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Examples
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“Why,” said he, stifling his anger, “it seems free enough to every counter-jumper in the town!”
Westward Ho! 2007
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“You very nearly damaged that poor young counter-jumper, my dear,” said the Count, advancing hastily to meet Emilie.
The Ball at Sceaux 2007
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“You very nearly damaged that poor young counter-jumper, my dear,” said the Count, advancing hastily to meet Emilie.
The Ball at Sceaux 2007
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But if you see how a mere counter-jumper, a cad on castors, and a fool to boot, may come to feel the little insufficiencies of life, and if he has to any extent won your sympathies, my end is attained.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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Sunday could convert one average navvy or counter-jumper.
The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003
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A young man with a sandy moustache, a celestial nose, and fishy blue eyes, got up to look like a counter-jumper on a holiday, whom I had long since learned to know as Detective Limpet, was walking a few steps behind me on the other side of the road.
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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He had set Redburn down as a faint-hearted, dubious-couraged counter-jumper from the East; he saw now that there was something of him, after all.
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler
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Against arrogance, against contempt of himself as a shop person, a species of "counter-jumper," against irascibility, against bigoted ignorance, against an indissoluble assumption, perhaps logical, that he is of inferior mentality, this factotum has no defence.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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Thereupon the long-limbed clerk verified the taunt of "counter-jumper" by clearing it at a bound.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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He thought it necessary to get himself up to look like an artist, though he had not the soul of a counter-jumper, and the result was long hair, a velvet coat, a red tie, bumptious bearing, and an altogether scatter-brained and fly-away manner.
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
knitandpurl commented on the word counter-jumper
"A draper’s assistant, who jumps over the counter to go from one part of the shop to another."
August 4, 2008