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  • Inside my stoker's singlet, in the armpit, I sewed a gold sovereign

    THE DESCENT

  • A young sot; a premature wreck; physical inability to do a stoker's work; the gutter or the workhouse; and the end -- he saw it all as clearly as I, but it held no terrors for him.

    A MAN AND THE ABYSS

  • Yer trouseys is wuth five bob to hany man, an 'a docker' ud give two an 'six for the shoes, to sy nothin' of the coat an 'cap an' new stoker's singlet an 'hother things.

    THE DESCENT

  • The vast and malodorous sea had welled up and over me, or I had slipped gently into it, and there was nothing fearsome about it -- with the one exception of the stoker's singlet.

    THE DESCENT

  • It will be remembered, at the outset, that I sewed a pound inside my stoker's singlet under the armpit.

    THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER

  • Yet the captain's head is close enough to the stoker's head that it's possible to kiss while riding.

    Moral Fiber, Not Carbon Fiber: Doing the Right Thing

  • Jack managed to travel about 200 miles as a coal stoker's assistant, but the rest of the way he rode on the roof of the train.

    ADOLESCENCE AND YOUTH

  • When he found out, he closed it up and strapped it back in its place at the foot of the stoker's bunk.

    The Stoker and the Stars

  • The term "cab" is also applied to the driver's or stoker's shelter on a locomotive-engine.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

  • Fred attended to him, doctored such of the crew as needed it, and successfully set a stoker's dislocated forefinger.

    Chatterbox, 1905.

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