foreman

• It is stated by the missionaries that when engaged in building their churches and schools they sometimes found they had a field-marshal for a foreman, a colonel for mason or carpenter, a major for bricklayer, and so on! —  The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar
• If Hanson is a conservative and a churchman, his foreman is a radical and a dissenter; and they neither of them pretend to dictate to their betters, which is more than I can say of some who call themselves reformers. —  Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher
• The light in the boy's face was worship, the foreman was his lord, head of his group. —  The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories
• I at once wrote DEAR SIR: It gives me great pleasure to comply with your request CHARLES G. LELAND I called the foreman, and said, "Mr. Chapin, please to set this up and pull half-a-dozen proofs." —  Memoirs
• Help was scarce and the scorn of the foreman was assumed. —  Blacksheep! Blacksheep!

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