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Examples

  • They ran down the staircase — Elfride first — to the booking-office, and into a carriage with an official standing beside the door.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • The porters I asked were not very clear about Shaphambury, but the booking-office clerk was helpful, and we puzzled out all I wanted to know.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • He passed through the booking-office, and looked at the paper

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • He called to the abbe and begged him to engage the whole coupe for him that very evening if the booking-office were still open.

    Ursula 2006

  • Then I approached the tiny booking-office and took a ticket for

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

  • That was arranged, and we were tearing back rather short in the wind when I espied a figure sitting on a bench beside the booking-office on the pier.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • They walked back through the thronged streets to Vauxhall station, saying little to one another, and there Lewisham, assuming as indifferent a manner as he could command, recovered their possessions from the booking-office by means of two separate tickets and put them aboard a four-wheeler.

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

  • His roots, his earthly possessions, were all downstairs in the booking-office.

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

  • We are drawn through the booking-office on to the platform as a stream draws twigs and straws round the piers of a bridge.

    The Waves 2003

  • Neville, in long coats, carrying handbags, by the booking-office.

    The Waves 2003

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