Accordin g to Jake, th e desk-clerk at the New York Plaza-Park Hotel had told them the message had been left by a man named Stephen King. ❋ King, Stephen (2004)
Just before the torp-test he'd mentioned, he found that the ship belonged to the hotel desk-clerk, who had bought it in hope of renting it sooner or later for television background-shots in case anybody was crazy enough to make a television film-tape on the moon. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)
Eustace Hignett was leaning over the counter, in conversation with the desk-clerk. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Most of the time Mr. Brewster stood in one spot and just looked thoughtful; but now and again he would wander to the marble slab behind which he kept the desk-clerk and run his eye over the register, to see who had booked rooms -- like a child examining the stocking on Christmas morning to ascertain what Santa Claus had brought him. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Next morning, I notified the desk-clerk, and, quite casually, both the newspaper correspondents, that the Green Chalybeate was about to be bereft of the presence of a distinguished novelist. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
"See here!" said I, to the desk-clerk; "how long does this place keep open?" ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
Bruce took the yellow envelope which the desk-clerk handed him and looked at it with a feeling of dread. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)
He took in the contents at a glance and there was such relief, such renewed hope in his radiant face that the desk-clerk was moved to observe smilingly: "Good news, I gather." ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)
Those who are educated understand that by the "inside" of a hotel is meant everything except the four outer walls of it -- the fittings, the furniture, the bar, Billy the desk-clerk, the three dining-room girls, and above all the license granted by King Edward VII., and ratified further by King George, for the sale of intoxicating liquors. ❋ Stephen Leacock (1906)
And it was just at the moment when Mr. Smith said this that Billy, the desk-clerk, entered the room with the telegram in his hand. ❋ Stephen Leacock (1906)
You're a desk-clerk, and you write all day long, standing at a desk. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
It will be a different thing to meet him one day in Antwerp, than it will be to greet again the desk-clerk of the La Salle Hotel in Chicago. ❋ Arthur Gleason (1900)
In the summer that was Marian's the resort was a beautiful and tumble-down place where invalids congregated for the sake of the nauseous waters, -- which infallibly demolish a solid column of strange maladies I never read quite through, although it bordered every page of the writing-paper you got there from the desk-clerk, -- and a scanty leaven of persons who came thither, apparently, in order to spend a week or two in lamenting "how very dull the season is this year, and how abominable the fare is." ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
"But the desk-clerk said that he had asked you if it would be quite satisfactory to you giving it up to me, and you said yes. ❋ Unknown (1928)
"Well, as a matter of fact, my dear old desk-clerk," he said, "I want to kick up a fearful row, and it hardly seems fair to lug you into it. ❋ Unknown (1928)
