| 单词 | navvy |
| 例句 | And Dan gave us a great segment about the thousands of navvies who worked like beasts and lived in mud huts. Rewind TV: Utopia; Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways; Funny Business; Blandings – review 2013-01-19T22:45:01Z He is also likened to a navvy, a sweep, a stiff Dutch doll, and an immense feather mattress. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navvy, apart from the litre of stout a day. Daniel Radcliffe: 'I'm not a one-trick pony' 2013-06-02T18:00:01Z Overworked 'taciturn navvies' sub-genre clutches chest, gasps; collapses to strains of exploding drain. TV turn-ons and turn-offs 2011-03-21T08:00:06Z I'm not advocating navvies but maybe we need a touch of 19th-century confidence. David Mitchell: Country dwellers moaning about high-speed trains is just selfish 2011-03-06T00:11:13Z They helped build the C&O Canal and worked as navvies, or laborers, in its port. One time ‘laborer’s cottage’ now a historic Georgetown house 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z He leaves for a better life with his mother’s brother in Leeds, where he becomes a navvy. Barbara Taylor Bradford writing prequel to A Woman of Substance 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Prof Rotherham said it may have originally arrived with Welsh "navvies digging out the cuttings for the canal systems". Why faggots travel and groaty dick doesn't 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z The scale of the work can be judged by the group of navvies gathered in the bottom right of the picture. Lord's cricket wrangle rumbles on for 19 years 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z They were known as the East London Group, and among their ranks were humble office clerks, a navvy, a window cleaner, a shop assistant, a printer, a basket-weaver and an errand boy. Art mystery: The famed painters who vanished into obscurity 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Using more colorful language, he described the larva turning the spider into a “drugged navvy.” A Wasp That Turns a Spider Into the Walking Dead 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z "In 1868 in Blackburn, a Tory voter was kicked to death by a gang of Irish navvies and, although people were not often killed, there was a certain relaxation of normality." Election 2015: Britain's first secret ballot 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z He said the stereotype of the Irish "navvy" - manual workers employed in the construction industry - often no longer applies. Is Birmingham still an 'Irish city'? 2014-03-15T01:23:04Z That may explain, if not excuse, why a navvy in Stacksteads, Lancashire who'd grown tired of married life, reverted to an old English custom. 10 bizarre Victorian love stories 2014-02-14T00:24:23Z They were mostly from local Welsh-speaking families but the high wages also attracted tin miners from Cornwall, Irish navvies and former coal miners. Llechwedd Slate Caverns tour revamp 2013-04-30T07:56:44Z Yet although 150 years separates them, the construction techniques used by the navvies and labourers who dug the Tube are at the heart of the capital's next-generation underground railway. The legacy left by Tube's navvies 2013-01-09T02:11:55Z But best of all was Beth Tweddle's retirement bronze – ethereal grace, true grit and the hands of a navvy. London 2012: the best moments of a golden Games 2012-08-13T10:00:00Z It lasted half the night, and then each clay-stained navvy and tattooed platelayer slept and snored where he fell. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Two navvies were arguing on education of the present day. Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z As far as what the navvies call the front, I had the benefit of the temporary railway by which Mr. Ross sends his labourers. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z The British navvy was in great request—in fact the day that Kent and Brown discovered England was this worthy's natal day. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z His age was sixty-six, and he had been in his young prime a navvy and road labourer. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Navvy, nav′i, n. a labourer—originally a labourer on a navigation or canal: a machine for digging out earth, &c.—called also French navvy:—pl. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z A clergyman who was an enthusiastic geologist always carried his specimens about in a handkerchief such as navvies use to carry their dinners in. Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z Operatives cutting down trees, navvies shovelling ballast upon the railway track, farmers plowing their fields, husbandmen pruning their orchards, stopped work and saluted or shouted a welcome as the train went by. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z He should have specified the make of barrow, for the kinds range through quite a number of varieties, from the coster’s barrow to the navvy’s and the gardener’s. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z But I shall get work in England—not a parson's; that I can never be again—but clerk's work, labourer's work, navvy's work, anything! Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z They go for wages, as the navvies do on railways, and the factory people in the towns. The Twa Miss Dawsons 2011-12-05T03:00:37.413Z One day, as he was returning home with the handkerchief full of specimens, he saw a navvy seated at the top of a well swearing vigorously because he could not make the windlass work. Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z He thought he might do the navvies good by the sight of him, and bless them with his tracts. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z A man's not a steam navvy—but the game's an old one. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Tramps sitting by the wayside, navvies and roadmen, hawkers with barrows—all were carving and eating their hunks. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z At first they relied almost entirely upon the West Indian negro, who formed the majority of the navvies employed under the French Companies. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z The "navvies" of the railroads carry this principle somewhat further. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:34.553Z Had Thomas Wanless known what was in store for him in the future he might have elected to leave Ashbrook for ever, and continue the life of a railway navvy. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z The Birmingham Water Works have influenced the town for good in one respect only: they have introduced a barber, who at the end of each week mows navvies' cheeks by the acre. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z The London navvies that night heard a protest against ‘the Chinese invasion’ of Britain. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z If the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian peasant were to turn his attention to this field, instead of, or in addition to, that of navvy work, great things might come of it. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z Hail to the navvies Laying pipes for pure water! The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z Railway making was at its height all over the country, and he had often thought of becoming a navvy. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z He still felt shocked and ill—the same sensation which he had once experienced on seeing two navvies fighting outside a music hall. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z The leather ought to be the thickest a shoemaker can give you, of the same sort as he makes the uppers of a navvy’s boots with. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z A navvy could have given him points in daintiness. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z I didn't steal any fish-plate," I remonstrated quaveringly, backing off down the track as the irate navvy advanced upon me brandishing a three-foot steel wrench; "I only borrowed a piece of rusty iron. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Much reason had he to thank the dairyman's wife for feeding him in his youth so as to fit him now for a navvy's toil. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z So they will go into France as navvies, by the hundred. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z "I feel rather like a navvy," he proceeded. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z In one place, patronised by navvies and their wives, there was such a hideous exhibition of indecency that I may not record it. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z He, a prince of the Church, was desiring to be a navvy for a space during which he could be unconditionally active. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z That book was studied by him as something fresh and altogether new on the lonely Sundays he passed amongst the navvies. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z An unexpected irruption of men—they may be miners or navvies or land-workers. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z A train conveying sixty navvies, who were employed to clear away the snowdrifts, ran into the down train from London. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z But let us pass, on leaving Rehoboth, a black and ugly carcass, on the point of being pulled down by the navvy. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z When it comes to women the quickest method is, after all, to be by profession a navvy.... The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z They drew together in the parlour of the inn, which most of the navvies frequented, and discussed things political and religious on the Saturday and Sunday nights. