jarvies

I hastened to that stand of "jarvies" which has often been the hope and shelter of belated member of St. St.phen's, or bewetted fugitive from the Opera.

Pelham — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I hastened to that stand of "jarvies" which has often been the hope and shelter of belated member of St. St.phen's, or bewetted fugitive from the Opera.

Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The HOI POLLOI of jarvies or stevedores or whatever they were after a cursory examination turned their eyes apparently dissatisfied, away though one redbearded bibulous individual portion of whose hair was greyish, a sailor probably, still stared for some appreciable time before transferring his rapt attention to the floor.

Ulysses 2003

On the other hand he might be only bluffing, a pardonable weakness because meeting unmistakable mugs, Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner

Ulysses 2003

The sailor, who scarcely seemed to be a Dublin resident, turned to one of the jarvies with the request: —

Ulysses 2003

French dishes and gave orders to jarvies in high-pitched provincial voices which pierced through their skin-tight accents.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

Where Greenwich cads and Walworth jarvies beer it,

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 Various

Then came the hubbub of struggling jarvies; the hoarse, continued inquiries of those peculiar beings that emerge from some unknown quarter of the great metropolis, and "live and move and have their being" at the doorsteps of party-giving people.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various

They thought of army commissions and land agents: peasants greeted them along the roads in the country; they knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to jarvies in high-pitched provincial voices which pierced through their skin-tight accents.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

They thought of army commissions and land agents: peasants greeted them along the roads in the country; they knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to jarvies in high-pitched provincial voices which pierced through their skin-tight accents.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922