"Commissionaire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Paris that evening. A commissionaire took her trunk and she followed him in great fear, jostled by the crowd and not knowing how to make her way amid this mass of moving humanity, almost running to keep up with the man for fear of losing sight ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... sitting idly by her bed-room window, was awaiting Anna's answer to her note. She had sent it, just before she went down to luncheon, by a commissionaire, to the Pension Malfait, and the answer ought ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... crept out into the frosty daylight, found a commissionaire who was accustomed to do errands for him, and sent him with ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... with the swift efficiency of the thoroughly trained servant. In rather less than the time which he had stated, Bellamy had left his rooms. Before four o'clock he had arrived at the address which Louise had given him. A commissionaire telephoned his name to the first floor, and in a very few moments a pale-faced French man-servant, in sombre black livery, descended ...
— Havoc • E. Phillips Oppenheim |
