Commissionaire

They turned in through some imposing gates where a Commissionaire was standing on duty in a military manner and drove up a drive flanked with rhododen-drons.

Twin Moons 2010

Sketches, skits and what-have-you of the usual perfect comic timing and fruity humour kind include: "Harry and Bert Down The Pub", "Cinema Commissionaire", "Ice Cream Parlour Sketch" very funny sketch: "I'd like an ice cream, please."

Archive 2010-03-01 X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010

In all commissions, whether from men or women, point de galanterie, bring them in your account, and be paid to the uttermost farthing; but if you would show them une galanterie, let your present be of something that is not in your commission, otherwise you will be the Commissionaire banal of all the women of Saxony.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

“Commissionaire they call him, I think,” she said.

The Years 2004

“Baroness Shawe and Mr. William Shawe,” booms Commissionaire Jenkins as a commanding female with a modest husband in tow approaches the hosts for the usual rapid exchange of civilities.

Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

“Baroness Shawe and Mr. William Shawe,” booms Commissionaire Jenkins as a commanding female with a modest husband in tow approaches the hosts for the usual rapid exchange of civilities.

Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

“Baroness Shawe and Mr. William Shawe,” booms Commissionaire Jenkins as a commanding female with a modest husband in tow approaches the hosts for the usual rapid exchange of civilities.

Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

A year later the man was earning his living as a Commissionaire porter.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

This patient became a Commissionaire some ten months later.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

Commissionaire, but nine months after the injury, while his wife was helping him on with his coat one morning, he was suddenly seized with a fit; the paralysed arm was jerked up, and convulsions became general, a wedge needing to be inserted to prevent the tongue suffering injury.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins