Hall porter

Usage examples of doorman.

Police SWAT teams in chic basic black accessorized with tear gas and semiautomatic weapons are charging in past the doorman holding the door in his gold braid.

The doorman, obviously a pensioner, greeted me civilly enough but made no attempt to rise from bis stool.

Brandy Bottle Bates and The Sky and the other citizens are standing, and one and all are feeling sorry for Dobber, the doorman, thinking of what Nathan Detroit is bound to say to him for letting her in.

Doorman finished his briefing and passed out fiches of the operations order.

Professor Noel Gouf went marching out of the Pigeon Club again, going through the wall this time so as not to go through the doorman.

Private detective agencies, telephone company employees, newsboys, soda jerkers, waitresses, doormen, elevator operators.

Silver City, Ouzo slipped by the doorman and made it to an open elevator while Jake created a minor distraction.

Some of Danny Coughlin must have still been on his face when he returned to the lounge, because Rosario looked alarmed and Jimmy shrank in his seat, and even Hobie, the old Doorman, blinked his eyes.

After making appointments, writing schedules, letters, and notes that would allow our household to continue in its predictable harmony, she marked the mirror in her hotel room with an annulling X in bright red lipstick, paid her bill with cash, flirted with, the doorman, and gave a large tip to the boy who brought her the car.

I pictured that doorman, a gold-braided Cerberus at the gate of hell, a three-headed Bouvier des Flandres in burgundy livery.

Connie turned over the new grey convertible to the doorman of the Bombay Royale, whisked the professor through the lobby so fast he only glimpsed the photomurals of Hindu temples, and took him to the roof in a private elevator.

A uniformed doorman opened my door and took my bag, another waved the cab forward to join the line waiting to take some of the perfume- and cologne-drenched passengers queuing behind a red velvet rope.

In panic, he had rushed for the kitchen area and had barely enough time to assume a disguise, secreted there, that Katsumata had given him as, a few metres away, masked by a hedge, the Sergeant shoved past the bowing doorman, kicked off his sandals and stomped onto the veranda of the main house.

If all were so relaxed and unregimented, how had the doorman known his name?

Confederate doorman Banat had taken it upon himself to institute a new system of doorkeeping.