clerkly

It was-it was a clerkly sort of book, and sent him off into a near-doze when he tried to read it.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

Write to him, as I cannot, that we come instantly to attend his commands, and do it clerkly.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

He was one of Charles’s clerkly colleagues in Leadenhall Street.

Excerpt: The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd 2006

Tim Linkinwater condescended, after much entreaty and brow – beating, to accept a share in the house; but he could never be prevailed upon to suffer the publication of his name as a partner, and always persisted in the punctual and regular discharge of his clerkly duties.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

Temple, something of a clerkly monkish atmosphere, which public offices of law have not disturbed, and even legal firms have failed to scare away.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

So she strove with herself, and became of better heart, and set herself strongly to the learning of the clerkly lore; she gathered her wits together, and no longer looked for every day and every hour to bring about the return of the Champions, nor blamed the day and the hour because they failed therein, and in all wise she strove to get through the day unworn by vain longing.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Cathedral towers to walk with a clerkly bearing on the grass – plot — and was introduced to my new master, Doctor Strong.

David Copperfield 2007

He approaches a clerkly-looking man, sitting under the corner arch, and makes his bargain.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Mr Boffin having been several times in communication with this clerkly essence, both on its own ground and at the Bower, had no difficulty in identifying it when he saw it up in its dusty eyrie.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

He was at this time a significant figure — tall, lean, inquisitorial, clerkly — with nice, smooth, closely-cropped side whiskers coming to almost the lower lobes of his ears.

The Financier 2004