shop-walker

Jerking them back to the present comes the puffy little shop-walker, with a paper in his hand.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

The shop-walker brings up parallel to the counter.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

One glance more at him, and the puffy little shop-walker would have been bowing you out, with fountains of civilities at work all about you.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

Then a puffy little shop-walker would have come into view, looked at the bill for a second, very hard (showing you a parting down the middle of his head meanwhile), have scribbled a still more flourishing J.M. all over the document, have asked you if there was nothing more, have stood by you — supposing that you were paying cash — until the central figure of this story reappeared with the change.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

The shop-walker makes a note of it and goes on to Briggs in the

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

For it seemed that the place they were in was a vast shop, and then Mr. Hoopdriver perceived that the other man in brown was the shop-walker, differing from most shop-walkers in the fact that he was lit from within as a Chinese lantern might be.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

With a gesture that revealed the shop-walker, he led Syme down a short, iron-bound passage, the still agonised Gregory following feverishly at their heels.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

She was a neat, impersonal young woman, part midwife, part governess, part shop-walker, in manner.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

‘He spoke almost without moving his lips, and looking anxiously at a shop-walker who was watching us from a distance.’

Maigret has Scruples Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958

And if the shop-walker is taken, the tradesman may as well let his windows lie fallow.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 Various