Sentence examples for house clerk from inspiring English sources

And hours went by as they were read by the droning House clerk.

In fact, Mr. Grimm did not file required paperwork about the trip, which was paid for by a private organization, with the House clerk, according to Congressional records.

Initially, the office of the Senate secretary (as well as the House clerk) issued a correct — that is to say, no loopholes — interpretation of the no-partying rule.

Mr. Fordham said he had informed Mr. Palmer of the concerns while working for Mr. Foley, after the House clerk, Jeff Trandahl, approached him.

At about 5 p.m., during a series of votes on unrelated legislation, he waded through the crowded House floor, handed a copy of the resolution to the House clerk, and signed his name.

The board's chairman, a Democrat, supported the Republicans, blaming the House clerk, Lorraine Miller, the day-to-day administrator of the program, for failing to notify Page Board members of the inappropriate conduct immediately.

To most people, guilds are reminiscent of a bygone age, a medieval netherworld of coffee houses, clerks and apprentices.

Early in its life, it housed clerks of the East India Company (EIC), which seeded the city with a trading post and later grew to rule large parts of India.

If San Antonio were a beehive, Ms. Sessa would be its queen, buzzing about a City Hall that once simultaneously housed the clerk's office, the fire engine and the jail.

It was in 1777 that Thomas Lyon, a self-styled builder (who may have formerly been a carpenter in England), was asked to construct a building to house the clerks – or "writers" – of the EIC.

He has the butcher's prize turkey delivered to the house of his clerk, Bob Cratchit.