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 2006

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

Archive 2004-11-01 Michael Allen 2004

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

November 2004 Michael Allen 2004

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

Robert Aickman Michael Allen 2004

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

The Railway Children Edith 2003

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 Edith 2003

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

War and Peace 2003

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 2003

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 Edith 2003

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

The Railway Children Edith 2003