Sentence examples for a bootblacking factory from inspiring English sources

Like children in a bootblacking factory".

Born to a profligate father whose decent job only provided intermittent comfort to his family, the 12-year-old Dickens was sent to work in a bootblack factory when they hit very bad times.

Boy, be a bootblack.

recently and advertised for a bootblack.

The strike lasted nearly… Conversation with a bootblack.

Today, there is a bootblack at 55 Nassau Street named Luis.

By H. R. Werner The New Yorker, April 24 , 1943P. 59 Conversation with a bootblack.

There was Buddy, perched high in a bootblack's chair, getting his black cowboy boots shined before catching a flight home.

Pozo was born in 1915 into extreme poverty and raised in the desperately poor Havana district called Solar el Africa, where his father worked as a bootblack.

A bootblack and a barber, both dressed only in latex aprons, ply their grooming trades with fanatical skill.

She got a job in a factory.