Meanings of old clerks in English

But then the old clerks had been discharged immediately after his death.

Gill, aged 86, has many recollections of old clerks and their ways.

Jenkins writes his remembrances of several old clerks.

Many examples I have given of the dry humour of old clerks, which is sometimes rather disconcerting.

There were old clerks and bookkeepers among the soldier firemen-retired gendarmes who had volunteered, a country schoolmaster, and a shrewd peasant from the Lyonnais.

It was a bitter day for the old clerks when harmoniums and organs came into fashion, and the old orchestras conducted by them were abandoned.

When Madame Descoings accompanied the old clerks to the door she assured them, at the head of the stairs, that they were "Grecian sages."

Old clerks point me out to each other as I go by like a ghost wandering through the corridors.

(These old clerks all say, "Your Honor," in addressing the Secretary.

"One of Monsieur Caffies old clerks."