PORTER

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Traducere în limba română

porter¹ substantiv

portar.

porter² substantiv

1. hamal.

2. (amer.) însoţitor (de vagon de dormit).

porter³substantiv

porter (bere neagră).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Half an hour later, the porter tells me that a rough-looking man with a beard called with a note for Godfrey.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Porter had gone to bed, so I let myself out.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have been porter?

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes I saw her: she would come out of her room with a basin, or a plate, or a tray in her hand, go down to the kitchen and shortly return, generally (oh, romantic reader, forgive me for telling the plain truth!) bearing a pot of porter.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It took me such a long time to write an answer at all to my satisfaction, that I don't know what the ticket-porter can have thought, unless he thought I was learning to write.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The porter had observed his hand trembling when he had held out the note.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no sign of the presence of anyone in the house, except Mrs. Porter, the old cook and housekeeper, who declared that she had slept deeply and heard no sound during the night.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You are the day porter, are you not?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Porter may be eliminated.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had exchanged a few sentences, of which the porter had only distinguished the one word “time.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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