The great hotel, the Erbprinz, was no place for a man without a passport and without baggage: not for the world would I have faced a hotel-clerk with his accusing register. ❋ Various (N/A)
Seeing his loyal class-mate's resemblance to a Grand Central Station baggage-smasher, the irrepressible Senior forthwith imitated a hotel-clerk: ❋ J. Raymond Elderdice (N/A)
Blissful, indeed, is the thought as I enter the Japanese hotel that neither the typical servant-girl nor the American hotel-clerk is to be found here. ❋ Various (N/A)
Well, see here, Poppa, we'll go along and try if we can't square the hotel-clerk and get our baggage on the cars again, and then we'll see just how we feel about it. ❋ Various (N/A)
If the ship was lost, the hotel-clerk would get back his investment -- about a week's pay. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)
"You may as well get used to it," smiled Emma, "because I'm known to every train-conductor, porter, hotel-clerk, chamber-maid, and bell-boy between here and the Great Lakes." ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)
The hotel-clerk might not know who Mary Burke was; but the watchful "spotters" would gather about and listen, and if it was mentioned that Mary was from ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
There is one thing very clear in it, said the old man; she has given the hotel-clerk a dressing. ❋ Unknown (1917)
"There's one thing very clear in it," said the old man; "she has given the hotel-clerk a dressing." ❋ Unknown (1881)
And the hotel-clerk sassed him, and swore, and threatened to make him leave. ❋ Marietta Holley (1881)
Three or four times a day he would enter the gorgeous Oriental with affected ease and carelessness, demand his key from the hotel-clerk, ask for the letter that did not come, go to his room, gaze vaguely from his window on the passing crowd below for the partner he could not find, and then return to the Good Cheer House for rest and sustenance. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
We could not have met in the silk-cotton tree, for we should have attracted too much attention, and, besides, the hotel-clerk would have routed us out. ❋ Frank Richard Stockton (1868)
* The mother of this young man remonstrated with a friend of mine, for permitting his son to join a company of civil engineers, engaged, at the time, in surveying a route for a road -- he would be subject to such fatiguing labor, and so much exposure to the elements; and congratulated herself that her own child was engaged in such an easy and gentleman-like employment as that of hotel-clerk and bar-keeper. ❋ Unknown (1856)
“There’s one thing very clear in it,” said the old man; “she has given the hotel-clerk a dressing.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
Diamonds looks good on women, Abe, and maybe also on a hotel-clerk or a feller what runs a restaurant, Abe, but a business man ain't got no right wearing diamonds. " ❋ Montague Glass (1905)
"Why, uncle Nate said when he went to the Ohio, last fall, he stayed over night to Cleveland, and the hotel-clerk sassed him, jest because he wanted to blow out his light: he wanted uncle Nate to turn it off. ❋ Marietta Holley (1881)
That clerk -- I don't know what to call him "-- (" Call him a hotel-clerk, my dear; you can't say anything worse, "interrupted her husband) --" seems to think the matter perfectly settled. " ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
