10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOPBOY»
Discover the use of
shopboy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
shopboy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kabuki Plays on Stage: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905
SHOPBOY: Anybody home? Gift delivery! 269 SANKICHI (Opening the door): Gift
delivery? This? (He takes the keg. ) Speak of the devil! Who sent this? SHOPBOY
: A pretty lady. S A N K I C H I : A pretty lady? Hang on a minute, willya?
James R. Brandon, Samuel L. Leiter, 2003
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Masterpieces of Kabuki: Eighteen Plays on Stage
Along the hanamichi enters the SHOPBOY carning a large, handled hrg of sahe.
He is ahout ten years old and dressed in a short, hlach worh himono over tight
lrggings, covered hy a full red apeon, with a tea towel tuched in his ohi at the rear
.
James R. Brandon, Samuel L. Leiter, 2004
3
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From ...
Awano, after he'd left the shopboy and, with a feeling of being pursued, had come
to the trolley line, hailed a passing cab and went straight to Banda's house. He
had a strangely lonely feeling. The other day, seeing the crestfallen look of that ...
J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel, 2013
4
Best Little Witch-House in Arkham: Weird Tales Out of Space ...
“These are darling . I could wear them during my act . And look at this belt .” She
removed a long strip of shiny pinkness from a chain . “What do you think it's made
of?” An obese, perfumed shopboy appeared so quickly at her side that she ...
5
An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750-1850
(to the SHOPBOY) Look after our sandals, boy. SHOPBOY: Of course, sir. (
BENTEN and NANGO enter the shop, remove their sandals, and kneel.)
YOKURO: How fine the weather is today, miss. (to the SHOPBOY) Bring the
customers some ...
Jones, Sumie, Watanabe, Kenji, 2013
CHAPTER. III. THE. SHOPBOY. When Pratt arrived at Eldrick & Pascoe's
office at his usual hour ofninenextmorning,he found thesenior partner already
there. Andwithhimwas a young man whom the clerk at once set down as Mr.
Bartle ...
Joseph Smith Fletcher, 1930
We must here apologize for Mr. Quiddy 's calling his shopboy — a shopboy. This
was no singular vulgarism on the part of our hero, for in those days it was a
common practice to designate such a functionary by neither more nor less than
that ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, 1841
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The New Monthly Magazine
We must here apologize for Mr. Quiddy's calling his shopboy — a shopboy. This
was no singular vulgarism on the part of our hero, for in those days it was a
common practice to designate such a functionary by neither more nor less than
that ...
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Phineas Quiddy; or, sheer industry
... and was the less agreeable to him forasmuch as it occasioned a positive and
visible disburse'ment. “I have not got such a thing in the house,” said Quiddy ; “
but—come, I'll send my shopboy out on purpose to buy one for you—eh, Mr.
John POOLE (Dramatist.), 1859
... sobbin; and Miss Betsy began yowling like a cat in a gitter ; and pore missis
cried, too — tears is so remarkable in- feckshus. " Perhaps, mamma," wimpered
out she, " Fredric is a shopboy, and don't like me to know that he is not a
gentleman.
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Thomas Carlyle, 1838
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOPBOY»
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