bus-conductor

Let his youthful aspirations run through the usual stages, liftman, engine - driver, bus-conductor, sailor, etc.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various

If I tell, you that _Jay_ runs away from a respectable home, and, after a grievous experiment as a bolster-filler, becomes a bus-conductor, has a romantic friendship with a middle-aged married man, and marries the faithful _Mr.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

Sometimes it works the other way round: a bus-conductor calls us Miss, and we put our watch backward a little with a smile of relief.

Try Anything Twice 1938

That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

He turned to a policeman and asked for advice, and the policeman put him in the care of a 'bus-conductor.

The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

I could be one of the men round stations that open people's cab doors and take the luggage out; or even a bus-conductor, who knows?

The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919

"This is a public 'bus," observed the 'bus-conductor.

This Is the End Stella Benson 1912

The 'bus-conductor gave him his ticket, and then took her stand upon her platform, more or less unaware that Mr. Russell and the actor, both next to the door and opposite to each other, were looking at her with a pleased look.

This Is the End Stella Benson 1912

He only extended half-hearted generosity to Jay, because she was, after all, a 'bus-conductor, and to that extent a nob.

This Is the End Stella Benson 1912

He was much occupied in remembering phantom yesterdays, and I do not think he listened very much to what the 'bus-conductor said.

This Is the End Stella Benson 1912