Lexicographical Neighbors of Clerkdom
Literary usage of Clerkdom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews by Cornelius Mathews (1863)
"A MOVEMENT IN clerkdom. THERE is no example on record of a more successful rising
than the recent one of the clerks of New York, to relieve themselves of ..."
2. The English in Spain: Or, The Story of the War of Succession Between 1834 by Francis Duncan (1877)
"But he had accepted clerkdom at its own price; he sought to propitiate it by
multiplied documents ; and when too late he found that the feet of his idol ..."
3. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1842)
"A Movement in clerkdom," by the same author, is enlivened by the same peculiar
vein of delicate burlesque. " Magazine Literature," and " The City Book ..."
4. Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences by Otto Bismarck (1898)
"Sooner or later the flaw must be reached, and we shall be crushed by the burden
of clerkdom, especially in the subordinate bureaucracy. ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1842)
"... and I doubt not that proficients in the several departments of business and
clerkdom, by the publication of their processes, the simplification of rules ..."
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