Crossword-Solution: BOOTBLACKS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Newsboys and bootblacks are their own masters, and, whether their earnings are little or great, reap the benefit of them themselves.

Some was old men that looked like war veterans, and some was crippled, and a good many was just kids--bootblacks and newsboys and messengers.

Brokers, poets, millionaires, bootblacks, beauties, hod-carriers and politicians become little black specks dodging bigger black specks in streets no wider than your thumb.

Thus defiled by fours, with the divers insignia of their grades, in that strange faculty, most of them lame, some cripples, others one-armed, shop clerks, pilgrims, _hubins_, bootblacks, thimble-riggers, street arabs, beggars, the blear-eyed beggars, thieves, the weakly, vagabonds, merchants, sham soldiers, goldsmiths, passed masters of pickpockets, isolated thieves.

Some tormenting bootblacks had told Gringoire about meeting her that same evening near the Pont Saint-Michel, going off with an officer; but this husband, after the fashion of Bohemia, was an incredulous philosopher, and besides, he, better than any one else, knew to what a point his wife was virginal.