单词 | lighterman |
例句 | The company employed lightermen - workers who used flat-bottomed barges to move goods between ships and quays - and they would pull up to collect their wages from 41 Rotherhithe Street. 'Leaning tower of Rotherhithe' sold for £1.5m 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Even in the 1970s, the estuary was busy with lighters and lightermen – lovely times, says Mr Pace, but all gone. There's a strange beauty to the Hoo peninsula. Is this any place for an airport? 2012-06-08T20:01:01Z All the firemen in London must be watermen or lightermen. City Scenes or a peep into London 2012-01-20T03:00:10.690Z For, you see, there are gangs who make it a practice to work with lightermen and with sailors; and sometimes by night, sometimes in open day—they carry off prizes that are pretty valuable. Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon 2011-07-07T02:00:30.453Z This being accomplished, the lighters are fumigated for twenty-four hours, and then taken back by the lightermen to the Sea of Azof. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Here lightermen and granary-keepers have stands as well as corn merchants, factors, and millers. Here and There in London He was the son of a lighterman, and for many years stood behind a counter and sold books. Old and New London Volume I These he exhibited with national pride to all the ignorant lightermen and watermen from the Nore to the Bridge. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing The old name for the lightermen of the Thames. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. If a shipman shall have been originally a lighterman, none the less he shall remain permanently among those among whom it shall appear that his parents had been. A Source Book for Ancient Church History Sir Alec does not know Dutchmen, especially lightermen, as well as I have learned to do, or he would have refrained from that extreme—and on the man's own barge. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon There some lightermen discovered him, picked him up, and carried him to the hospital; he recovered; he left the place. Napoleon the Little He called out to a lighterman, named George Woolass and another man who were on board of the vessel, to bring a boat and get the animal out. The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe She had been petitioned by people of all classes and conditions during the progress of the Bill, the demonstration of the watermen and lightermen of the Thames on October 8 having been especially noticeable. Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London Born in London, the son of a Thames lighterman. The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers "And now, Captain Morena," said Morris, "just walk on deck and explain matters to your people, and then I'll show you how fast a Yankee crew and Mexican lightermen can unload a contrabandista." The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales "Well, you see," Tommy replied, "it is true that in Ireland there are men of Cork and in Scotland men of Ayr, which is better still, but in England there are lightermen." Amusements in Mathematics There was also an excellent group on the left, the lightermen unloading the sacks of plaster being carefully and powerfully treated. His Masterpiece After old Jacob had fallen into ill health, lighterman Kristiansen used to come out oftener to Torungen with provisions and other necessaries; and his visits now became periodical. The Pilot and his Wife On arrival at Kiel, Crawford, after a short absence from the tug, was informed that three men had been inquiring from the lightermen and the tug's skipper about the nature and destination of the cargo. Ulster's Stand For Union But Riverside London was a far different place, here lived none but sailors, watermen, lightermen, and all those who had to do with ships and shipping, with the wants and the pleasures of the sailors. As We Are and As We May Be Ay, and after him There came up Guy of London, lettered son O' the honest lighterman. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Their suspicions were fully confirmed therein by the lighterman who saw Billings and Wood throw the same into the dock, as before mentioned. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences And her grandfather was cross enough himself; for he was afraid that he had done something foolish, and broken with the lighterman. The Pilot and his Wife Now he was a lighterman on the Seine rafts. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction The same year he put all the lightermen out of pay. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Add to these that the river was in a manner without boats, and all or most part of the watermen, lightermen, boat-builders, and lighter-builders in like manner idle and laid by. A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London The shouting of the lightermen and officers mingled with the roar and scuttle of the donkey-engine. The Centaur I wonder what the lightermen thought of you.” Pages from a Journal with Other Papers A gang of riggers, stevedores, or lightermen work the vessel into the stream. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 In this year there was a great council in London at mid-Lent, and nine ships of lightermen were discharged, and five remained behind. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle On December the 31st, what was presumed to be the body of William Kershaw was found by two lightermen: I have shown you a photograph of the place where it was found. The Old Man in the Corner After fifteen minutes' fruitless search, a lighterman suggested that the boy must be under the pier. Beneath the Banner Careful mariners were getting out their side-lights, and careless lightermen were progressing by easy bumps from craft to craft on their way up the river. Many Cargoes The declaration was, that, by the common law, every lighterman ought so to manage his lighter that the goods carried therein should not perish. The Common Law I engaged him to be the foreman of our lightermen, and caretaker of our jetty. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard It was only on the 31st," he resumed after a while, "that a body, decomposed past all recognition, was found by two lightermen in the bottom of a disused barge. The Old Man in the Corner The river police dragged for him, and the lightermen did all they could for some considerable time, but without success. Beneath the Banner The Company's lightermen, too, natives of the Republic, behaved very well under their Capataz. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard And although no promise laid, it seemed to the court that the plaintiff should recover; and not alleging that defendant was common lighterman was no harm. The Common Law |
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