hallboy

In anticipation he loitered through the big, marble-and-stucco, rug and rubber-tree, negro hallboy and Jew tenant hallway ....

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

Cynthia and Ephraim, intent on getting rid of some of the dust of their journey, followed the colored hallboy up the stairs.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Cynthia and Ephraim, intent on getting rid of some of the dust of their journey, followed the colored hallboy up the stairs.

Coniston — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

Cynthia and Ephraim, intent on getting rid of some of the dust of their journey, followed the colored hallboy up the stairs.

Coniston — Volume 03 Winston Churchill 1909

I should have to take a chance that Werner's servant and the hallboy would not compare notes, and that the latter would say nothing to the director upon his arrival.

The Film Mystery 1908

The hallboy took me up in the elevator himself without telephoning, took me to Werner's door, rang the bell, and spoke to the colored valet who opened it.

The Film Mystery 1908

We jumped out and entered, succeeding in making our way to the sixth floor, where Mendoza lived, without interference from the hallboy, who had been completely swamped by the rush that followed the excitement of finding one of the tenants murdered.

Gold of the Gods 1908

But he gained the ground-floor lobby to find it as empty as his own astonishment -- its doors wide to the cold air of dawn, its lights dimmed to the likeness of smouldering embers by the stark refulgence of day; but nowhere a sign of a hallboy or anything else in human guise.

The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

A dull-eyed hallboy recognised and let him in, sullenly passing him on to the elevator; but as that last was on the point of taking flight to

The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906