How To Use Shoeblack In A Sentence
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Two seemingly harmless and careless shoeblacks turn out to be gloomy crooks with a dirty plan to rob a bank courier.
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Who would have thought such a nobleman vood turn shoeblack?
The Fatal Boots
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Unemployment is high and many people support themselves with badly paid work in the ‘informal sector’ as shoeblacks or street vendors.
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He goes to picture-galleries, and is more ignorant about Art than a French shoeblack.
The Book of Snobs
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I never heard a shoeblack called a boot-finisher before, but I think the euphemism was allowable in a young lady who wishes to exalt the commercial status of her intended.
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Yes -- he's a--" I was going to say "shoeblack," but I stopped myself in time, and said, "a little boy.
My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life
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We see shoeblacks and lamplighters with their tools and utensils; and milkmaids, fruit sellers and prostitutes touting their wares.
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One's senses were assaulted by news vendors, shoeblacks, quack doctors and the like and their specimens of cajolery.
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Shoeblack-boys tumbled over each other for the privilege of blacking his honour's boots; nosegay-women and flying fruiterers plied Mr. Gumbo with their wares; piemen, pads, tramps, strollers of every variety, hung round the battle-ground.
The Virginians
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There were pictures of a pauper cabin in Ireland, from which it was pretended I came; others in which I was represented as a lacquey and shoeblack.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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A moment before he had been cursing and swearing at me, and speaking to me as if I had been his shoeblack.
The Great Hoggarty Diamond
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Oh, to miss the sight of her because I was wet through and bedraggled, and had not so much as five sous to give to a shoeblack for removing the least little spot of mud from my boot!
The Magic Skin
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We see shoeblacks and lamplighters with their tools and utensils; and milkmaids, fruit sellers and prostitutes touting their wares.
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Louis could imagine hurling the shoes out the window, but instead, he cleaned them each in turn, smearing a rag in shoeblack and buffing them to a shine.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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There is a boy, perhaps fifteen, pushing a wheelbarrow of small items that are for sale: a single roll of toilet paper, a neat metal disk containing shoeblack, and other soft clear plastic wrappers around fist-sized packages of nuts.
Between Expectations
