ticket-collector

As the section comes to an end, we are introduced to other characters who will make subsequent re-appearances: the engineer, the conductor, the ticket-collector, an attractive woman with "tanned thighs."

Experimental Fiction 2010

"The World Trade Center's on fire," announced a ticket-collector in a scratchy PA announcement.

'It Was Like Swimming Through Black Smoke' 2007

Two with a literary ticket-collector in the chill and dismal recesses of a Harlem subway station.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

The ticket-collector saluted Jimmy; he was an old man:

Dubliners 2003

An old ticket-collector came to ask for our tickets.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

The attendant, booking clerk, ticket-collector, porter and station-master are probably all one man.

Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967

"Where's Fatty?" said Daisy, as the crowd of passengers came up to the door where the ticket-collector stood.

The Mystery of Holly Lane Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953

From the train I was intensely gratified to see the clerk come out of his office and start gossiping with the ticket-collector, evidently about me.

Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

I have never seen a face so lacking in that gracious trustfulness which is at once the pride and the adornment of the normal ticket-collector.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 Various

"Then you'd better explain to the ticket-collector."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 Various