"Government man" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wasn't a government man, and I was only there because I had trained most of the teams. I'm willing enough to be the whole thing, but after all I've got some gumption, and I wasn't going to take hold of something that needed an experienced ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... delighted. But I'm still a woman and that gives me a right to be curious. What did the government man say?" ...
— Ten From Infinity • Paul W. Fairman
... does Bezonian speak or die?" asked Warrington. "Do we come out as Liberal Conservative, or as Government man, or ...
— The History of Pendennis, Vol. 2 - His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy • William Makepeace Thackeray
... together. He was recommended to me as a sort of secretary and assistant and knew more than I did about most things. When he caught sight of me he cried like a baby, and I sat down and heard what the trouble was, for I had let him go off with somebody who could give him a good salary,—a government man of position, and I thought poor Bob would be put in the way of something better. Dear me, the climate was killing him before my eyes, and I took passage for both of us on the next day's steamer. When I got him home I turned my bank account ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... at Thuillier's candidacy was mortal, but Minard did not profit by it. While the pair were contending for votes, a government man, an aide-de-camp to the king, arrived with his hands full of tobacco licenses and other electoral small change, and, like the third thief, he slipped between the two who were thumping each other, and ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac |