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Stalks and shoots, climbs in boots Like a navvy's not a dandy's, Ice-axe takes, records breaks— If not neck—on Alps or Andes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.207Z Four hundred navvies were at once set to work to form a dam of many thousands of sacks filled with earth. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z The digging of trenches and the making of fortifications were assigned to navvies, bricklayers, platelayers, and agricultural labourers, large bodies of whom were under railway gangers, and were ready to perform any excavation work. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z At the terrace of the Tuileries about twelve navvies sadly dug away at a useless fosse. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Such creatures as navvies were not, strictly speaking, human at all. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Foundations are usually executed by excavators or navvies, and the tools and implements used are boning rods, level pegs, lines, spirit level, pickaxe, various shovels, wheel-barrow, rammer or punner, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z But he looked almost as ghastly as Mildred did, when, aided by the navvy's strong arms, they lifted her over the huge masses of rocks and up the steep steps. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z We have formed a large class of men, the railway navvies, especially reckless, unmanageable, and dangerous. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z When the delegate offered the navvies 3 francs 50 centimes, the Committee of Public Safety, in the same column of the Officiel, offered them 3 francs 75 centimes. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Take them all in all, Thomas Wanless declared, the people who preached for a trade, be they dissenters or Anglican, gave him a lower idea of human nature than any navvy he ever met. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z This consists of rough boarding put along the sides of the trenches and wedged tight with waling pieces and struts; this work is done by navvies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The new railway had brought a large influx of navvies, and the public-houses were always full. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z “It’s O. K., else I wouldn’t have the navvies at work.” Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z One day when he was walking through one of the streets of Liverpool a navvy said of him, "There goes a king!" American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z A broken man when he left Ashbrook to become a navvy; his absence had not improved his position. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Concrete for filling into the foundations is usually mixed by navvies; for large works it is sometimes mixed by machinery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z We stood looking at it for full a minute before the navvy kindly rescued it.' Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z "My adventure with the navvies has been a very good thing for me, as some fellows say 'that little Hare has really got some pluck.'" Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z There were many sailors and marines knocking about the grog-shops, as well as the crowd of navvies and longshoremen always to be found lounging about a water-front. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z In one sense, this work was not so hard as a farm labourer's or a navvy's is, but it told on the health as much. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z His rage was awful; he beat her like a navvy. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z "I hope you are," says I; "it is n't in your station in life that you can go out as a navvy, and with your two daughters the greatest beauties in the town." The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Just then Hoare ran up breathless and panting, and threw himself into the hedge crying out, 'We are pursued by navvies.' Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The next day at dinner, to everybody's surprise, Mrs. Colston announced that in all probability Mrs. Waring was going next Sunday afternoon to hold a meeting among the navvies. The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z If you 'll not employ me in the mine, I must turn navvy.' Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z Our soldiers are working like navvies with shovels and picks in their hands. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Gabrielle's white hand smacked his face as soundly as though she had a navvy's hand, and she also paid him back for his words by throwing his hat to the other end of the room. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z Soon the great troop of navvies came up, whose sudden appearance from the mouth of a tunnel, each with a long iron torch in his hand, had made the horses bolt. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z There was now a little band of four Christians among the navvies. The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z You have worked him like a navvy, and never given him enough pocket money to keep him in tobacco even. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Whisky had made him as drunk as a navvy who had spent his week-end in debauchery on receiving his week's wage. The Man Who Rose Again But happily that kind of criticism is soon forgotten whose principle is, like that of Mr. Punch's navvy, “Here’s a stranger, let’s ’eave ’alf a brick at him.” The Cabinet Minister A farce in four acts Another navvy supported Lea, who was in a fainting state, and others carried torches. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z He–ah–reminds me so much of a navvy, you know.” Into the Primitive My mother was not strong enough for the task, and making sure that my leg was crushed, she shouted and fetched the navvies and the brewery workmen; they delivered me. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster It was curious to observe a grimy navvy enter by the back door, to appear in the drawing-room later dressed in a lounge suit, with hair carefully parted. The Gay Adventure A Romance Everybody recognizes that the army contractor who, in time of war, set several hundred navvies to dig an artificial lake in his grounds, was not adding to, but subtracting from, the wealth of the nation. The Acquisitive Society The other day, coming out of this garden, the Bishop heard two navvies on the other side of the road talking. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z On the other hand, a careless observer, at first glance, might have mistaken Blake, with his flannel shirt and shouldered club, for a hulking navvy. Into the Primitive After getting in the dock, the navvies were sent back on the tug. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document "Do these men understand that they are enlisted as soldiers, not engaged as navvies?" asked Maitland. Tony Butler "Where'd you get that dress-suit?" she asked at length, in the tone a policeman might adopt to a navvy found wearing a diamond tiara. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle Don't worry about that, my dear," he said without much conviction; "but these housemaids seem to think an artist is a sort of navvy who only wants a pen and everything's all right. Helena Brett's Career But there was nothing of the navvy in his swinging stride or in the resolute poise of his head as he came up with Winthrope. Into the Primitive A few English navvies were hired to assist working the ship. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document She was rolling up her sleeves to the shoulders, displaying a pair of arms that would have been useful to a navvy or a drayman. Harley Greenoak's Charge The navvies shrank back in half dread at the strange sight for a few minutes; and when, recovering, they would have advanced, Brace motioned them back, and he alone heard his father’s words. The Sapphire Cross At Batty Green the navvies declared that they were in one of the wildest, windiest, coldest, and dreariest localities in the world. The Cruise of the Elena or Yachting in the Hebrides There was two thousand navvies on it—all young—all strong—an’ I was one of ’em. Rewards and Fairies Why, he himself said it was full of navvies and counter-jumpers. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley As he builds up and smokes a cigarette, the doctor tells me that the navvies and teamsters have a singularly critical taste in the matter of medicine. Seeds of Pine They are counted by hundreds, and are found among navvies, builders, masons, carriers, stevedores, agricultural labourers and other workmen, and have carried out very great works in Italy and in foreign countries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Here is papa's latest: One of his High Church confreres had been diligently expounding to a navvy the doctrine of the Trinity, and was boasting to papa of the intelligence of his neophyte. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Strange warfare this, going into a fight like a navvy. On the right of the British line We also find Proudhon, again distorted, in Dühring's statement that the time spent in work by various workers, whether they be navvies or sculptors, is of equal value. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory A bottle that gets by them is worth ten dollars, but the navvies declare whatever it costs it is worth it. Seeds of Pine Why does a lawyer work as no navvy works? The Hills and the Vale Now I maintain that papa's in the wrong about the navvy, and that the ritualist clergyman had no reason to be so utterly disconcerted, as papa declares he was, at this naïve answer. