booking-clerk

I pushed my misgivings to one side and led him out to the car, running a gauntlet of pop-eyed stares from a booking-clerk, two ladies sitting on the platform seat and from a porter who nearly wheeled a load of packing cases into a wall.

Every living thing Herriot, James 1992

He is forced to combine the qualities of booking-clerk, station-master, goods-agent, information clerk, and day and night watchman all into one.

Life in a Tank Richard Haigh

Ten months later he was a booking-clerk at Sowerby Bridge station on the Leeds & Manchester railway, and later at Luddenden Foot.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

I once asked a booking-clerk for two sun spots of the Western coast, and he told me that the refreshment-room was further on.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 Various

The booking-clerk took her own time to count out the change, and on leaving the window I found four policemen struggling to keep back an infuriated mob of people, all shrieking imprecations and asking for my blood.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 Various

"I want to ask some questions of the booking-clerk," he said to the man, slipping several _lire_ into his hand, "you might come and interpret for me."

Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore

It might not sound very convincing, of course, even if you had a red-and-black cricket-cap on the back of your head and covered your beard or what not with one hand; but a constant succession of people all demanding the same thing would most certainly cause the booking-clerk to give way.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 Various

Something suspicious in the manner of the booking-clerk made him change his place of destination.

A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

It was, moreover, one of those stations where the separate duties of station-master, porter, booking-clerk, and ticket-collector are performed by one and the same person, and where the signal always appears to be down.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

At Canterbury station neither the booking-clerk nor the porters could throw any light upon the subject.

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard 1912