bootblack

How to use bootblack in a sentence

• The mountain lad, though but half comprehending the bootblack's meaning, was aware that he was being made game of.

  Ralph Granger's Fortunes | William Perry Brown

• From the Cittadella School there was a bootblack whom my father knew, and the prefect gave him a diploma.

  Cuore (Heart) | Edmondo De Amicis

• The chair of the bootblack had been splintered into kindling wood.

  The Sheriff's Son | William MacLeod Raine

• At the junction of Wall and New Streets he came suddenly upon a large-sized bootblack, whose face looked familiar.

  Helping Himself | Horatio Alger

• Opposite the tent of the bootblack he halted and started back again, where the path lay clear in the moonlight.

  On Guard | Upton Sinclair