bargees

Your wife smiles for the first time these ten days; you pass by plantations of ship-masts, and forests of steam-chimneys; the sailors are singing on board the ships, the bargees salute you with oaths, grins, and phrases facetious and familiar; the man on the paddle-box roars, “Ease her, stop her!” which mysterious words a shrill voice from below repeats, and pipes out,

The Paris Sketch Book

This reluctance to accept the hassle of dealing with the drowned was not confined to bargees.

Archive 2004-11-01

This reluctance to accept the hassle of dealing with the drowned was not confined to bargees.

November 2004

This reluctance to accept the hassle of dealing with the drowned was not confined to bargees.

Robert Aickman

Peter had once asked one of the bargees the time, and had been told to

The Railway Children

The people on the canal were, of course, the bargees, who steered the slow barges up and down, or walked beside the old horses that trampled up the mud of the towing-path, and strained at the long tow-ropes.

The Railway Children

“Now then, all together, like bargees!” rose the merry voices of those who were moving the gun.

War and Peace

The very mention of his name affronts the brave Wardanenses to the last extent, making them savage as Oxford bargees.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

The people on the canal were, of course, the bargees, who steered the slow barges up and down, or walked beside the old horses that trampled up the mud of the towing-path, and strained at the long tow-ropes.

The Railway Children

Peter had once asked one of the bargees the time, and had been told to

The Railway Children