plate-layer

Proceeding there in company with my eldest brother-in-law, a plate-layer and surfaceman on the Northern (he being uncertain about the Derby winner for that year), I was told by the person for a trifle of two shillings that I was soon to cross water and to meet many strange adventures.

Ruggles of Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

They traced their descent from a mythical plate-layer who had worked on the Sone Bridge when railways were new in India, and they valued their English origin.

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

From the mouth of the tunnel the plate-layer, the foreman and the navvies all followed with their eyes the unintelligible conversation passing between the gendarme and the tramp a hundred yards away.

Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894

"'Course, I'm not saying no, but I should like to see what sort of work it is they're doing here: it might not suit me; I shall still have time to get a couple of words with him," and with his eyes on the ground the tramp slowly walked along the embankment away from the plate-layer.

Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894

The plate-layer followed his glance, and also stood fixed.

Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894

A man approached the cabin allotted to the plate-layer in charge of that section of the line in which the tunnel was included.

Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894

The foreman met and passed him, and came up to the plate-layer at the mouth of the tunnel.

Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894

The man who spoke to the plate-layer was no other than François Paul, the tramp who had been discharged by the magistrate installed at the château of Beaulieu, at precisely the same time the day before, after a brief examination.

Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894

The next thing heard of him was when his dead body was discovered by a plate-layer named Mason, just outside

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

"I don't know," said the plate-layer; "but I suppose they have to get out at Brives or Cahors and drive, or else travel by the day trains, which are fast to Brives and slow afterwards."

Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894