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
Why had he not seen at once that it was Johnson who was the road agent!
From The Girl of the Golden West by Belasco, David
There was nothing in his speech or manner to suggest that he had ever been a road agent.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith
"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)
And hence not a tale of the outlaw's doings was complete without the narrator insisting upon it that the leader of the band—the road agent himself—closely resembled an American.
From The Girl of the Golden West by Belasco, David
