"Desk sergeant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Of course, Rob got in, even if he had to run away and smouch a little about how old he was. But he wasn't through his training. And as for the other boys, Frank was solemn as an owl because the desk sergeant laughed at him and told him to go back to the Boy Scouts; and Jesse was almost ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough
... back to the desk sergeant's room were, John estimated, more than 150 other men and boys, arrested like himself and evidently brought to headquarters in other trucks. In this crowd he learned that every place along Spring street ...
— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson |
