road-mender

Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book.

Les Miserables 2008

He was subjected to certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the cross-road from Gagny to Lagny.

Les Miserables 2008

They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking.

Les Miserables 2008

Almost immediately afterwards, seeing a road-mender who was standing holding his cap in his hand — which he had no doubt just reverentially doffed — I said in Welsh: “Who are those ladies?”

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

"More likely I'm someone very ordinary: a road-mender, or a wandering dog-barber."

Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975

With reference to the road-mender who fell down last week and injured himself an explanation has now been given.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 Various

If I were to follow my poor Joliet through all his transmigrations and metempsychoses, as I have learned them by his hints, allusions and confessions, I should show him by turns working a rope ferry, where the stupid and indolent cattle, whose business it is to draw men, were drawn by him; then letter-carrier; supernumerary and call-boy in a village theatre; road-mender on a vicinal route; then a beadle,

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

Considering its steepness the surface is quite good, but that is due to the industry of a certain road-mender with whom I once had the privilege to talk when, hot and breathless, I paused to enjoy the great expanse that lay to the south.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

"Do you imagine that if that road-mender over there had the money he'd be any more willing to give it up?"

Book 2, Chapter 5. The Egotist Becomes a Personage. 1920

A battle is a collective work, to which each participant, from the General-in-chief to the road-mender behind the lines, brings his contribution.

Georges Guynemer Bordeaux, Henry, 1870- 1918