10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOPWALKER»
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shopwalker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
shopwalker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Delphi Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)
'You'll probably find them over there, madam,' said the shopwalker, pointing. '
Aren't yousure?'she asked tartly.'I don't want to struggle across thereand then
findthey're somewhere else.' The shopwalker turnedhis back on her. 'Well,Inever!
2
Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes
'You'll probably find them over there, madam,' said the shopwalker, pointing. '
Aren't you sure?' she asked tartly. 'I don't want to struggle across there and then
find they're somewhere else.' The shopwalker turned his back on her. 'Well, I
never!
He read that no one shall enter his bedroom in business hours, take a swap line
without signing a shopwalker, go to the lavatory without signing a shopwalker,
cheek a customer or buyer or shopwalker, lose a leaf from a check book, sleep
out ...
The shopwalker intimated that he had no idea what she could do. His face
showed quite plainly that it was no business of his, and also that it was more than
a little strange for a young unmarried lady to be shopping in London without her ...
5
In the Wake of Violence: Image & Social Reform
Another brilliantly composed cartoon by Alfred Pearce showed a shopwalker, the
term of that time for a shop overseer, standing before his store, which has two
broken plate-glass windows. The shopwalker directs a stalwart bobby toward a ...
Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, 2008
6
Dream of Fair to Middling Women
The salesgirl gave way before a greater than she: the shopwalker. Falling at once
, like all his frockcoated, lecherous, pommaded and impotent colleagues, for the
mighty Smeraldina-Rima, he abounded in informations. "But it is well known" he ...
Samuel Beckett, Eoin O'Brien, Edith Fournier, 1993
7
Fancies and Goodnights:
“Get back to your counters,” said the shopwalker, perceiving the excitement. “
What is it now, Miller, for heaven's sake?” “Only something that proves something
,” said Miller with an air of righteousness, handing the shopwalker the fatal page.
ship. shopwalker. Ship [jipl 1 noun large boat for carrying passengers and cargo
on the sea; cargo ship = ship which carries cargo, not passengers; container ship
= ship made specially to carry containers; ship chandler = person who supplies ...
Peter Hodgson Collin, 1998
W“ this mv Martyrdom finished; and we away, bowed out of with _Congees by the
Smirking Shopwalker rubbin his . Ёгшп ,_as obsequious as could be; and so ome
mighty sqrlollsl', aviui;` aid ourl £5. 10s. 2d ;_ and the next Time I take out my ...
10
Shadow of the Swastika: A Radio-drama, in Six Parts of the ...
shopwalker: Yes, ma'am. What'll it be for you, ma'am? woman: [cheerful] I want . .
. shopwalker: Got a special line of blackout material to-day. Everybody in Warsaw
wants blackout material. woman: No, I don't want any blackout material.
Albert Lancaster Lloyd, Igor Vinogradoff, 1940
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOPWALKER»
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Lady Mairi Bury
She said later that she thought him "a nondescript person", and she described Himmler as like "a shopwalker in Harrods". At the outbreak of the Second World ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 10»
