Sentence examples for hall porter from inspiring English sources
noun
A hotel worker who carries luggage to the rooms of guests.
You knew where you were with a laundry maid, an under-gardener, a hall porter and so on.
It was the producer, Peter Eton, who suggested an old-fashioned gentlemen's club, with Fraser as hall porter and Bass as handyman.
On graduating, he worked as an assistant surveyor in Stoke's town planning office, adding that experience to a varied CV that also included stints as a farmhand, manservant, demolition worker, hall porter and English teacher in Norway.
A lower-middle-class boy from Leicester, he had climbed up the academic hierarchy the hard way: rejected from Cambridge as a student, he was sent to languish in the limbo of the University College at Leicester, whose residents, in the early thirties, numbered just eighty students and faculty, "including," he used to say, "the hall porter who taught botany".
"I was employed by the porter and not by the hotel, so I used to make a lot of money for the hall porter and can remember the Grand National winners coming up the hotel steps," said Beaumont.
Apart from the hall, a porter's lodge and a public office, the rest of the building was given over to the heralds as accommodation.
But the contractors suspected insurance fraud, and when the building installed a camera in the hall, it caught the porter sneaking in seconds after the contractors left.
As penance, he becomes an itinerant beggar, until one day he enters a study hall and hears two porters learnedly debating a point of law; when one of them finds a copy of the rabbi's book on the shelf and uses it to prove an argument, the rabbi is finally vindicated in his own eyes.
goals – Arriola 2, Alfafara 1, Boyd 1, Pfohl 1. APU – Sadler 26, Byrd 5, Hala'Ufia 10, Moore-Porter 13, Hall 11, Williams 8, Hill 7, Jackson 1. 3-pt.
Lila Cerullo is the daughter of Fernando Cerullo, a shoemaker; Elena's father works as a porter at city hall.
