baggagemen

Updated: June 18, 2025

Of rice, old shoes, and badinage there had been none, it is true. She stood quietly by while Buck attended to their trunks, just as she had seen it done by hundreds of helpless little cotton-wool women who had never checked a trunk in their lives she, who had spent ten years of her life wrestling with trunks and baggagemen and porters. Once there was some trifling mistake Buck's fault.

Edna Ferber - Emma McChesney and Co.

The hair on my trunk was soft and thick and youthful, when I got it ready for shipment in Hamburg; it was baldheaded when it reached Heidelberg. However, it was still sound, that was a comfort, it was not battered in the least; the baggagemen seemed to be conscientiously careful, in Germany, of the baggage entrusted to their hands.

Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad