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Judged by their clothes and general appearance they might have been gentlemen's servants or superior shop-assistants.

From The Four Faces A Mystery by Le Queux, William

In the opinion of the shop-assistants, he could not go to London too often or stay there too long.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)

It found for itself new priests, who became the spiritual shop-assistants, pious counter-jumpers of the bourgeoisie.

From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich

Before the war they were shop-assistants, cab-drivers, plumbers, lawyers, vaudeville artists.

From The Glory of the Trenches by Dawson, Coningsby

For oh! a King of Men is he— Whom shop-assistants call to "Sign!"

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 by Various