Room Clerk

He was disturbed and jumpy, and the sight of Miss Silverton, talking to somebody on a settee in the corner of the hotel lobby, sent him shooting off at right angles and brought him up with a bump against the desk behind which the room-clerk sat. ❋ Unknown (1928)

The room-clerk, always of a chatty disposition, was saying something to him, but Archie did not listen. ❋ Unknown (1928)

He had smiled at the room-clerk as he crossed the lobby, and if he had had a dollar, he would have given it to the boy who took him up in the elevator. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Cora thought the Shoreham rooms beautiful, though she took care not to let the room-clerk know she thought so. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

When a fourth room-clerk expressed his polite regrets she looked him straight in the eye and said: ❋ Unknown (1911)

"That's the purser's job; he's the room-clerk," said the captain. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)

Mr. McVickar's order to the chauffeur was curtly brief, and a little later the vice-president entered the lobby of the Inter-Mountain and shot a brisk question at the room-clerk. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)

It was a sharp disappointment when the room-clerk told him that his father and Mrs. Honoria and their guest had gone to the theatre. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)

[Illustration of Sam speaking with the room-clerk,] ❋ Horatio Alger (1865)

Sam followed directions, and, approaching the room-clerk, preferred the same inquiry. ❋ Horatio Alger (1865)

The irony is that an old English room-clerk might well say something like that while his American counterpart giving the same instructions orally is more likely to say, ❋ Unknown (1987)

I note these little facts, for the contrast with those of an American hotel which we once assisted in closing, and where the elevator stopped two weeks before we left, and we fell from electricity to naphtha-gas, and even this died out before us except at long intervals in the passages; while there were lightning changes in the service, and a final failure of it till we had to go down and get our own ice-water of the lingering room-clerk, after the last bell-boy had winked out. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)