"You'll find as you grow older that minor functionaries are the same the world over."
Rodin's father was then a minor functionary in the Paris police.
The man was, he knew, a minor functionary in the embassy, a third secretary.
"He is a minor functionary in city services," Ulot had explained.
But he was only a minor functionary at the time, and he didn't need a job.
Some minor functionary had had the office, but all the furniture was gone and the floor covered with plastic.
Several aides and minor functionaries fell in behind them, as did a silent honor guard.
This was not a press release from a minor functionary in a subdivision of the company.
With men around as minor functionaries, the women bond and thrive down the decades.
As a young man he was a minor functionary in the local administration of Chu.