So do the Shopmen and assistants behind their counters; so do the girls in drapers' shops, standing the whole day and far into the evening when, as just observed, the fields have been dark for hours; so, indeed, do most men and women who earn their bread by any other means than mere bodily strength.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
I would rather not mention names, unless you think it necessary, because I make it a rule with my Shopmen that they are never to mention any man's balance, whether it is due by him or not, on pain of being turned off.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
No one in particular, but every one more or less, supposes that now we must go back for dolly to be galvanised, Tishy rather reluctantly, for she does not share her husband's indifference about what the detestable one above says on the subject of Shopmen; Miss Arkwright greedily, being reminded of a higher object in life than mere grey mullet catching.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan