novitiate of his long years of clerkship in the East India Company.

When the world rang with the tale of Arctic gold, and the lure of the North gripped the heartstrings of men, Carter Weatherbee threw up his snug clerkship, turned the half of his savings over to his wife, and with the remainder bought an outfit.

No school nor clerkship found he in the place, Now lost to fortune, as before to grace.

General Concepcion's further equipment for the post equalled that of his predecessor, excepting for the facts that he had had no clerkship in the Executive office and that he was understood to be sober.

Bethune's turning out an old friend of the family, or developing into a new one, and taking such a fancy to Donald that he immediately gave him a clerkship with a large salary, and the promise of a partnership on coming of age, or this worthy gentleman should be an eccentric old bachelor who immediately adopted that wonderful boy and befriended the whole Boyd family.

And when 'Arry was told that his clerkship at the drain-pipe manufactory was about to terminate, that he might enter upon a career likely to be more fruitful of distinction, again it was Dick's brotherly kindness.

The clerkship ended, both the sire and son Together did what business could be done.

He'd been associated with Boston Memorial since his clinical clerkships in medical school.

Go to peddlin tinware--go to choppin wood--go to bilin' sope--stuff sassengers--black boots--git a clerkship on sum respectable manure cart--go round as original Swiss Bell Ringers--becum 'origenal and only' Campbell Minstrels--go to lecturin at 50 dollars a nite--imbark in the peanut bizniss--write for the Ledger--saw off your legs and go round givin concerts, with tuchin appeals to a charitable public, printed on your handbills--anything for a honest living, but don't come round here drivin Old Abe crazy by your outrajis cuttings up!

It was his idea that I was at a loose end, and that he would do me a good turn by offering me a clerkship in a drygoods store.

Then Adams ambled back to the White House, ruminatively cracking peanuts and eating them, and wondering what Philip Nordstrom, a conspirator who held a small clerkship in the office of the Comptroller General, would be able to learn on the subject of cholesterol.