When Coleman awoke next morning, he looked back upon the poker game as something that had transpired in previous years. He dressed and went down to the grill-room. For his breakfast he ordered some eggs on toast and a pint of champagne. A privilege of liberty belonged to a certain Irish waiter, and this waiter looked at him, grinning. "Maybe you had a pretty lively time last night, Mr Coleman?英文原著 · 《Active Service》
At the moment a waiter entered the room and began to lay the table for luncheon. He kept open the door to the corridor, and he had the luncheon at a point just outside the door. His excursions to the trays were flying ones, so that, as far as Coke's purpose was concerned, the waiter was always in the room. Moreover, Coke was obliged, naturally, to depart at once. He had bungled everything.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Nobody was there. By-and-by the fun began. Sounds of all kinds and varieties were heard in every direction. They were all sick. There must have been 100 people aboard. I didn't see a single exception except the waiters and myself. I asked one of the waiters concerning the boat itself, and was taken to see the engineer, and went down to look at the engines, and saw the captain. But I kept mostly in the smoking-room.英文原著 · 《Edison, His Life and Inventions》
"I went out and sat down in the veranda. It was then about half- past ten. The ugly fellow whom I had noticed the evening before was hanging about, but presently a waiter came and spoke to him, and he got up with a grumble and went into the house. Ten minutes afterward my neighbor of the salle a manger came out. She looked very discontented. She rang a handbell that stood on the table, and a waiter ran up.英文原著 · 《Frivolous Cupid》
"All right," said he gaily, "we'll soon be on blue water: but first we'll have our dinner, old boy, for I am starving." David said nothing and went rather doggedly back to the inn with him. The steak was on the table. Alfred told the waiter to uncover and David to fall to, while he just ran upstairs to wash his hands. He came down in less than two minutes; but David was gone, and the waiter standing there erect and apathetic like a wooden sentinel. "Why, where is he?" said Alfred. "Gent's gone out," was the reply. "And you stood there and let him? you born idiot.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
"Parties are very confusing," philosophized Hope,--"especially when waiters and partners dress so much alike. Just now I saw an ill-looking man elbowing his way up to Mrs. Meredith, and I thought he was bringing her something on a plate. Instead of that, it was his hand he held out, and she put hers into it; and I was told that he was one of the leaders of society. There are very few gentlemen here whom I could positively tell from the waiters by their faces, and yet Harry says the fast set are not here."英文原著 · 《Malbone》
Where you work, the waiters eat with the waiters.美剧 · 《Friends》
Waiter? Waiter, excuse me, I'll have the fricken.美剧 · 《Friends》
If he sees me in another waiter uniform, I'm the sad girl always in the uniform.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
F.Y.I., Tiny Dancer, Prepping coffee is that lazy-ass day waiter's job,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》