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These samples are compared with those by which the purchase was made; and if right, the bags are turned over to the dock-master, who sets his laborers to work loading ship.

All About Coffee 1909

"Well, if an Aleut can do anything wrong, that's what he's going to do," answered the dock-master.

The Young Alaskans Emerson Hough 1890

"I told you I was not the dock-master," said Arden rather coldly.

What Can She Do? Edward Payson Roe 1863

"Isn't the stage down?" asked Arden of the dock-master.

What Can She Do? Edward Payson Roe 1863

The lagging dock-master politicly kept out of the way till the work was almost done and then bustled up and made some show of assisting in time for any fees, if they should be offered, but Arden told him that since he had kept out of sight so long, he might remain invisible, which was the unpopular way the young man had.

What Can She Do? Edward Payson Roe 1863

But I had almost forgot to add that the daughter of the dock-master gave him a fine lace pocket-handkerchief and a card-case to remember her by; very valuable, but somewhat inappropriate presents.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

Hutchinson, dock-master of Liverpool, who seizing the idea, made use of copper lamps, and formed reflectors much in the same way as the gentleman before mentioned.

A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

She'll find her own way to Jamaica and back again by herself, without a hand at the helm, she knows it so well, "the captain, as he stood on the poop, sung out to the dock-master.

Old Jack William Henry Giles Kingston 1847