The European portier wears a uniform, I do not know why, and a gold-banded cap, and he inhabits a little office at the entrance of the hotel.
Our portier here is a tall, slim Dutchman (most Dutchmen are tall and slim), and in spite of the waning season he treats me as if I were multitude, while at the same time he uses me with the distinction due the last of his guests.
The portier and I ignored together the hour of parting, which we had definitely ascertained and agreed upon, and we exchanged some compliments to the weather, which is now settled, as if we expected to enjoy it long together.
I feel better every day; nevertheless, you will pay the portier these fifty francs, to which I completely agree, for my doctor does not permit me to move from here before summer.
Tell theportier to give you all the letters addressed to me.
Give theportier twenty francs as a New Year's present.
The position ofportier in the chief hotels of Saratoga, Long Branch, New York, and similar centers of resort, would be one which the holder could afford to pay even more than five thousand dollars for, perhaps.
It is the pride of our average hotel clerk to know nothing whatever; it is the pride of the portier to know everything.
The courier (this was not the one I have just been speaking of) thought that the portier of the hotel would be able to tell us how to find our way.
If you stay only one day, you give the portier a mark.
The portier also wrote down each day's journey and the nightly hotel on a piece of paper, and made our course so plain that we should never be able to get lost without high-priced outside help.
One of our consuls told me that a portier of a great Berlin hotel paid five thousand dollars a year for his position, and yet cleared six thousand dollars for himself.
Oh," said the young fellow, with a sort of dryness, "the portier will get them.
The portier was already there, standing at the step of the lordly two-spanner which they had ordered for the long drive to the station.
The Emperor William of Germany once assured Mark Twain that it was his favorite American book, and on the same evening the portier of the author's lodging in Berlin echoed the Emperor's opinion.
The descriptions of the German Portier and the German newspaper are happy enough, and the essay on the awful German language is one of Mark Twain's supreme bits of humor.
Le portier looks as dejected as though Paris was about to be bombarded, as he goes down and breaks the dreadful news to le proprietaire.
The portierdid not produce the book, but summoned a man in livery and gold lace and directed him to take them up-stairs, remarking that her Royal Highness was out, but would be in presently.
A few days later, about noon, they drove to the archducal palace, inquired their way to the royal anteroom, and informed the grandly uniformed portier that they wished to write their names in the visitors' book.
The encounters always left the portierpurple and perspiring, as any agitation must with a man so tight in his livery.
There was no steam on in the radiators, of course; when they implored the portierfor at least a lamp to warm their hands by he turned on all the electric lights without raising the temperature in the slightest degree.
The portier and the head waiter shared his ecstasy in so easily obliging the friendly American pair, and joined him in minutely instructing the driver when they shut them into their carriage.
Several times that day he had seen encounters between the portier and guests at the hotel which promised violence, but which ended peacefully as soon as some simple question of train-time was solved.
And if you are a foreigner, examining these houses with a view to renting, the portier frau will accompany you around, exclaiming how comfortable it all is!
I believe he and the portier talked it over at great length, but, so far as I am aware, without arriving at any solution.
But should I have been led on to stab him myself, with the poisoned dagger, had the portier not been there?
It was uncertain whether Paton and the portierhad planned the robbery together, or separately, and in ignorance of each other's purpose.
They had been living here several years--from before the time, indeed, that the portier had occupied his present position.
At this juncture the portier seemed to be startled at something--possibly he saw me at my window; at all events, he lowered his pole and disappeared in the house.
The cap and the cap-band were the same, and it was to all intents and purposes the same portier who had bowed him away in the morning; but the face was different.
The portier discovered a certain embarrassment when the colonel's pleasure was made known to him, and ventured something in reply which made the consul smile.
The consul at this broke into a fit of laughter so violent that the portier retired a pace or two from these maniacs, and took up a safe position within his doorway.
Then he pulled his friend gently away, who yielded after a survey of the portier and the court-yard with a frown in which an indignant sense of injury quite eclipsed his former bewilderment.
The consul turned him about, and in another minute they walked under an archway into a court-yard, and were met by the portier at the door of his room with an inquiring obeisance.
The consul did so, the portier slowly and respectfully shaking his head at every point.
And I heard the portier shuffling down the hall and then the hollow, rapping sound of another early morning call on the Ober-Lieutenant's door.
When I knew Attilio Palladini several years ago, he was the courier of the Parque Hotel in Montevideo, and quit it to be head portier of the Hotel Savoy in Buenos Aires.
This same manager, an Engadine Swiss, was formerly the head portier of the Hotel Savoy in Rosario.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
