Luggage carrier

Usage examples of porter.

Iris noted the approving inspection of the Vuitton luggage while she tipped the porter.

March, and though the sun was shining brightly outside, and the old porter wore his linen jacket, as if it were already spring, there was a cold draught down the staircase, and the Baroness instinctively made haste up the steps, and was glad when she reached the big swinging door covered with red baize and studded with smart brass nails, which gave access to the grand apartment.

The Baroness wondered if any one were awake except the old porter downstairs.

Once more their passes were checked and now they were escorted with their flare-carrying porters through the donjon main gate, along a passage that meandered, mazelike, between high, battlemented stone walls to the next gate that led to the moat and the innermost wooden bridge.

I started for the hotel, only to see the Princess coming into sight from beyond the custom bouse, and, following her, the porter carrying her baggage.

Guessgate, which served three villages but no town, was a small wayside station with a fairly heavy goods business but little passenger traffic, so that when Brat climbed down from his carriage there was no one on the platform but a fat countrywoman, a sweating porter, the ticket-collector, and Eleanor.

In the evening a porter brought her trunk, and at this she seemed touched but not repentant.

The Bursar shuffled some papers and then looked fixedly at the doorknob which he could see slightly to the left of the porter.

When she chooses a three-story dollhouse with electric lights and an enclosed front porch it is not to pretend at future housewifery, but to arrange and rearrange the Happy Porter Family and their to-scale furniture into varying patterns of orderliness until she arrives at Perfectimundo.

Having passed the custom-house, he hired a porter to take his luggage--two leather bags and a heavy chest, all much the worse for wear--to that same hotel at which Mallard was just now staying.

In the first place, Masin came from some outlandish part of Italy where an abominable dialect was spoken, and though he could speak school Italian when he pleased, he chose to talk to the porter in his native jargon, when he talked at all.

On the other hand, though Masin would not drink, he often gave the porter a cigar, with a friendly smile.

As a night porter, you could not have been misled by the fact that he arrived a few minutes later than the girl.

Thus mollified the porter at once made a remark about the atrocious weather and proceeded to ask how the work was progressing.

Mr Greenleaf had only a small suitcase, but a porter was carrying it and the porter rode with them on the motoscafo, though Tom said he could easily carry the suitcase himself.