booking-office

• “The porters I asked were not very clear about Shaphambury, but the booking-office clerk was helpful, and we puzzled out all I wanted to know.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “He called to the abbe and begged him to engage the whole coupe for him that very evening if the booking-office were still open.”

  Ursula

• “He passed through the booking-office, and looked at the paper”

  The Hand of Ethelberta

• “They ran down the staircase — Elfride first — to the booking-office, and into a carriage with an official standing beside the door.”

  A Pair of Blue Eyes

• “Then I approached the tiny booking-office and took a ticket for”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

• “That was arranged, and we were tearing back rather short in the wind when I espied a figure sitting on a bench beside the booking-office on the pier.”

  Greenmantle

• “His roots, his earthly possessions, were all downstairs in the booking-office.”

  Love and Mr Lewisham

• “They walked back through the thronged streets to Vauxhall station, saying little to one another, and there Lewisham, assuming as indifferent a manner as he could command, recovered their possessions from the booking-office by means of two separate tickets and put them aboard a four-wheeler.”

  Love and Mr Lewisham

• “We are drawn through the booking-office on to the platform as a stream draws twigs and straws round the piers of a bridge.”

  The Waves

• “Neville, in long coats, carrying handbags, by the booking-office.”

  The Waves

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