122 examples of janitors in sentences

Laura had forgotten a book which she prized highly and was in hope that the janitor, a good-natured old fellow, would let her in long enough to get it.

There's the janitor now, just going out.

" And run they did, presenting themselves a minute later, rather red in the face and out of breath, before a very much amused janitor.

They had precentors and janitors as in the Jewish rites.

The janitor stood there with a small key in his hand, which he threw down upon a table.

He was obliged to bribe the janitor, too, because the laws of the house permitted neither animals nor babies within its precincts.

Besides, doubts as to his own ability arose within him; it was all very well to practice his magic there alone, but he had not yet tried it on anybody except the janitor; and when he had begun by discovering several red-eyed rabbits in the janitor's pockets that intemperate functionary fled with a despondent yell that brought a policeman to the area gate with a threat to pull the place.

Besides, doubts as to his own ability arose within him; it was all very well to practice his magic there alone, but he had not yet tried it on anybody except the janitor; and when he had begun by discovering several red-eyed rabbits in the janitor's pockets that intemperate functionary fled with a despondent yell that brought a policeman to the area gate with a threat to pull the place.

I asked the janitor, and he said the house was not very well built and that the beams and wainscoting were shrinking.

"I called the janitor," she said, "and he came and we searched the entry; but there was no owl.

"That wretched janitor declared I had seen a cat," she resumed; "and I could not persuade him otherwise.

"Somethingyou can scarcely credit itand I dare not tell the janitor for fear he will think mequeer."

I don't care what the janitor says; I did hear squeals and whines and whimpers!

I've bribed the janitor to say nothing.

2. Clerks, messengers, janitors, etc., in the several departments, appointed by the respective secretaries.

That by which they should have entered was held close and guarded by several stalwart janitors.

But one thing more,how loud must I repeat, To rouse the engaged attention of the great,Amused, perhaps, with C's prolific hum, Or rapt amidst the transports of a drum; 30 While the grim porter watches every door, Stern foe to tradesmen, poets, and the poor, The Hesperian dragon not more fierce and fell, Nor the gaunt growling janitor of Hell?

The janitor's burlap sack yawns for this morning's mail; last year's gown has long ago met its end at the hands of the ol'-clo'es man or the wash-woman's daughter.

The janitor in the building where I work has told me that he has a rich cousin in England who is in the South-Western Railway and gets ten pounds a week.

As he hesitated to knock, the door opened, and a janitor came out.

The janitor unlocked this and threw it back.

The ushers, the personnel of the Secretariat, the guards and janitors, treated him with deferential intimacy, as a comrade on a somewhat higher level, but as much of a fixture as they were to the Spanish Congress.

Add to this a minute observation, a marvelous memory, ardent political convictionsand we can understand why the story here, with others of his, is taken as a scientific text by criminologists.EDITOR.) : 1,000 yards. : Janitors.

For two summers the women maintained that playground, holding their faith against the opposition of the janitors, the jeers of the newspapers, and the constant hostility of tax-payers, who protested against the "ruin of school property."

Bodley's Library has sheltered through three centuries many queer things besides books and strangely-written manuscripts in old tongues; queerer things even than crocodiles, whales, and mummiesI mean the librarians and sub-librarians, janitors, and servants.

122 examples of  janitors  in sentences