commission-agent

But to those who did not know his history intimately there was some difficulty in identifying him with the individual who had so taken the benefit of the law, inasmuch as in his schedule his name appeared as Hooker Walker, wine-merchant, commission-agent, music-seller, or what not.

Mens Wives 2006

At the office I was so busy all day, arranging about the shipment of a steam-crane to Siam (I am a commission-agent), that it was not until I was seated in the train, going home in the evening, that I vaguely remembered that I had forgotten something.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 Various

The commission-agent (comisionista) went by the three o'clock train.

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

In 1823, Miss Morrison became the wife of Mr John Murdoch, commission-agent in Glasgow, who died in 1829.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

In 1852 he entered into business as a commission-agent in Glasgow.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

He learnt that he was a married man, forty-six years of age, once a distiller at Sévres, recently commission-agent to a bankrupt firm, that he had left France suddenly, about the time of the disappearance of Gouffé, and that he had a mistress, one Gabrielle Bompard, who had disappeared with him.

A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

Birmingham had suggested 'an opening' in that city (thus did Mrs. Rymer phrase it), and the commission-agent had decided to leave London as soon as his affairs were in order.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

She was the only daughter of a dubiously active commission-agent, and must deem it good fortune if she married a man with three or four hundred a year; but Thomas Bird had no more than his twelve pounds a month, and did not venture to call himself a gentleman.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

Mr. Rymer was a commission-agent -- that is to say, he was everything and nothing.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

America, the commission-agent of a house in the iron trade.

Fenton's Quest 1875