stokers

He departed a 'Seedee boy,' as they call the stokers; he returned the full-blooded Sultan of Zanzibar -- His

Life's Handicap

The mechanic distrusts the machine which the traveller admires; and the officers of the army might be called the stokers of the Napoleonic engine, — if, indeed, they were not its fuel.

Modeste Mignon

Going above, Dave called the stokers and engineers out from among the prisoners, told them that he intended to send them to their posts, and asked them if they would pledge themselves to obey all orders and bridge signals, and not attempt any treachery.

Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers

I lost two Chinks there, stokers the both of them.

THE SEA FARMER

He saw the watch below of stokers and trimmers bobbing out of the forecastle doors like rabbits from a warren and making their way aft over the rusty deck to the mustering of the port doctor.

THE SEA FARMER

God, what an idiot I'd been-and that hitch Candy would be bedding one of the stokers on the Far West, no doubt.

Isabelle

Deryn pulled the stokers, and the engines roared beneath them, but the ranging needle was slow to climb.

Behemoth

Alek stepped inside and looked at the controls—a legion of unfamiliar dials and gauges, brake levers and engine stokers.

Behemoth

The emotion-stokers of fear and anger are at it again, promulgating these emotions that manipulate the debate on health care reform.

David Spiegel: Feeling Better? Emotions and Health Care Reform

The emotion-stokers of fear and anger are at it again, promulgating these emotions that manipulate the debate on health care reform.

David Spiegel: Feeling Better? Emotions and Health Care Reform