The clerk hurried away into the maze of offices and tiny service rooms that hid behind the dark wood paneling of the hotel lobby.

The clerks mumbled their thanks and hurried away, voices loud with excitement, leaving Vespasian gazing wistfully after them.

Their clerks, mostly in straw boaters, hurried along.

The clerk behind the counter hurried to serve him.

"Blasic Faloun, Banner-General," he said with a bow as the clerk hurried back to his table.

Turning, the clerk hurried to a comm terminal in the back office.

Here and there, chairs scraped across the plank floor as clerks who'd already anticipated his instructions hurried to tuck files into the appropriate cabinets.

The young clerk hurried to the half-open door on the left.

"If you lose that desk for me," Diana said under her breath as the clerk hurried toward the rear of the store, "I'll murder you."

A clerk hurried in with a bundle of papers, and stared about him.