lightermen

At that the Pool became a scene of mad confusion, fighting, and collision, and for some time a multitude of boats and barges jammed in the northern arch of the Tower Bridge, and the sailors and lightermen had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed upon them from the riverfront.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

Greenwich Industrial History: more chimneypots and lightermen skip to main

more chimneypots and lightermen M 2008

Bridge, and the sailors and lightermen had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed upon them from the riverfront.

The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

She was the Murderer, bound for Gallows Bay; she was the Manslaughterer, bound for Penal Settlement; her captain ought to be tried for his life; her crew ran down men in row-boats with a relish; she mashed up Thames lightermen with her paddles; she fired property with her funnels; she always was, and she always would be, wreaking destruction upon somebody or something, after the manner of all her kind.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Therefore, going to Rochelle, he took shipping and arrived at Bordeaux, where he found no great exercise, only now and then he would see some mariners and lightermen a-wrestling on the quay or strand by the river-side.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Therefore, going to Rochelle, he took shipping and arrived at Bordeaux, where he found no great exercise, only now and then he would see some mariners and lightermen a-wrestling on the quay or strand by the river-side.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Amid shrieks of alarm and frantic activity along the Rhodian battlements, with great dexterity the lightermen berthed the sambuca side-on to the vast seawall behind which lay the temple of Isis; the moment the maneuver was over, the troop transports crowded round it.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

The three men got out again and went into a bar, empty except for two lightermen.

Maigret and Monsieur Charles Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1972

Her heart had thrilled with joy to see so many grip hands and stand together, officers and stewards and gasmen and lightermen and engine-drivers and cooks and draymen, from Adelaide to far-off Cooktown, in every port, great and small, all round the eastern coast.

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

Neither have I had any specific authority for supplying these persons with shovels, spades, and pickaxes, when employing them as laborers, nor with boats and oars when using them as lightermen; but these are not points included in Mr. Wickliffe's resolution.

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams