hall-porter

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

  Symposium

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

  Satyricon

• “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

• “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

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

  Wessex Tales

• “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

• “The hall-porter could sell Babbitt – Thompson listings!”

  Babbit

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

  A Raw Youth

• “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

• “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

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