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
You ain’t no road agent, you’re only a fool amature with more gall than brains!
From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.
"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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
Rance received this information in silence and went on with his shuffling of the cards; presently, unconcernedly, he remarked: "Ramerrez—Oh, that's the polite road agent who has been visiting the other camps?"
From The Girl of the Golden West by Belasco, David
S'pose you was only a road agent an' I was a saloon keeper.
From The Girl of the Golden West by Belasco, David
