ticket-collector

• “As the section comes to an end, we are introduced to other characters who will make subsequent re-appearances: the engineer, the conductor, the ticket-collector, an attractive woman with "tanned thighs.”

  Experimental Fiction

• “The World Trade Center's on fire," announced a ticket-collector in a scratchy PA announcement.”

  Newsweek: 'It Was Like Swimming Through Black Smoke'

• “An old ticket-collector came to ask for our tickets.”

  Within a Budding Grove

• “Two with a literary ticket-collector in the chill and dismal recesses of a Harlem subway station.”

  The Beautiful and Damned

• “The ticket-collector saluted Jimmy; he was an old man:”

  Dubliners

• “The attendant, booking clerk, ticket-collector, porter and station-master are probably all one man.”

  Where Eagles Dare

• “Where's Fatty?" said Daisy, as the crowd of passengers came up to the door where the ticket-collector stood.”

  The Mystery of Holly Lane

• “From the train I was intensely gratified to see the clerk come out of his office and start gossiping with the ticket-collector, evidently about me.”

  Marazan

• “I have never seen a face so lacking in that gracious trustfulness which is at once the pride and the adornment of the normal ticket-collector.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914

• “Then you'd better explain to the ticket-collector.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914

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