commissionaires

Most condescending gentlemen, "commissionaires" they called themselves, undertook for certain considerations to get the work done for them; but Cousin Giles declined their services.

Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

A dozen people were arrested on suspicion of theft and conspiracy to commit fraud, most of them "commissionaires," members of Drouot's clannish corporation of handlers and transporters; since then, four more have reportedly confessed to stealing.

NYT > Home Page By SCOTT SAYARE 2010

Chew on that, Federal Reserve cronies, Tri-Lateral commissionaires, Foreign Banksters and Neo-con Chicken Hawks and all other energy/oil/arms manufacturing tycoon types who continue to subvert the American way of life.

The Long Road Ahead Will Be Hard-Earned 2008

He had shouldered his own little valise, and was trudging off, scattering a cloud of commissionaires, who would fain have spared him the trouble.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Half a dozen other coaches arrive at the same minute — no light affairs, like your English vehicles, but ponderous machines, containing fifteen passengers inside, more in the cabriolet, and vast towers of luggage on the roof: others are loading: the yard is filled with passengers coming or departing; — bustling porters and screaming commissionaires.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Indeed the only point upon which criticism, as it seemed to us, might justly be directed was the strict and even rough manner in which the enormous uniformed commissionaires immediately removed, and even thrust forcibly into the street, anyone who had inadvertently overstepped the bounds of true temperance.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Indeed the only point upon which criticism, as it seemed to us, might justly be directed was the strict and even rough manner in which the enormous uniformed commissionaires immediately removed, and even thrust forcibly into the street, anyone who had inadvertently overstepped the bounds of true temperance.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Indeed the only point upon which criticism, as it seemed to us, might justly be directed was the strict and even rough manner in which the enormous uniformed commissionaires immediately removed, and even thrust forcibly into the street, anyone who had inadvertently overstepped the bounds of true temperance.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Simiot argued that it should have a gap at Bordeaux, because a break in the line there would redound greatly to the wealth of the Bordeaux porters, commissionaires, hotelkeepers, bargemen, and the like, and thus, by enriching Bordeaux, would enrich France.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Simiot argued that it should have a gap at Bordeaux, because a break in the line there would redound greatly to the wealth of the Bordeaux porters, commissionaires, hotelkeepers, bargemen, and the like, and thus, by enriching Bordeaux, would enrich France.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999