road agent
Example Sentences
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Paul Manson, the road agent in Wentworth, said he had already been plowing for about six hours Saturday when he encountered Greeson standing in the middle of the road around 8 a.m.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
"This—-er—-Bad Pete isn't an—-er—-that is, a road agent, is he?" he asked apprehensively.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
To this heterogeneous mass was added the gambler, the bandit, the road agent, the dive keeper, and other undesirable citizens.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
"I did, but that isn't evidence that will acquit him in court of being a road agent."
From The Highgrader by D. C. Hutchison
Why had he not seen at once that it was Johnson who was the road agent!
From The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco