| 单词 | yardman |
| 例句 | They were paying their respect to whatever it was that made him be a doctor in the first place, when the odds were that he’d be a yardman all of his life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a servant, a yardman, someone very low in the social order. For Ry Cooder, a Dog’s Life and a Deal With the Devil 2012-08-24T17:43:15Z The oddballs around her also lighten the mood: her hostile black housemaid; her dangerous, Byronic drug connection; and her wayward yardman. A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z "A cow don't weep, Jack," answered a maintopman who had been a lumbering bucolic dairyman when the Neversink left port six months since, but who was now a smart young light yardman. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z I've run an ore dummy in my time, when my husband was head yardman at an iron works, and I know how to climb. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z A yardman said later that as the train burst through the switches each car seemed to carry beneath it a huge ball of fire, caused by the wheels being dead-locked by the automatic brakes. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z A yardman let us in on the spur at the end of the headquarters building, and the boss was off in half a jiffy. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z Also, there was an Irish yardman who was carrying one of the lanterns and swinging it under the cars to show that the truss-rods and brake-beams were empty. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z Their action threw out of employment six thousand brickmakers, helpers, yardmen, and teamsters. 30,000 Locked Out. The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago. 2011-02-16T03:00:39.173Z The yardmen seemed to get on in the din by a system of strange yells. Careers of Danger and Daring "Do you mean to tell me that an experienced yardman, strong and intelligent as you appear to be, can sink so low without being a drunkard?" Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike Another young fellow brought out a typewriting machine; he is now yardman at a Suva hotel. The Call Of The South 1908 More than that, she made herself a heroine to every yardman in sight, and strengthened the new administration incalculably. The Daughter of a Magnate Switchmen, yardmen, firemen, had quit their posts, and they or sympathizing gangs of toughs stoned and cursed the men who took their places. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike There is an interchange of passengers every day, and several hundred yardmen, who work in His Majesty's naval dockyard, together with many naval men, leave Millbrook every morning. From Lower Deck to Pulpit Only a few yardmen were there to salute the colonel as he stepped from the ambulance. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt The remark had come from the yardman, not Mr. Carmichael himself, who had appeared too stunned to think of anything but his son. The Spinner's Book of Fiction Another minute and two or three early birds among the yardmen were climbing aboard and curiously, excitedly, peering over Geordie's head. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days Yet the yardman shook his head as he heard the squeal of the rusty journals, and ordered his men to pack in fresh waste and "touch 'em up somehow." Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila It does not include the labor of operating the plant, nor watchmen, yardmen, pipemen, and electricians. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 "Lower yardmen in the chains!" continued Gordon and his order was passed, along by the officers. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat His fireman had gone home, and so had the yardmen. The Taming of Red Butte Western "The town's been full of 'em since noon yesterday," said a yardman to Ben, in answer to his question. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days No sooner had the roads been returned under the new law, and before the board was even appointed, than a strike broke out among the switchmen and yardmen, whose patience had apparently been exhausted. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States One look into their faces, aided by the flare of a yardman's lantern, and the fellow turned tail and fled, shouting as he did so. Truxton King A Story of Graustark I taught the night yardman my call, so I could get half an hour's sleep now and then between trains, and in case the station was called the watchman was to wake me. Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio He was yardman and took care of the horse. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 At the first words spoken by the yardman, a quick glance passed between the two young men on the opposite, the fireman's, side of the cab. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days The other organizations of the railway workers, the shopmen, the yardmen, the maintenance of way men, the clerks, and the telegraphers were, at best, tolerated rather than recognized. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States Almost at once he brought about the adoption of the principle of collective bargaining for trainmen and yardmen. The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners To my surprise there was a representative from every branch of the service, passenger and freight conductors, brakemen, shopmen, yardmen, switchmen, and so forth. My Memories of Eighty Years The number of men actively on strike was in the neighborhood of 9000, including practically all of the shopmen, yardmen, and section gangs. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States |
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