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  • In reality, however, it was an active volcano in the shape and clothes of the bank-manager.

    2008 August | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008

  • In reality, however, it was an active volcano in the shape and clothes of the bank-manager.

    Kindle-licious on Wodehouse’s Psmith: Work is a Mug’s Job | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008

  • ‘Actually Mr. Trewen, the bank-manager, and his wife.’

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • Others opened fruit-stalls, and a bank-manager in Argostoli set up a table before the ruins of his bank, conducting his usual transactions and enjoying his job for the first time.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • Mr. Percival is a bank-manager, and a local councillor, and Mr.. Percival has a colourful past — she used to be an actress, and has very glamorous pictures of herself in different roles all round the house.

    Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

  • The quiet, urbane bank-manager had never before interviewed this terrible personage.

    The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley

  • He was in the middle of an altercation with his steward -- who resigned his position about once a month -- when the bank-manager was announced.

    The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley

  • "No, he has robbed you, sir," replied the bank-manager, with alacrity, for his instructions were to drive home, at all costs, the fact that it was Herresford who had been swindled, and not the bank.

    The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley

  • The bank-manager understood, and was silent while John Swinton held out his hand tremblingly and opened the yellow envelope with feverish fingers.

    The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley

  • The idea is to give the bored factory-girl or worn-out mother of five a dream-life in which she pictures herselfnot actually as a duchess (that convention has gone out) but as, say, the wife of a bank-manager.

    Boys' Weeklies 1940

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