A railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
Type of porter on sleeping cars on US railroads.
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Examples for "porter"
Examples for "porter"
1This arrangement left the Serbs' porter, Hussein, free to carry their bags.
2A hand grasped his arm; he looked up; it was the porter.
3I was afforded every help at Heuston Station by a young porter.
4And in civil life he was outside porter in a goods yard.
5The argument became a personal quarrel between the porter and the clerk.
1They were seamstresses and steelworkers, students and teachers, maids and Pullman porters.
2More than half of Negro lawyers and doctors were Pullman porters.
3Then it was that the initiative of a well-trained Pullman porter came into play.
4Recently become a Pullman porter, running to Buffalo.
5I thanked him again, not knowing then what it was to travel in a Pullman porter's closet.
6Since his father was a Pullman porter," I read, "the Lewis family lived near the railroad.
7Indians are different-lookat Pullman porters.
8They gradiate into Pullman porters.
9Every summer he goes to Canada and through the tourist season works as a Pullman porter on the Canadian Pacific.
10But the Pullman porter checked him in last night, and we found all his gear and papers in his compartment!
11"Even I don't mind a Pullman porter," finished Aunt Caroline grandly.
12The Pullman porter came into the car under compulsion of a revolver in the hand of a fourth outlaw, one in a black mask.
13I even looked for him after midnight-notonly going through the day coaches, but asking the Pullman porters if such a man was aboard.
14"But Pullman porters are not Indians, and even if they were I can't quite see how it affects Benis and his lady secretary."
Translations for pullman porter