shoeblack

"They told me it was a shoeblack," said the princess.

So he granted the prince's prayer to be made shoeblack to the princess.

This , could be done only if one escaped being fagged as a shoeblack.

Seeing only the shoeblack, he drew his sword.

Expelled from school and considered incorrigible for drawing in his textbooks, Alice went to work as a shoeblack.

As soon as the water is up to my eyes, she may go and be happy, and forget her poor shoeblack."

These moral escapists need to be reminded that the shoeblack and the sovereign are equally responsible when wrongdoing stalks the land.

The shoeblack was again put in requisition to bring five or six strong fellows from the neighbouring public-house; and the last battle of the campaign opened.

By the locksmith's advice and aid, he was established in business as a shoeblack, and opened shop under an archway near the Horse Guards.

The Infinite Shoeblack by Norman MacOwan.

The shoeblack and the sovereign : reflections on ethics and foreign policy, St Martin's Press, New York, 1988.

His round face was lined, and the thick black eyebrows which jutted out of his brow like small brushes were drawn down, giving him a quaintly fierce appearance, like a truculent shoeblack.

Thomas Carlyle's "History of the French Revolution" lays blame for the sorry state of France on everyone "in all provinces of life, as Shoeblack or as Sovereign Lord."

He was a promoter of the reformatory at Blackley, and worked on behalf of the Boys' Refuge, the Shoeblack Brigade, and the ragged schools of Manchester and Salford.

THE SHOEBLACK AND THE SOVEREIGN Reflections on Ethics and Foreign Policy.

"I do not subscribe to the view of those Europeans who see the search for ethical policies as a source of weakness in America's international relationships," he writes in the introduction to "The Shoeblack and the Sovereign."

He noticed the Royal Albion Hotel's shoeblack had expended a lot of energy on them, but not much skill; the leather was lacklustre - the fellow had not learned to use the minimum of polish and a bit of spit.

He made some very early silent films during the Victorian era including in 1895: a film of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, The Arrest of a Pickpocket, The Comic Shoeblack, The Boxing Kangaroo and Performing Bears.