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. A weakling may have no option but to follow an unhealthy trade, a man is a tailor or shoemaker, because he has not the physique for smith or navvy. The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics To be sure, one could manage to creep to the other side by the submerged coping of the parapet, if endowed with the balancing powers of a rope-walker and the lustihood of the navvy. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) Indeed, his dress and deportment were such as to often cause scandal to good church folk who were not so conversant with his noble deeds and self-abnegation as were the railroad navvies and gold-miners. Seeds of Pine On the navvy declining to pay the exorbitant price asked, the landlady, with a face like a peony, angrily told him he must either pay for the gin or instantly return it. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years Object, to promote the spiritual welfare of navvies working on railways, docks, &c. The Church Handy Dictionary Chinese navvies first came to Canada to aid in building the government sections of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time You see, these people were navvies, or navigators, although it strains one's sense of language to describe them so. When Ghost Meets Ghost In one thing only is the gang agreed, no navvy has yet been found who disputed the axiom that the Boss is a yellow canine. Seeds of Pine A navvy at Kilsby, being asked why he did not go to church? duly answered in geological language—“Why, Soonday hasn’t cropped out here yet!” Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years Now the big navvy waded back, and a second net—a drag-net—was carried to the foot of the pool. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Plant was assembled in Canada, orders for rails and equipment were placed in England, and navvies came out by the thousand. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways For in time the lowest navvy was threatened with death by misadventure, unless he come up time enough to avoid the water. When Ghost Meets Ghost It is about the navvies and teamsters I would talk and not of hollow-stomached men who gather much money. Seeds of Pine The navvies were the more willing to engage in such undertakings, because the project, if carried out, afforded them the prospect of increased labour. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years The navvy pulled hard, but to no purpose. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts The navvies and other workmen who had been employed in the construction of the canal, were also regaled on the boats, and afterwards feasted at the Greyhound. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time He was a prehistoric navvy, who had become a watchman, and was responsible for red lanterns hooked to posts on the edge of chasms to warn carts off. When Ghost Meets Ghost Time was when men only choked on grape seeds as did the old poet chap, Anacreon, but in these days, the navvies get appendicitis from them. Seeds of Pine One doesn’t perspire in such awful straits––one sweats, like a navvy. Officer 666 The gigantic navvy broke away from his captors and ran. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Communi237cation with Albany, the base of operations, is of course maintained by means of the line, some of the navvies even coming from and returning thither each day in the trucks. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Of course, they had to be taught, and they did not like the big navvy shovels. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule One of the navvies will give me a talisman if I cannot find the cordial tree for which I search. Seeds of Pine He arrived at a terrific malediction which he had found effective many years before in dealing with Italian navvies. The Island Mystery Smiley was a little twisted old fellow, but Young Bill was a gigantic navvy, powerful as a five-year-old bull. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts We need not refer to the wages of railway navvies, nor yet to those of the superior classes of mechanics, such as printers, masons, jewellers, typefounders, etc. Leading Articles on Various Subjects These men are not so strong as they seem, and they are not worth nearly so much as English navvies. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule I have just been reading the first book that I've found that absolutely gets the atmosphere of the Western Front—namely, "The Red Horizon," by Patrick McGill, the navvy poet. War Letters of a Public-School Boy All night long gangs of navvies in squads were working at the fortifications by searchlight. The Traitors And then a very stout man in a navvy's garb blocked up his passage. Lover or Friend The labor market also was but scantily supplied, and agents for procuring navvies were despatched east, west, and south. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 The English navvy eats about two pounds of beef for his dinner and washes it down with about two quarts of ale. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule I'd like to see you managing a field of navvies with that nice little voice of yours—ay, or a mob before the hustings, my boy. Phoebe, Junior He looked as strong as a navvy; and his shoulders reminded me of one of those men one sees in brewers’ drays. Not Like Other Girls He was not a navvy either, but a merchant of good standing. Home Life in Germany The navvy was not simply going away, he had the air of a man in flight. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Once a railway navvy, always a railway navvy, is a well-known and very true saying. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The difference in productive capacity between an English and a Hindoo navvy is considerably greater than the difference between a Lancashire mill operative and an operative in an equally well-equipped and organised Bombay mill. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production Well, and what did the navvy say to you?” Not Like Other Girls A decent workman was having a gashed hand dressed and strapped, and a navvy with bandages about his head was being led away by a friend. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator He slipped through with a forceful push and caught the navvy by his jacket. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas The men work as well as they can, but they do not get over the ground like English navvies. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Thirteen men with a machine-navvy can do the work of between 60 and 70 human navvies. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production In the meanwhile an army of navvies was drafted to the spot, and worked day and night to repair the damage. Mugby Junction But I had had no part nor lot in the preservation of that navvy's simple patriotism. The Message The navvy had given him so strange a look. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas "The men build stone walls with great skill," said Mr. Wood, "but half the number of English navvies would do more excavating." Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Day was just breaking this grey December morning, when the gang of navvies set to work under a foreman, fixing on the down line the new sleepers which had been brought up the day before. Fantômas The “railway navvies,” as they are called, were men drawn by the attraction of good wages from all parts of the kingdom; and they were ready for any sort of hard work. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson The first remark was from a man dressed as a navvy, with a short clay pipe in his mouth. The Message Fandor saw the navvy descend from the taxi, pay his fare, and enter the house, still keeping his right hand pressed to his cheek. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas He has got the manners of a gentleman, but he walks like a fell shepherd, and his hands are like a navvy's. Hawtrey's Deputy 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 During the railway-making period the navvy wandered about from one public work to another—apparently belonging to no country and having no home. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Hundreds of ruined farmers and small landholders were working as navvies at bridge and road and railway repairs. The Message Quick as lightning the navvy turned, and the two men stood face to face.... Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas A bad case was that of a bullying railway navvy, who, having knocked his wife about and upset his old father, went off ostensibly to work. Change in the Village Sergeant Doucet reached the top of the embankment at last and hurried past the navvies, who stopped their work to stare inquisitively after the representative of authority. Fantômas While he thus easily ran out some 3 or 4 cwt. at a time, the French navvy was contented with half the weight. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Soon after dawn, the young navvy, going to his work by a short cut, found Smith still asleep, and shook him till he got up. The Toilers of the Field Fandor, who was following now and keenly observant, noticed the hesitating movements of the man—then there was an astonishing move on the navvy's part: he hailed a taxi and got in. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas And yet by the look of him that fellow could do a hard day’s work with any British navvy.” Lorimer of the Northwest A certain navvy, who happened to be married to a very violent woman, a regular virago, was asked why he allowed his wife to abuse him, or use such intemperate language. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Reckless alike of their lives as of their earnings, the navvies worked hard and lived hard. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson The young navvy had to find his own liquor. The Toilers of the Field The navvy was swiftly mounting the stairs in front of our excited young journalist, who was close on his quarry's heels: the two men were panting as they went up that dark staircase. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas I employ hard labour; I need mechanics, navvies, joiners, well-sinkers, and you can only sit and write. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories We have here work done and energy consumed, just as much as if the same task had been accomplished by engineers directing the powerful arms of navvies. The Story of the Heavens They entered the tunnel’s mouth preceded by upwards of fifty navvies, each bearing a torch. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson But the navvy's wages were the same all the year round, while his in summer were often nearly double. The Toilers of the Field Satisfied as to this, Fandor followed with his eyes this strange navvy who was going further and further away. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas The pickaxe of the ditcher, and of the canal and railway navvies, have often also, by their accidental strokes, uncovered rich antiquarian treasures. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 The great mass of the crowd were laboring men of all kinds, soldiers, sailors and navvies. My Father as I Recall Him These men, with the exception of this former servant of Mr. Elsey, were all “bankers,” as they were then called, i.e., navvies; and such men in those days were usually a very truculent class. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter These, the Songs of a Navvy, bearing the taint of the brute, Unasked, uncouth, unworthy out to the world I put, Stamped with the brand of labor, the heel of a navvy's boot. Modern British Poetry A drinking-room with a blue or a brown curtain would offer no attraction to the thirsty navvy who likes to have his thirst indulged without criticism. The Vicar of Bullhampton Also, the navvy who works on embankments, cuttings, &c. 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. He has got the manners of a gentleman, but he walks like a fell shepherd, and his hands are like a navvy’s. Masters of the Wheat-Lands A navvy employed in digging or repairing fen drains. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Among the crowd were soldiers, navvies, and labourers of all kinds. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 The great mass of the crowd were labouring men of all kinds, soldiers, sailors, and navvies. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Also, a man who works on the sides of a canal, or on an embankment; a navvy. 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. "He has the mind of a navvy and the tastes of a bookmaker." The Day of Judgment For trench life a man needs the stomach of a horse, the strength of a lion, and the nerves of a navvy. The Kangaroo Marines I thoroughly enjoyed it all the same, and all the while did my full share of navvy work. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" It may be a good thing; but, anyhow, most readers would be mildly surprised if a newspaper leading article were written in the language of a navvy. Eugenics and Other Evils Others again are engaged in carding and combing wool, navvies are digging irrigation canals, chemists are manufacturing saltpetre and gunpowder, armourers are making or mending firearms. Modern Saints and Seers “Oh, I’d employ thousands of navvies to dig a big drain and let the water right off.” The Golden Magnet The bucolic M.P. collapsed in his seat, wiping the perspiration off his beetled brow with the aid of a navvy's red handkerchief. The Kangaroo Marines Gangs of navvies went to work laying railway lines across the veldt in Bechuanaland. Gossamer 1915 We know digging means work, and some Christians are so very respectable, they would feel insulted p. 37if God asked them to become one of His navvies. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet He had the body and muscles of a dock navvy, which Nature started out to make. The Ultimate Weapon She was surprised to hear Mr. May's opinion of the navvy. The Lost Girl For two days they had slaved like navvies—digging, sand-bagging, reorganising trenches, improving communications, and bringing up supplies, Maxims, and ammunition. The Kangaroo Marines Bred from a navvy stock, Old Nelly had wandered over the world for many years, from one mining camp to another. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Thus one hour's work of a doctor will have to be considered as equivalent to two or three hours' work of a hospital nurse, or to three or five hours' work of a navvy. The Conquest of Bread They were navvy’s boots, and worth in England about 15 shillings. Handbook to the new Gold-fields "He's a handsome young man, now!" exclaimed her companion one evening as the navvies passed. The Lost Girl A couple of policemen walked this navvy quietly from the scene, as Dale called out: “Down with her, boys!” Fighting the Flames My friend the carpenter thus artfully ‘pointed his moral,’ in order to make us work the harder at the novel navvy work at which we were engaged—strange, at least, to us sailor-folk. The Island Treasure He was evidently, from the tone of his voice and manners, a gentleman by education, though in appearance as rough and weather-beaten as a navvy who has put on a black coat for Sunday. A Voyage round the World A book for boys Near at hand was a beer-shop, frequented by the navvies and carters. Stories of Animal Sagacity At that moment she would cheerfully have gone along with the navvy. The Lost Girl The rascal has not been running his eye over young women all these years without being able to spot them in a moment, even in navvy's clothes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 When two nobles had a quarrel, they fell upon one another then and there like drunken navvies, and Potemkin had an eye gouged out in a court brawl. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. R. says it is difficult to prevent the native navvy making geometric designs with the coloured quartz. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah For me the navvies work in the road where I pass And I want to smite in anger the barren rock of each waterless brow. New Poems A duke may become a navvy for a joke, but a clerk cannot become a navvy for a joke. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens "And I was a navvy before the war, and joined up for a change." Pushed and the Return Push Some navvies received their mobilisation orders on returning to their camp after ten hours' work at railway-building. Bulgaria Now let us instance a case in which the Police had to deal with turbulent navvies on the railway who went on strike and threatened to destroy the company's property. Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police Well, on Monday a couple of burly navvies, carrying a big paper parcel, came up to the Wire office and Brashton saw them. The Grell Mystery Many of them, however, appear to be very gentlemanly navvies! The Lifeboat Soon after that, two navvies were observed walking coolly and slowly on the line in front of the engine. The Iron Horse He began to see that, as far as the nature of his daily toil was concerned, he worked harder, and was worse off than the poorest navvy who did the dirtiest work in old England! Digging for Gold Adventures in California He laboured each day with pick and shovel with the energy of a hero and the dogged perseverance of a navvy, and each night he went to Lantry’s store to increase his gains by gambling. Twice Bought The difference between the navvies and their nobility was not great. Six Months at the Cape It seems as if we had got into a region inhabited solely by navvies. The Lifeboat If ill-advised or angry navvies were to refuse to work, what could directors and engineers do? The Iron Horse It happened to be that of a third class, which was full of navvies and mechanics. Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn There is an army of moral navvies labouring here, who are continually unearthing these gems, and there are others who polish them. Post Haste It is sad to see the broken-down old fellows as porters at the railway-stations, panting with heavy trunks, and the same type among gangs of navvies repairing the roads. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Now, Walters at the George gives a navvy the horse I hired. The Gold Trail If, on the other hand, ill-advised or angry directors and engineers refused to pay, what could navvies do? The Iron Horse The chief customers of the place were labourers and navvies, who by their noisy jargon were evidently innocent of all pretensions to a foreign tongue. Roger Ingleton, Minor Ah! that was the very bank on which he sat; and there beyond was the railway embankment at which the navvies were working, now finished and with the grass growing up its sides. A Dog with a Bad Name Between the wigwam and the pavement a gigantic navvy was hewing wooden paving-blocks out of the roadway. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Instead, he let that waterworks chief navvy fellow have her. The Gold Trail It was in the formation of this, the true beginning of railways, that the British “navvy” was called into being. The Iron Horse Dravidian, caste of navvies and labourers found in Jubbulpore and the adjoining Districts, to the number of about 1500 persons. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala He passed a railway embankment where a gang of navvies were hard at work. A Dog with a Bad Name The navvy was a fine specimen of humanity, with a complexion tanned a dusky coffee colour. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton The navvy seems to work slowly; but he knows well, because his task is a day-long one, that his forces must be economised, that over-exertion must be avoided. Ranching, Sport and Travel This body of strong “navigators” or “navvies” formed the nucleus, which gathered recruits from all parts of the kingdom. The Iron Horse Here they are navvies and masons, a calling which they have generally adopted since the Government monopoly has interfered with their proper business of salt-refining. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Jeffreys thought no more about the navvies, or the delights of a labourer’s life. A Dog with a Bad Name I went home to breakfast, wondering where I had seen the big navvy's back before. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton What a pleasure it is to watch a good expert workman, be he carpenter, bricklayer, ploughman, blacksmith, or only an Irish navvy. Ranching, Sport and Travel These managing and guiding men having been appointed, the physical workers are then called into action, in the form of bands of navvies. The Iron Horse They came from the navvy shelter, and Tom could hear plainly every word. Chatterbox, 1905. The rascal has not been running his eye over young women all these years without being able to tell them in a moment, even in navvy's clothes. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions The smaller navvy, thus exhorted, administered the desired clip. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton The rain, that falls alike upon the just and unjust, was to hamper Mr. David Davies’s army of navvies, but never to deter them from reaching and abiding at Machynlleth. The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway Our navvies now travel for next to nothing in luxurious ease at thirty miles an hour, and our very beggars scorn to walk when they can travel at one penny a mile. The Iron Horse Tom knew that the navvies at work in the district were not regular workmen, but a very rough set. Chatterbox, 1905. Unfortunately, while we were fighting each other in the dark, like a lot of drunken navvies, Mr. Wayne's friends were working very hard indeed. The Napoleon of Notting Hill A large proportion were Austrian laborers who had been railway navvies. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights On the line, however, the navvies went doggedly digging on, despite atrocious weather. The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway One friend offers a phalanx of English navvies; but temperate counsels prevail, and it is thought better to get the really small number of men required brought in quietly. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. It is told of Daniel Webster, walking in London, that a navvy turned to his companion and remarked: “That bloke must be a king!” Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View A French navvy received 8 cents a day in 1550, a carpenter as much as 26 cents. The Age of the Reformation Now the average man, in the world as it wags, is a farm-labourer, an artisan, a mill-hand, a navvy. Post-Prandial Philosophy While the man stood there fishing, along came two navvies; naturally enough they went quietly up to see what the fisherman was doing, and one instantly uttered an exclamation. Nature Near London It is told that one day when he was walking through a street of Liverpool, a navvy said of him: “That must be a king!” Stories of Later American History But the persons of my Vision—naked gods and navvies—had vanished. News from the Duchy Old "Smolley," an antique "navvy," had just disposed of a supply of rugs and was wending his way homeward at the same time. I Married a Ranger Up at five in the morning and working about the place like a navvy till your back feels as if it 'ud break, and then back again in the afternoon. The Land of Promise They are not alone engaged in agricultural pursuits, but perform the work of navvies, making roads, and along with the men digging railway embankments. Roumania Past and Present While the railway which connects two northern capitals was being built, two brothers from Ireland, named Doolan, were engaged upon it in the capacity of navvies. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country The whole scene, barring the concertina and the navvies' clothes, might have been transformed straight from a Greek vase of the best period. News from the Duchy When the day's work was over, these sailor navvies would all bear a hand to get matters right for the night and the next day. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 These factors probably explain the comparative frequency of aneurysm in those who follow such arduous occupations as soldiers, sailors, dock-labourers, and navvies. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. It would have broken the back of the most able-bodied navvy; and when we reached the boat at sunset, we had scarce strength left to eat our supper and roll into our bunks. Pieces of Eight Of course, he was not a hard physical worker—i.e. he did not do the work of a navvy. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine Here is another characteristic trait: some navvy had found an old rusty anchor near the Thames Tunnel, one of Brunel's ruinous follies,—now, as we all know, finished and utilised by a railway. My Life as an Author Where the work went on in the valley I had a couple of tents for my gang of navvies, some of whom were sailors. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Organized bodies of navvies are slowly but surely ruining the streets. Berry And Co. There was no more thought of battle or broil; and there were as many navvies as University men among the enthusiasts who bore the champion on their shoulders into "The George." Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' It was from Ladcock at Gilgit, saying that he was having a row of his own with the navvies there, and that he could send no reinforcements at present. The Half-Hearted But alas! poor Normans! in the sixteenth century old Harry pulled the grand church down above their heads; in the nineteenth the navvies, making the railroad, disinterred their bones. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars London was now awake; the streets were a-clatter with cabs; the pick of the navvy resounded; night loiterers were disappearing and giving place to hurrying early risers. Mike Fletcher A Novel Passing some navvies in the City who were digging for the foundation of a house, he observed a very antique-looking vase, wet from the clay, standing on the bank. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 They were not shouting like the rest, but hitting out straight and remorselessly; and before those two strong Promachi, townsman and navvy, peeler and special, went down like blades of corn. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' For it has turned out, that when the Continental navvies live in the same style as their English competitors, they presently rise, more or less nearly, to a par with them in efficiency. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library I heard an old navvy protesting once that "Lady —— never troubled to shake 'ands with him any other time, but was generally that 'orty she'd step over you as soon as look at you." Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." She hated the way he sat down in front of it; in a heap, like a tired navvy. The Judge "He can do things, can our navvy poet." The Amateur Army The navvy that lifted the first spadeful of earth in excavating for the railway line, and the driver of the locomotive over the completed track, are partners in the success and in the joy. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII And then, just when she began to feel it was a pretty big task to find her husband among that dollop of navvies and quarrymen, if she didn't run right on top of him! The Torch and Other Tales The Irish emigrant seldom or never takes to the land when he goes to America, and navvy work just suited him. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Bob Polter was a navvy, and His hands were coarse, and dirty too, His homely face was rough and tanned, His time of life was thirty-two. Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs These white lines are the new railroads of England, and the myriad ant-heaps along them are the navvies. Recent Developments in European Thought Then on, over the short grass, under the noble trees, we walked; Milly in high good-humour, and talking away volubly, in her short garment, navvy boots, and a weather-beaten hat. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Had our sort of navvies been concerned there would have been words of heat and colour. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Though I'm rigged like a navvy, she'll love me no less. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Harvey was followed to the grave by a procession of white-smocked navvies. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically What is a navvy and how does he live? Recent Developments in European Thought And she glanced from mine to hers, and made a little kick up with the heel of the navvy boot to assist her in measuring the comparative distance. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh A gang of platelayers and navvies were making a new siding by the station, and sounds of hammering also came from the engine shed. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria The navvy workmen, who have made the railways and docks of England, are a hard-working but a rather thriftless set. Thrift We were, however, doomed to disappointment, for, as the railway was being cut through there, the whole place was completely filled with engineers and navvies, who had taken up all the accommodation. From John O'Groats to Land's End In the forties the navvies are getting 5s. a day, and for tunnelling and blasting even more, but they are a rowdy crowd, and many of them are Irish. Recent Developments in European Thought Just simply remember that Nature does make mistakes sometimes; that she has been known to put a horse's head on a sheep's shoulders and to make a navvy's son look more royal than a prince. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces The navvies were already on their way; and as soon as ever the road was passable he should know. The Marriage of William Ashe The contractor recognized in the man one of his former navvies. Thrift One day a powerful navvy was brought into the barrack a total collapse from drink, and absolutely helpless. True Irish Ghost Stories The English navvy too keeps out the Irishman if he can. Recent Developments in European Thought I have before me an account by a Highland officer of the relation between a navvy and a regular battalion in the Ypres salient. Fields of Victory I wore shoes innocent of blacking and made after a pattern much admired among navvies. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" He thought of the numerous other navvies who must be wanting similar help. Thrift The line was crowded with dark-faced navvies, watching the passage of the train as it crept forward. Lady Merton, Colonist In the South of England wages are lower and the navvies are less expert. Recent Developments in European Thought Between the British navvy battalions, many of them elderly men past military age, or else unfit in some way for the fighting line, and their comrades in the trenches, there were generally the friendliest relations. Fields of Victory He was suffering besides from a haunting sense of contrast between these rainy November days, and the glowing harvest weeks in which he had worked like a navvy for and with Rachel Henderson. Harvest Even the ladies, regardless of blisters and the snowy whiteness of their hands, revelled in the role of navvy. The Siege of Kimberley What kind of spirit is there in doing the work of navvies? The Last Shot The riff-raff from the villages cannot work stroke for stroke with the navvy. Recent Developments in European Thought With State tobacco farms and the public organisation of a corps of peripatetic State navvies, the childhood stage of the Fabian Society may be said to conclude. The History of the Fabian Society The white man cannot or will not do much with his hands out here, so the navvies are slim-looking blacks, who jabber and grunt and sigh a good deal more than they work. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Father took off his coat, and worked like a navvy, and Forest hoisted him up to get at the wire along the wall. Elizabeth's Campaign "Digging like a navvy in order to get admission to the abattoir!" The Last Shot The high wages of the navvy are offset by the disadvantages of his employment. Recent Developments in European Thought However, the fact of the navvies being at work so close to a church whose chancel belonged to my family afforded an excellent motive for my visit. Aylwin I am constructing a railway-line, my friends; I have employment for heavy labour: I need mechanics, smiths, navvies, carpenters, well-sinkers, and none of you can do anything but sit and write! The Chorus Girl and Other Stories One a stalwart, big-jawed fellow, in a crimson shirt and high boots, and the other two, ragged, shabby fellows, navvies from the line. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Some large reservoirs were being made in the parish, and nearly a thousand navvies were employed on the works. The Parish Clerk The huts in which they live are little better than pigsties, and especially bad for regular navvies, who take their families about with them. Recent Developments in European Thought His faults, a certain occasional fierceness and grossness, were the faults that are counted as virtues among navvies and sailors and most primitive men. Robert Browning And when we worked near the bridges the navvies used to come in the evenings in a gang, simply in order to beat the painters— it was a form of sport to them. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories I certainly did look as rugged as a navvy. A Yankee in the Trenches "You bet—as long as you pay me," the navvy answered phlegmatically, and went back to his pipe and to Mrs. Jorrocks' bottle of Hollands. The Firm of Girdlestone Such is the navvy's life at work and at rest. Recent Developments in European Thought Every one is familiar with the story of the English navvy who pointed at Mr. Webster in the streets of Liverpool and said, "There goes a king." Daniel Webster On the eve of feast days the streets were thronged with ragged fellows whom the townspeople called "navvies," and of whom they were afraid. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories This form was his violoncello, fragile as a pretty woman, ungainly as a navvy, and precious as honour. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories The navvy started to his feet with an oath and then fell back into his chair, staring round him vacantly, at a loss as to where he might be. The Firm of Girdlestone The navvy needed canteens or Y.M.C.A. huts, but such things had not been thought of then. Recent Developments in European Thought With many an upward smile and meaning wink The navvies all are running from the cut Like lunatics, to right and left— PICKERING: Tut, tut— 'Tis only some poor sport or boisterous joke. Black Beetles in Amber The navvies usually congregated about the taverns and the market-place; they drank, ate, and used bad language, and pursued with shrill whistles every woman of light behaviour who passed by. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories But he fell to work like a navvy. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales "Come on, then!" said the navvy, buttoning up his coat and rolling a ragged cravat round his throat. The Firm of Girdlestone I'd much rather he were a navvy, a stark, swearing navvy, and we could go in for stark, swearing candour, and I needn't be a lady any more. Christine An elegant young man stood solitary inside the hoarding and stared at a razed expanse of land in whose furthest corner some navvies were digging a hole.... The Regent An American kinematograph operator, Mr. Edwards, of Mr. Hearst's papers, was desirous of taking a film of these women navvies—heavy, sad creatures they are. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War Surveyors and engineers descended upon the woods; then a cloud of navvies. The Delectable Duchy Our friends all went down to the Winchester Assizes to give evidence, and the navvy was duly convicted of the death of Rebecca Taylforth and condemned to death. The Firm of Girdlestone General labourer—navvy work—anything of that sort. Dead Men's Money When I unbolted the parlor door and found a somnolent navvy waiting to be shaved, I realized with astonishment how brief the interlude had been. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta A large number of Scotch navvies were at the inns of the town, making an obstreperous auroval in celebration of the monthly pay-day. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Ten minutes after they left the industrious bookkeeper returned with navvies and draymen, and removed the office furniture to parts unknown. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On "Think of your own skin," said the navvy. The Firm of Girdlestone My heart feels it is well, and will be well.—This morning I traversed the haunts of the 'navvies' to give tracts to as many as I could. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York He worked harder than any navvy, and never felt fatigue. Hodge and His Masters Now the iron pathways are running in every direction, making grand junctions at points which had never felt the navvy’s pick a dozen years ago. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's And in another there'll be a lot o' navvies in the gallery. Between You and Me "Does he, though?" cried the navvy, flushing even redder than nature had made him. The Firm of Girdlestone Not a possible drop of blood bluer than a navvy's could circulate in their veins, and yet their wrists were fine, their heads were small, and their general appearance was that of gentlewomen. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage The railway through it to Inverness had just been opened, and the navvies seemed still to constitute the largest portion of the population. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's A man of genius—many believed him a genius—and yet he was incapable of earning his daily bread otherwise than by doing the work of a navvy. Vain Fortune "Just enough to curl him up," the navvy answered. The Firm of Girdlestone At the head of a gang of navvies, he inspected the palaces, hospitals, barracks and religious houses, breaking up cellars and staving in drain-pipes. The Aspirations of Jean Servien English contractors sent out large bodies of navvies, and began to lay down a railway from Balaklava to the front, reinforcements poured in, and the health of the troops began to improve. Jack Archer At length it passed two English navvies, who found themselves in Paris on their way from Spain. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance That which would present no difficulty to a thousand navvies working in open country will be of course more troublesome in a comparatively confined space. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon The navvy was certainly not a pretty sight. The Firm of Girdlestone I have addressed navvies on the advantages that would accrue to them if they married wealthy ladies of rank, and not a navvy dissented! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan A large village had grown up near the mouth of the valley, wooden huts for the numerous gangs of navvies and laborers stood by the side of the railway. Jack Archer Railway trucks, and even navvies' barrows, were contracted for in order to keep the men employed. Men of Invention and Industry When Ginx, who was a stout navvy, and Mrs. Ginx, who was, you may conceive, a matronly woman, were in it, there was little vacant space about them. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire The Nihilist brought up the rear with his keen eye fixed upon the navvy, and his knife still ready for use. The Firm of Girdlestone It was like a proud and bullying manager suddenly forced to labour in a squad of navvies, and worse, for there was the gnawing physical fear of what was coming. Mr. Standfast I told them you had been here last night and had gone off on a motor bicycle this morning, and one of the chaps swore like a navvy.' The Thirty-Nine Steps There was two thousand navvies on it—all young—all strong—an' I was one of 'em. Rewards and Fairies This room contained a press, an old chest of drawers, a wooden box once used for navvy's tools, three chairs, a stool, and some cooking utensils. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire A steep embankment would instantly screen anyone who sprang out from the observation of the navvies. Tales of Terror and Mystery One kind of work's as good as another, and I'm a better clerk than a navvy. Mr. Standfast The stepfather was a drunken navvy, and used to knock the mother about, and the lad was left to the streets. In Darkest England and the Way Out It is in the fact that when a navvy wishes to praise a man, it comes readily to his tongue to say that he has behaved like a gentleman. Heretics Those eyes, ere they had grown dim, had looked out from the box-seat of mail coaches, and had seen the knots of navvies as they toiled on the brown embankments. Round the Red Lamp I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow and suddenly confronted by the work of a dozen busy navvies digging the foundations of a house. The War of the Worlds Outward bound, empty cattle boats, rough and rusty, were swaggering down to the sea, with the careless, independent thumbs-in-armholes air of so many navvies off the job. The Black Bag As he studied the scene, two seasick navvies tottered out on deck to sniff the clean air. The Cruise of the Dry Dock In the morning, leaving Bellinzona, again I went in terror of the new, evil high-road, with its skirting of huge cubical houses and its seething navvy population. Twilight in Italy Twinetoes lay in his navvy clobber on a dirty bed, drunk, dead to the world. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 From navigation, i.e. a canal for internal navigation, we have navvy. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 Cousin Egbert had removed his coat, collar, and cravat, and his sleeves were rolled to his elbows like a navvy's. Ruggles of Red Gap Hogan, Deschaillon, and two navvies caught him by the legs and arms. The Cruise of the Dry Dock These Italian navvies work all day long, their whole life is engaged in the mere brute labour. Twilight in Italy These islanders were the model 'navvies' of the age before steam: Albuquerque applied for Madeirans when he formed the barbarous project of diverting the Nile to the Red Sea. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Grimy navvies wept, roared, stamped, as they bore him. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Even the navvies had left, the embankment was finished, and they had dispersed all over the world. Selected Polish Tales Under its load of seaweed, the sea was falling rapidly, and presently other seasick navvies came on deck. The Cruise of the Dry Dock And they are the navvies of the world. Twilight in Italy He can doff them and work like a 'navvy' when he sees reason. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded The navvy turned round on his bed and said— "Good-bye, mate." Esther Waters February 23.—Some time ago a navvy working in Sussex came upon a round object like a cocoa-nut which he flung carelessly out of the way. Impressions and Comments The navvies turned back to their work, distinctly disappointed; they had expected a fight. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Suppose a very poor person, poorer even than a journalist, a navvy or unskilled labourer, tramping in search of work, often changing his lodgings, often, perhaps, failing in his rent. Tremendous Trifles A splash of mud, that would never be seen on a navvy's clothes, stains the white satin of a bride or the embroidered garment of a noble. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII The navvy was alone; the little clerk had his family round him, his wife and his two children, a baby in arms and a little boy three years old. Esther Waters A navvy saw the danger, the soldiers with drawn sabers. Jean-Christophe Journey's End As they walked, navvies came out with buckets brushes and set to work painting the maze of iron stanchions that lined the long interior of the dock. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Is his honour the Chief Magistrate, who is a Commander of a noble Order of Knighthood, to travel side by side with a drunken navvy? Three Dramas It is easier to simulate gentility among gentlemen than among navvies; and the plain man is a touchstone who draws out all the alloy in the gold. Crucial Instances The clerk's wife was chattering; the great navvy lay in the corner, still as a block of stone. Esther Waters Long and intimately as the young navvy had been acquainted with the landlady of the 'Cat and Whistle,' he had never before seen her arrayed for the outer world. The Three Clerks The navvies ate ravenously enough, but Hogan and Deschaillon were not so wolfish. The Cruise of the Dry Dock He had some hundreds of stalwart navvies employed carrying dirt in small wicker baskets to an embankment. Castilian Days Walking near Covent Garden, London, he accidentally jostled against an Irish navvy, who, being in a quarrelsome mood, seemed inclined to attack the poet. Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way At noon we passed our teamsters, and Mr. R——'s gang of navvies, rather picturesquely grouped round their camp fire, where tea was boiling and pork frying. A Trip to Manitoba Charley said nothing, but looked on his brother navvy in a manner that made any other kind of reply quite unnecessary. The Three Clerks The crew came forward behind the navvy, on the qui vive over this new undertaking. The Cruise of the Dry Dock He proved to be an Irishman, named Hamilton, from Limerick, who had come over from Ireland five years before, and worked as a bricklayer's labourer and a navvy both in England and France. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 She felt she had scored quite a victory when the navvy bought a copy. The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" To the east lay a plot of grass, divided by a deep narrow creek from half a dozen dirty tents occupied by the navvies. A Trip to Manitoba Mr. Snape, having carefully brushed his hat and taken down from its accustomed peg the old cotton umbrella, also took his departure; and the fourth navvy, who inhabited the same room, went also. The Three Clerks "Don't see none," replied the navvy who possessed the binoculars at that moment. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Sofia approached on tiptoe, though the altercation going on within had reached a stage so acute that it was doubtful whether either of the disputants would have heard had she stumped like a navvy. Red Masquerade The first time she ventured out on this service she saw a great, drunken navvy lounging against the door of a public-house. The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Their dinner call was a shrill whistle, and their bill of fare differed from the navvies' only in the addition of pies made of dried apples, and an unlimited allowance of pickles and sugar. A Trip to Manitoba Charley by this time had torn himself away from Mr. Snape and the navvies, and transferred the whole of his official zeal and energies to the Weights and Measures. The Three Clerks That day, when Madden had ordered Heck Mulcher to paint in a certain place, the navvy had grumbled out a "That's all very well for you, sir," and the rest was lost in a mutter. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Not only in farming, but in navvy work, in the rougher work of factories and mines, the same fact is evident. The Open Air The navvy may rejoice in 'Life on the Mississippi'. Mark Twain Their dinner hour, too, was a "movable feast," as in rainy weather they took it between the showers; the navvies did not mind a wetting. A Trip to Manitoba We need hardly say that Charley made a night of it in a very different manner from that to which he and his brother navvies were so well accustomed. The Three Clerks The navvies moved about half naked, and burned brown as nuts. The Cruise of the Dry Dock In doing this, spare time is occupied to the best account, and the enemy is foiled in some of his thousand-and-one ways of ensnaring the toil-worn navvy at the close of day. God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada But in the end it seems many of the navvies learnt to speak French pretty well. Lectures and Essays We had unusual opportunities of seeing the real life of a navvy while we lived in the shanty. A Trip to Manitoba And then, his frequent visits to Whitehall were spoken of even by the most thoughtless of the navvies, and the threatenings of the coming storm revealed themselves with more or less distinctness to every mind. The Three Clerks The navvies, with an English dread of legal authority, hesitated, thinking perhaps Caradoc had deserted them purposely to clear his own skirts in the mutiny. The Cruise of the Dry Dock It was Archbishop Magee who, when Bishop of Peterborough, encountered a drunken navvy one day as he was walking through the poorer quarters of that town. Here, There and Everywhere The English navvy was found to be the first workman in the world. Lectures and Essays Next to us, in reality under the same roof, was the store, containing everything a navvy could want—from hats and boots to pickles and tobacco. A Trip to Manitoba It don't do to chaff now,' said a young navvy, who was especially down in the mouth. The Three Clerks Six navvies, three to the man, jumped and grabbed the combatants. The Cruise of the Dry Dock As I passed along the Saint-Gothard highway a couple of months since, I perceived, half up the Swiss ascent, a group of navvies at work in a gorge beneath the road. Italian Hours They could not even ballast as the English navvy does, continuously working at filling for the whole day. Lectures and Essays In five minutes our feet weighed pounds, and we understood the navvies' saying that they "took up land wherever they worked." A Trip to Manitoba Now Scatterall was one of the navvies; and from him Mr. M'Ruen had not yet succeeded in extracting one farthing, though he had his name on a volume of Charley's bills. The Three Clerks One of the navvies caught the expression on Madden's face, and blurted, "If I 'ad it, I'd bring it back—'onest!" The Cruise of the Dry Dock Here, at least, was one who had no fear, and fearlessness appeals to the heart of every Briton from the peer to the navvy. In Kedar's Tents In his tours along the line he remembered even the navvies, and saluted them by their names. Lectures and Essays "Besides the navvies only go if they like it," said the parish priest. Castle Richmond He felt that he was putting himself on a par with great men, and rising above the low level of the infernal navvies. The Three Clerks He recalled the words of the navvy on the London dock, "Everything is unreasonable at sea." The Cruise of the Dry Dock He kept accounts and taught children to read, and at one time he was even employed as a navvy in making an embankment. The Fat and the Thin The Danish railways brought the British navvy again into comparison with his foreign rivals. Lectures and Essays The manners of the navvies were such that Sophia could not even regard them, nor Gerald Scales permit her to regard them, without blushing. The Old Wives' Tale Mr. Corkscrew was also a navvy, and was one of those to whom Charley had specially alluded when he spoke of the low set. The Three Clerks Most were of stolid English navvy type, dirty uncouth men whose gross irregular features told of low birth and evil life. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Further on the astonished features of navvies appeared above the mounds of gravel. The Invisible Man Some navvies utterly distanced in working power the labourers of all other countries. Lectures and Essays The Loop railway was being constructed at that period, and hundreds of navvies were at work on it between Bursley and Turnhill. The Old Wives' Tale Screwy was a name of love which among his brother navvies was given to Mr. Corkscrew. The Three Clerks The navvies accepted the new officer in stolid submission, but Hogan clapped his hands. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Suddenly an old woman, peering under the arm of the big navvy, screamed sharply. The Invisible Man They were men of all classes, humble navvies as well as trusted agents. Lectures and Essays For as to stopping you, "ten on me might," as the navvy said to the little special constable who threatened to take him into custody. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 But the spirits of youth are ever buoyant, and the spirits of no one could be endowed, with more natural buoyancy than those of the young navvy. The Three Clerks Some of them even only carried large navvies' shovels. The Fortune of the Rougons "The Invisible Man!" he cried to the navvies, with a vague indicative gesture, and by an inspiration leapt the excavation and placed a burly group between him and the chase. The Invisible Man The "navvies," though rough, seem not to have been unmanageable. Lectures and Essays Classical and mathematical scholars joined their forces with navvies to dig gold; and nearly always the scholars were found after a while cooking, shoe cleaning, and doing generally menial offices for the navvies. It Is Never Too Late to Mend And then taking his leave the infernal navvy hurried off, and reached his office in Somerset House at a quarter past eleven o'clock. The Three Clerks The navvy had not stirred, for he had seen nobody enter. The Fortune of the Rougons Special trains, the best rooms in the best hotels, anything, everything he fancied—and yet all the while he worked at his books "like a navvy." The Life of Sir Richard Burton The navvy, the scaffolder, the costermonger, the cab-tout—innumerable would be the varieties of texture, of fold, of knot, observed in the ranks of unskilled labour. The Nether World Crates lined up on the quayside at Jaffa, chap ticking them off in a book, navvies handling them barefoot in soiled dungarees. Ulysses Whether he was a hypocrite—as all the navvies averred—or a man sincere as far as one so weak could accomplish sincerity, it is hardly necessary for us to inquire. The Three Clerks Great gangs of navvies appeared, wending their way across the silent plain. Shearing in the Riverina His appearance was decidedly changed, for he wore a pair of dark blue linen trousers, of the type French "navvies" habitually affect, and a loosely fitting coat of rough woolen material. Monsieur Lecoq Other bodies of soldiers, half stripped and encrusted with mud, are labouring as navvies in repairing the excavations. The Dynasts A drunken navvy grips with both hands the railings of an area, lurching heavily. Ulysses And thus was this wild wolf to be led into the sheep-cote; this infernal navvy to be introduced among the angels of Surbiton Cottage. The Three Clerks If you ask me, I say I lead a dog's life—why, even a navvy works only for a fixed number of hours per diem! Australia Felix His proper trade's a navvy; and he works at it sometimes too—for exercise—and earns good money at it. Pygmalion Her grandfather, the navvy, had but recently become endowed with Pilgrim-Father Ancestry,—and her maternal uncle was a boastful pork-dealer in Cincinnati. Thelma The navvy, swaying, presses a forefinger against a wing of his nose and ejects from the farther nostril a long liquid jet of snot. Ulysses He belonged to no club, and his circle of friends, except in the houri and navvy line, was very limited. The Three Clerks Those who drew blanks nursed an unquenchable hope, and laboured all their days like navvies, for a navvy's wage. Australia Felix The nearest type which we can see now is I fancy, the English sailor, or the English navvy. Roman and the Teuton It is miner's work, navvy's work: vigorous sometimes, artistic never. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects The navvy, staggering forward, cleaves the crowd and lurches towards the tramsiding on the farther side under the railway bridge bloom appears, flushed, panting, cramming bread and chocolate into a sidepocket. Ulysses Why, don't you know the navvies are the most ignorant young men in London? The Three Clerks To the miner and navvy it was only a series of bayonet fights between German champions and English ones. Heartbreak House One saw him in town-alleys, preaching the Gospel of godliness and cleanliness, while smoking his pipe with soldiers and navvies. Roman and the Teuton After that, he had taken a food contract for a gang of railroad navvies on the transcontinental. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town They do not for a moment dream of it, plucky navvies though they be, capable of raising miniature mountains of excavated soil. More Hunting Wasps After all, the infernal navvies, bad as they doubtless were, knew something of the recognized manners of civilized life. The Three Clerks We have but to see the nest of a Cotton-bee to convince ourselves that its builder cannot at the same time be an indefatigable navvy. Bramble-Bees and Others I haven't run a gang of navvies in the Crow's Nest Pass for nothing. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land There was an engineer taking the street level with a theodolite, and a gang of navvies with shovels digging like fury as if to dig out the back foundations of the hotel. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town The Sergeant, followed by Cameron, pushed his way through and found a number of navvies frantically tearing at a pile of jagged blocks of rock under which could be seen a human body. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail The navvies of Somerset House are known all over London, and there are those who believe that their business has some connexion with the rivers or railroads of that bourne from whence no traveller returns. The Three Clerks The navvies of April have turned themselves into harvesters. Bramble-Bees and Others "Come, Jack, shall us have a drop of some'at short?" were the words coming out of the navvy's mouth; and under this was painted in huge letters, Doctor Thorne At an adjoining spot he begins flourishing the tools anew with the skill of a navvy, this venerable scholar with letters after his name. A Changed Man; and other tales To the elegant criminal, unskilled in navvy's work, this is the one moment to find the door open. The Mason-Bees |
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