However it seemed to him that he had been a long time in the chair, and the porters were still walking.
The twoporters were obliged to draw him from the chair themselves.
What he didn’t tell the Concierge down stairs about his old hotel he would tell the porters up stairs when they were juggling in the baggage.
From the crowded yard of the Oxford railway station there came no answer save the hoarse, insistent cries of portersand the importunate scuffling of cab-touts.
Porters are not employed by the companies; but in return for the privilege of being allowed on the stations, they clean windows, sweep offices, &c.
Porters are not paid by the railway companies, but are allowed to charge the passengers fixed fees.
Parties ofporters were attacking heaps of the cargo already on the landing.
These things she noticed, but not the glance the porters threw to each other telegraphic of some understanding between them.
Yes, one of you may seek another"-- That instant the sedan her porters had descried before they entered the copse caught her eyes.
They have African porterswith them, and those porters doubtless know some of the blacks around here.
We must inquire of the natives which way the porters went, in carrying the goods of our rivals, for those Englishmen would not abandon camp without taking their baggage with them.
Du Chaillu started on his journey with ten Commi negroes, previous servitors, as his body-guard, and fifty porters in place of the hundred needed, thus making double trips necessary for a while.
Porters in attendance, our luggage conveyed most expeditiously to the ’bus of the Hotel de L’Europe, and soon we were bowling along to that very delightful hotel.
We were surrounded byporters to carry our baggage, and almost a quarrel ensued which should have the job.
In places like this where there is little water, or more often none at all, it is as much as the porters can do to get through their long march, and when once they are on the move it is best to keep them going.
My head gun-bearer, Ramazan, and some of the porters once suffered for a fortnight after eating the meat of the first giraffe I shot, when there had been no other meat in camp for three or four days previously.
It is now of little use to go down to Zanzibar, since porters (for transport) are not allowed to engage themselves for up-country work.
Besides carrying his belongings, these porters will cook his food, collect firewood, and fetch water for him.
The other instance of men being attacked in open daylight occurred near Machako’s, in Ukambani, when a small caravan of some twenty porters was attacked by a troop of twelve or thirteen lions, which they came upon when on the march.
At Golbanti canoes can be hired and Wa Pokomo boatmen engaged to transport all goods and food up the river, whilst the porters can march along the bank empty-handed if sufficient canoes are not forthcoming for all.
The porters having fallen in to their respective companies with their askari, and having answered to the roll-call, the rifles and cartridge-belts should be distributed amongst them.
When the portershave been divided into companies or messes of ten men, each of these messes is put in charge of an askari.
Carbines are much handier for the porters than long rifles, though the askari can be armed with the latter.
Her overseer, a native of Utica, lent me two hundred slaves as porters and miners, and I divided them into gangs, which I put under the supervision of my officers.
I had in the meantime heard, in an indirect way, that he was one of the station porters who had survived.
The black-faced porterswere taking the measures of men as they entered the car.
In the hotel service there was one of those men who are porters in this world, but will be angels in the next, unless the perfect goodness of their looks, the constant kindness of their acts, belies them.
The following scene occurred at the high-level Crystal Palace line:--"A newspaper correspondent was amused at the indignation of a lady against the porters who interfered to prevent her taking her dog into the carriage.
Complaints are sometimes made of the want of due respect paid on the part of porters to passengers' luggage.
In the first-class the passengers are rude to the porters, in the third-class the porters are rude to the passengers.
Porters and young men from the country should be particularly cautious never to quit any property intrusted to their care, until delivered (not at the door) but within the house to which it is directed.
The porters indeed received him in, but excluded his friends.
The priests also and the Levites set the porters at every gate, according to the laws of Moses.
The porters of the Vintners' Company, the draymen, and the butchers, are about the only people who wear distinctive dresses; and even these do not wear them on holidays.
Both porters opposed him, because he tried to force his way in.
He asked one of the porters to whom the palace belonged, and received the same answer as at the bazaar.
And further, the same porters were told, on pain of the pillory, that they must well and trustily observe and keep this Ordinance, as aforesaid.
The Porters of the City Gates sworn that they will prevent Lepers from entering the City.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "porters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
