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  • "You're a bell-boy recently employed here," Babbing said.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • And he went into the bathroom and took off his Sunday twilled serge, and put on the black uniform of an Antwerp bell-boy mechanically, without thinking of himself as engaged in a Nick Carter exploit.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • "Get away, kid," he said to the bell-boy who offered to carry it.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • When Cooper returned to the room, the bell-boy was standing near the door looking up at a framed engraving.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • “Oscar,” he called to a boy seated at the head of the bell-boy bench, to which a tallish, rather oversized youth in a tight, neat-looking uniform responded with alacrity.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • For he was over twenty now, and getting to be pretty old for a bell-boy, that is, if one ever intended to be anything else.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • Led by what poor Francis called a ‘bell-boy’ into the lift, she walked behind his buttons along a pale-gray river of corridor carpet, between pale-grey walls, past cream-coloured after cream-coloured door in the bright electric light, with her head a little down.

    The Silver Spoon 2004

  • For he was a bell-boy again and acting in that capacity in this club.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • Sassburger telephoned for ice, and the bell-boy who brought it said, prosaically and unprompted, “Highball glasses or cocktail?”

    Babbit 2004

  • True, before coming here he had browsed about Kansas City and Chicago with such worldly-wise mentors of the hotel bell-boy world as Ratterer, Higby,

    An American Tragedy 2004

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