"Ticket collector" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stared at my blue chevrons and whispered to her fellow passenger: "He's just come from the front." So I too was regarded as a strange kind of animal. I got out at my home-station. I showed my leave-warrant to the ticket collector. He was a benevolent looking old man. He smiled and wished me good luck. Things began to seem a little less foreign. And then the thought of being home in a few minutes ...
— Combed Out • Fritz August Voigt
... rage he flung back the bottom latch and seized the handle of the carriage door. At the same moment he lost his balance and was pulled off by the furious ticket collector and by Mazeroux, ...
— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc
... evening in Ipswich. It was October, drizzling and dark; the last cab moved out as he tried to enter it, for he had been detained by his ticket which he had put for extra readiness in his glove, and forgotten—as if the ticket collector couldn't have seen it there, the 'fat chough!' He walked up to his Aunt's house, and was admitted to a mansion where a dinner-party was going on. It was impossible to persuade the servant that this was his Aunt's, so he was obliged to retire ...
— Tatterdemalion • John Galsworthy
... followed Bosinney more closely than ever—up the stairs, past the ticket collector into the street. In that progress, however, his feelings underwent a change; no longer merely curious and amused, he felt sorry for the poor fellow he was shadowing. 'The Buccaneer' was not drunk, but ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... foreman porter? And then a ticket collector? And then the inspector? And then a casual post-man? And then did you come across your original porter ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 • Various |
