lift boy BrE
elevator boy AmE

A lift boy or another minor figure can suddenly be quite startling."

"Through a friend who knows the lift boy here.

He was seen by the hall porter, the lift boy, and the chambermaid, all of whom are agreed on the time.

He then interviewed the hall porters and lift boys.

The concierge was summoned, the luggage porters, the lift boys.

I guess it's just one of the air lift boys got a little off course,' Darcy said when the sound had dwindled without coming near us.

He joined Bohemian circles and survived with little jobs such as post office helper or lift boy.

The hotel lift boy was showing off in his new high speed lift when a lady guest got in.

The lift boy pushed the button for the twentieth floor and the button for full speed.

The hotel perishes along with the greedy, yellow-eyed lift boy who is actually, in a touch of predictable melodrama, someone else.

He began earning his living at the age of thirteen, being a messenger boy, printer's devil, assistant in an electrical store and a lift boy.

"The lift boy?"

In the Hotel Savoy there is a Jewish hypnotist and a yellow-eyed middle-aged lift boy, watching everything and offering paltry scams.

Our gold-laced door-keeper recognized it and I heard him directing one of the lift boys to run after Il Conde with it.

Thus, with the lift boy Albert, he proceeds to Tuppence's place of imprisonment, but leaves a false message for Julius, indicating that he left for Argentina.

Meanwhile, Tuppence secures the cooperation of Albert, the lift boy at Mrs. Vandemeyer's residence, and obtains a job as Rita's maid.

The porter from their flat, Albert (Mrs. Vandemeyer's lift boy from The Secret Adversary) is their office boy.

They then go up in the lifts to the "Prince"'s suite but when they fail to appear some time later, the lift boy tells Tommy and Mr. Carter that he took them to a different floor instead.

The man who relieved him is off duty at present, as is also the night lift boy, and the chambermaid on late duty in M. Felix's corridor, but I will interview them later and let you know the result.

Under Bragg's guidance he interviewed a number of other servants, chambermaids, lift boys, shoeblacks, all of whom confirmed as far as they were able what he had already heard, and all of whom picked out Swayne's photograph from among the others.

He was undeterred by the barbed wire, lifting boy after boy of the boat's crew over it and dropping them sprawling into the boat, following himself, as the last, by swinging over on the spanker boom, and calling his last instructions as the painters were cast off.

Throughout the series they employ a man named Albert, who first appears as a lift boy who helps them in The Secret Adversary, and in Partners in Crime becomes their hapless assistant at a private detective agency; by Postern of Fate he's their butler and has been married and widowed.

The elevator boy let us off on the fourth floor.

The elevator boy turned around and looked at them as if they were crazy.

What made it even better, the new elevator boy was sort of on the stupid side.

And the day before the killing he had been up to her apartment, according to an elevator boy.

Everybody else had left for the day, and none of the elevator boys remembered taking him down.

And there he was down on his knees in front of an elevator boy, going after it like mad.

On the other hand, if anybody is going to stay, you're delegated as elevator boy!

We even thought the elevator boy smiled, and I looked rigidly ahead of me.

But he was staring moodily at the elevator boy and did not seem to hear.

The elevator boy brought in her luggage, and left.

The elevator boy slammed the door, pushed the starting lever.

Cranston realized that the elevator boy was watching him through a crack in the car door.

"Even an elevator boy couldn't make a scandal about Oliver.

Instead, he financed Jones, the elevator boy, for a year that he might write a book.

The elevator boy was surprised to see him.

As he exited, he saw the elevator boy grin at him.

The elevator boy looked at the well filled wallet with avarice gleaming from his eyes.

The elevator boy raised his eyebrows at her.

The elevator boy had noticed the paper after Finneran left this room.

The elevator boy told me three thousand tulips.

It was the elevator boy this time.

Arthur urged the elevator boy to greater speed.

The elevator boy didn't even see me.

In the doorway stood the elevator boy.