commissionaire

How to use commissionaire in a sentence

• I replied, quite calmly, that the dissipations of commissionaires were limited by their circumstances.

  In Accordance with the Evidence | Oliver Onions

• London goes with you and elbows you on your way, accompanied by swarms of commissionaires, guides, and beggars.

  The Huguenots in France | Samuel Smiles.

• I found the "3 A." Club located at one of the large hotels, all alive with "bell-boys" and commissionaires and elevators.

  Across America by Motor-cycle | C. K. Shepherd

• "My dear sir, there are Commissionaires at all the hotels who are perfect linguists," said Mr. Firkin in a gentlemanly manner.

  The Potiphar Papers | George William Curtis

• Then I went on to the commissionaires' barracks in the Strand.

  The Ivory Gate, a new edition | Walter Besant