"Bootblack" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... A little bootblack and a water-boy held the places now, and occasionally begged for custom from any one ...
— Rafael in Italy - A Geographical Reader • Etta Blaisdell McDonald
... your chambermaid, bellboy, hotel clerk, taxi driver, dressmaker, saleslady, cook and laundress, hairdresser, waiter and bootblack may all and each be a so-called divorcee. (For convenience sake, I speak of them all as "divorcees," although Webster defines a "divorcee" as a man or woman who has already obtained a divorce.) What is more, a ...
— Reno - A Book of Short Stories and Information • Lilyan Stratton
... being very black and growing so that a lock of it often falls down the middle of my forehead is a coincidence. The malicious and insinuating story that I used to go under another name arose, no doubt, from my having been a bootblack in my early days, and having let my customers shorten my name into Matt Black. But, as soon as I graduated from manual labor, I resumed my rightful name and have borne it—I think I may say without vanity—in ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips |
