house-agents

Coal-merchants, architects and surveyors, two surgeons, a solicitor, a dancing-master, and of course several house-agents, occupy the houses — little two-storeyed edifices with little stucco porticoes.

The Book of Snobs 2006

Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and ‘every modern convenience’, as the house-agents say.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and ‘every modern convenience’, as the house-agents say.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

Fatty had gone back to the village, and had gone into the office of the bigger of the two house-agents.

The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

He marched into the other house-agents, and saw to his relief a boy sitting at a table.

The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

What is more, he expects the house-agents to find it for him, and, since he considers the whole thing from the purely personal point of view, their excuses for failing to do so are of no avail.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 Various

The part of the country where he found himself was known to house-agents as being a good neighbourhood; and it was not so far away from London that the canon felt himself cut off from the intellectual life of his day.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

Their office is to act as agents for owners of ships to procure purchasers for ships, or ships for intending purchasers, in precisely the same manner as house-agents act in respect of houses.

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

Unless something is done for Higgins without delay the nation must prepare to face a tremendous rise in the rate of mortality among house-agents.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 Various

After seeing the poor wretch wear himself (and his boots) out in useless journeying to and from the places where house-agents pretend to work I thought of a scheme -- not strictly original -- for obtaining a house and presented it to him without hope of reward.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 Various