hall-porter

Lit. “him who answers the knock,” “the concierge” or hall-porter.

Symposium 2007

I asked the hall-porter what pictures were in the middle hall.

Satyricon 2007

Park as she was practising, yet the youthful hall-porter in the sugar-loaf buttons was instructed to deny her, and always declared that his mistress was gone out, with the most admirable assurance.

Mens Wives 2006

She, with the children, had rambled along the shore, and Marchmill followed in the direction indicated by the military-looking hall-porter

Wessex Tales 2006

Wine-merchants will naturally compete every week promiscuously, sending what they consider their best samples, and leaving with the hall-porter tickets of the prices.

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

As I went downstairs I put ten guineas into the hand of the hall-porter, who looked quite astonished at such a gift.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

The hall-porter could sell Babbitt – Thompson listings!

Babbit 2004

He slightly turned his head and then made a sign to the footman and the hall-porter.

A Raw Youth 2003

I had overtaken them, but I stopped for a moment before the hall-porter, and, goodness knows why, thrust three half imperials into his hand; he gazed at me in amazement and did not even thank me.

A Raw Youth 2003

But there are many excellent houses in the capital with very cheap aind comfortable lodgings, with the Neva water laid on, and a staircase lighted by gas, frequently with a hall-porter maintained by the proprietor.

The Crocodile 2003