| It was a policeman passing by, and the potman stood up alertly. |
| The artist beyond the outer bar had been talking to the potman. |
| He was equally unsuccessful with the potman who was just unlocking the doors of the public-house by Horsell Bridge. |
| And in a later work, The Dalkey Archive, he casts Joyce as an obscure potman in a pub south of Dublin. |
| David Bradley's lank Spooner, minor versifier and potman, is invited into the luxurious home of Michael Gambon's blazered Hirst. |
| By supporters of a bloke who can't tell a top-class jockey from a bar-room potman. |
