purser

How To Use purser In A Sentence

• Town, with a certain Irish purser, who is as well known as he is respected among the leviathan old negro ladies, it would be hard to find. Travels in West Africa
• I must complete with water and stores, naturally, but my purser is a capable man. Hornblower In The West Indies
• If you aren't interested in doubling your duty-free allowance, as the first cruise winds to a close, ask the purser about your boarding pass for the second cruise, and how to circumvent Customs if you want to go ashore.
• The guests at 4: 05 in the morning specifically called the purser's desk and said that he had a noise complaint. CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006
• Passengers who wish to hire a cabin should apply to the purser's office.
• There were very few people in the lobby but the purser was giving me odd looks.
• The purser attempted to stop her, but she called him a good-for-nothing nipcheese, and kicked and cuffed him, while Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
• There would also have been a market for simple ready-made clothes - certainly these were produced for sailors (the "slops" supplied by the purser on board ships in the 18th C, mainly loose-fitting shirts and trousers, for those who lacked the skill or inclination to make their own). Kateelliott: Question for the Hive Mind
• Daly was the only one, however, that was planet-struck, as the doctor termed it, though he and the purser, who sat in another seat, confessed after they had been introduced to our heroine, that they had been most confoundedly out in their reckoning; and that they would never prejudge any more the beauty of a man’s wife from any knowledge they might have either of the form or visage of her husband. Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
• Duggal, who started out as a storeman in the staff canteen, was promoted step-by-step to cabin-crew and eventually in-flight purser, where he was responsible for training African crew.