engine-drivers

This is what made it seem like a good idea to retire at 55 and give Greek engine-drivers a bonus of $5,000 a year if they washed their hands.

Johan Norberg: European Endgame Johan Norberg 2011

This is what made it seem like a good idea to retire at 55 and give Greek engine-drivers a bonus of $5,000 a year if they washed their hands.

Johan Norberg: European Endgame Johan Norberg 2011

He meets two adventurers in search of the Great Game; Daniel Dravot (Sean Connery) and Peachey Carnehan (Michael Cain) have been "soldier, sailor, compositor, photographer ... engine-drivers, petty contractors," [9] but now they want to be kings of Kafiristan, a small hamlet in the hills of Afghanistan.

Obama's AfPak Dilemma: The Man Who Would Be King Or A Noble Peacemaker? 2009

First came two great gaudy engines, the Grizzly Bear and the White Fox, with their respective tenders loaded with logs of wood, the engines with great, solitary, reflecting lamps in front above the cow guards, a quantity of polished brass-work, comfortable glass houses, and well-stuffed seats for the engine-drivers.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

Except the ticket-clerks, who are Chinese, and the guards and engine-drivers, who are English, the officials are

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The old man recalls aloud the expenditure of the day before, and writes down in a tattered notebook where and how much he had given to guards, engine-drivers, oilers ....

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

He was a short, wiry man with grey hair and a grizzled moustache, with about him that bearing of semi-humorous, frank-faced resolution which one notes about engine-drivers as a class.

The Beetle Richard Marsh

The water speedily put out the fires, compelling the engine-drivers to leave their station and ascend to the upper deck.

Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

( "The Children's Cry"), and described as well many a deed of daring by sea and land, in which sailors, soldiers, engine-drivers, policemen, life-boatmen, and coastguardsmen were concerned.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

If the roads are not kept in repair and the steamship lanes patrolled, if the rolling-stock is allowed to deteriorate and become liable to accident, if engine-drivers and helmsmen are intemperate or careless, if efficiency is not maintained, or if safety is sacrificed to speed, the public is not well served.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe