shoeblack

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Examples

• He carefully made détours to escape these, and the shoeblack boys with whom he had been held in high favour.

• Now fight to death for the boy that living you would not have hired as a shoeblack.

• "I'm a moral shoeblack," repeated Grif, with an inclination to punch Dirty Bob's head.

• A shoeblack in the foreground is teaching a poodle to dance; the comical animal's head is decorated with an old peruke.

• Such an event as a shoeblack in South Audley Street was not to be passed by.