The man dived into the small pocket of his white apron for a ticket and very coolly replied, "Shell out, old 'un.
The pretty girl of course finds the most customers, offering to "kiss the ticket for good luck," and on the sly, perhaps the purchaser also.
As government legalizes the lottery-ticket business, it opens the door for much gambling.
The lottery-ticket vender drowns all other cries in his noisy search after customers, reaping a large harvest, especially on Sundays, in this popular resort.
The Mexicans of the lower class are very superstitious, and will often pay a young and innocent child a trifle to select a ticket for them, believing that good luck may thus be secured.
The choicest residence we can remember on this thoroughfare stands between a large railroad-ticket office and a showy cigar store.
While we are making these notes, sitting upon the curbstone of a fountain of the paseo, we are personally reminded that the lottery ticket vender is ubiquitous.
In the plaza pretty flower-girls with tempting bouquets mingle with fruit venders, lottery-ticket sellers, and dashing young Mexican dudes, wearing broad sombreros heavy with cords of silver braid.
At the top of the ladder a man in uniform looks at our ticket and calls out the number of our cabin.
By which figurative language I mean to say that I don't see, that no ready interpretation presents itself, that I'm interested to know who persuaded her to take a ticket to the suburbs of hell.
They went down in an elevator to board the train and the ticket man at the gate would not let Mr. Horton through.
Mrs. Horton took a ticket from her bag and gave it to her son.
Heidelberg was the only place where I found lady ticket agents at the railway station.
Geneva is French, so I had some trouble in getting my information and procuring a ticket for Italy.
No one is allowed to go higher than the platform, except by special permission from the city authorities, and accompanied by a guide and protector, for which an extra ticket is required.
On Wednesday, July 21st, the eight day of my stay in London, I went to Charing Cross Station and procured a ticket for Paris.
Some accommodating Frenchman soon told me that he was traveling the same way for a considerable distance, (as his ticket also made clear to me), and offered kindly to inform me when I had to leave that train.
But our discouragement reached its climax, when I found that the door was closed and locked, which we had hoped was the ticket office.
I want a ticket such as I have described, and I want you to tell me which train to take to reach the destination, though I don't want to know what the destination is.
Then I will go with you to the depot, and will buy you a ticket to the farthest point from here that ten dollars will take you to.
I want you to give me a ticket to a point the farthest away from the city possible for that money.
The official looked wise for a minute, then took the ticket and passed on.
Here is ten dollars," said Mr. Bright to the ticket agent.
With this I got a cut-rate ticket home and surprised and horrified my parents by dropping in on them one morning just after prayers.
I got a ticket when I went in, and began to look around for my wheat.
Women fainted, ticketspeculators fell $2 on desirable seats, and strong men coughed up a clove.
At the window, his heart leaping with suspense, Rowland presented the ticket to the baggage agent, who with maddening deliberation moved slowly along an aisle, whistling and peering to right and left.
But how could he have redeemed the bag without the ticket in Drelich's pocket?
There was such confusion and such a rush at the ticket office that the man just asked me why I wanted to go; and I said I was American and rejoining my mother, and he flung me the ticket, only too glad to get rid of me.
The most wonderful thing was old Rowe's taking a cheap ticket and coming down to see me last summer.
Will you take your ticket for Custom House or Tidal Basin?
As McFarlane suspected would be the case, the ticket bearing the name of that student was no longer to be found!
He used to conclude the story as follows: "I just made a new ticket for him, and placed it on the top of the other tickets, and next day Sir William called him, the very first time.
Saying goodbye to her father, she bought a ticket and hastened into the big top.
As soon as the summer course begins, the Botanical Lectures commence with it, and the polite Company of Apothecaries courteously request the student's acceptance of a ticket of admission to the lectures, at their garden at Chelsea.
If de patrol ketch you wid out ticket dey beat you.
I 'member de people hab to git ticket for go out at night.
Used to have to get ticket from boss or Missus to go any place off de plantation widout you get punish for it.
Once a man offered to give me a ticket to a movie, but I told him to give me a plug of tobacco instead.
The paintings were sent, and Peter heard no more of them for a week, when a printed catalogue and perpetual ticket were sent to him, with the secretary's compliments.
She said "such ongoings would be her death;" and she almost wished that the lottery ticket had turned up a blank.
He went briskly up to the door, undismayed by a certain vacant air, and the ticket in the window.
There will be your ticket lost," said Jean, though in her heart she was almost glad to have a little time out of Margaret's presence to realize all that had passed on this agitating day.
Turning to the ticket seller, he told him to look the man up.
The little group made its way to the ticket office, where the owner first asked for an account of how the beast had made its escape.
A record of all the workers with their home addresses was kept in a card index and in a moment the ticket seller had ascertained that the dead man had a wife living in a small town in New York State.
In a little less than half an hour they had arrived at the circus lot, and true to his word, the advertising man carried Dick round to the ticket wagon and introduced him to the manager and owner.
They left their rifles and knapsacks in the ticket wagon, but Garry kept his lariat with him.
Well, the only thing that remained for her was to stultify herself as soon as she reached town, and to get another single ticket to take her back again.
She bought myticket and sent a telegram to let them know that I was coming.
She recalled, with a flush of shame, how, even at the booking-office window, she had told herself that the mere fact of her requiring a single ticket to London was sufficient proclamation to the world of what it was she meant to do.
How was she to return; to purchase even a third-class ticket to take her back again; to send a telegram advising her husband of the plight she was in, with threepence for her all?
Many cities have adopted the commission form of government by electing a non-partisan ticket composed of several commissioners.
He tried to perform on the telegraph instrument and cried "Boo" with all his strength at a lady, peering in at the ticket window.
Don't throw your ticket away when the train goes into a tunnel.
The line of ticket holders that gathered before the opening of the doors itself preached a sermon to the whole city.
A lot of people, from the way they live, make you think they've got a ticket to heaven on a Pullman parlor car and have ordered the porter to wake 'em up when they get there.
I took care of the old man all winter and in the spring I went to a relief society in Chicago and got him a ticket to his home and put him on the train and that was the last I ever saw of him.
Strange to relate his ticket drew the fortunate number, and Gonzales closed his eyes that night with a murmur like Monte-Cristo as he gazed upon the sea, "The world is mine!
Next he bought a $2 ticket from the state national lottery and with it sent a little line to the managers.
When Mr. Sborigi was asked for his ticketon the Vera Cruz line, he jokingly handed the conductor an envelope that he had put in his pocket at New Orleans.
Having obtained a ticket of admission to the castle from the governor of the National Palace, we took a party of tourists with us and proceeded to investigate.
The ticket would have shown which station was nearest the agent's house.
There are no such signs, and no ticket has been found.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ticket" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
