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

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

“Going to have a real, bad road agent in your play, Ruthie?”

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Emerson, Alice B.

Where very severely hunted, like the road agent, they "take to the brush," that is, hide in the chaparral.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various

There was nothing in his speech or manner to suggest that he had ever been a road agent.

From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith