| 单词 | roustabout |
| 例句 | The man from the juice joint, who left the great mixing vat for no more than a few minutes, storms off to Uncle Al, convinced that roustabouts are responsible. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z We have an enormous crowd that night—a “straw house,” so named because after all the regular seats sell out, roustabouts spread straw on the hippodrome track for the overflow crowd to sit on. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The first person to approach the red wagon is a roustabout, and when he leaves empty-handed the line buzzes with angry curses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A crowd is gathering, mostly made up of displaced Benzini Brothers roustabouts. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The next one—another roustabout—also leaves in a fit of pique. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Nobody with a smidgen of training, not even the worst roustabout, would look right in a grown person’s face. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He climbed up the metal steps to the top of the substructure, an elevated base upon which sat the draw works and the doghouse for the roustabouts and the tool pushers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The roustabouts, having spent much of the day sleeping in whatever corner they could find, are dismantling the great canvas city as efficiently as they put it up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Matter of fact, I became what you would call a regular roustabout, a “ladies’ man.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The lemonade thief has hit the roustabouts where it hurts, and they’re prepared to take action. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He was a tobacco- chewing roustabout, a superb gambler and pool player and what was then called a ladies’ man. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But since it was past midnight, the kitchen was closed, so the trio repaired instead to an all-night local eatery on Sixth Avenue, the Waldorf Cafeteria—a Greenwich Village hangout for artists, writers, and roustabouts. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z An ancient roustabout is also looking through the stands but facing the other direction. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z While the acrobats are receiving their applause, roustabouts run into the center ring, rolling two balls ahead of them: one small, the other large, and both decorated with red stars and blue stripes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z August disappears in a cloud of dust behind her, and panicked roustabouts dive out of her way. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The roustabouts, once roused, run around like headless chickens. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Upon entering that house, I discovered a pathetic scene that moved my heart: The room now was filled with merrymakers and roustabouts upon the trestle-benches, calling toasts to one another. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z At nine on the nose, the man in the wagon beckons forth the first person, a roustabout. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Chaos—candy butchers vaulting over counters, workmen staggering out from under tent flaps, roustabouts racing headlong across the lot. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Because someone’ll hear you been fraternizing with roustabouts and chuck you—or more likely these guys—off this thing,” he says. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She casts a dark look across the room where the Duchess’s girls are calling out to the table of roustabouts. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When they light up, we catch a glimpse of something real, a roustabout spirit that director Hopper and his merry band lived as they acted it. Easy Rider at 50: how the rebellious road movie shook up the system 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z A teenage roustabout whose reputation for drinking and brawling plagued him well into adulthood, he was about 16 when he starred in “The Goonies,” a smash. Josh Brolin Revels in the Role of Go-To Guy 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z His character is a janitor and general roustabout, angling for a spot in the show. Review: At the Big Apple Circus, It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z “Nightmare Alley” cast Power against type as an amoral carnival roustabout who steals a mentalist’s technique. Coleen Gray, doe-eyed beauty of film noir, dies at 92 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Records weren't kept well back then for roustabouts. A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z A gruff, gabby charmer who has amassed a loyal following, Mr. Tyrell has the gnarly lived-in voice of an itinerant roustabout familiar with New Orleans blues traditions. Review: Steve Tyrell Keeps a Comfortable Pop-Swing Style in Honoring Sinatra 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z In Burton’s film, there are no dark-skinned roustabouts singing about how they’re happy to be illiterate and “slave until we’re almost dead”. Grounded? How Disney's Dumbo flop could threaten its master plan 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z In a version of “Hey, There,” from “Pajama Game,” he asserted his power as a roustabout Broadway crooner. Music Review: Harry Connick Jr. Performs on Broadway 2010-07-16T21:19:00Z Army helicopter pilot, country music composer, one-time roustabout, film actor, singer, lover of women, three times a husband and father of eight -- seems ready to meet his maker. Country singer Kristofferson looks to end of road 2012-11-21T13:27:47Z This leads him to a number of plausible suspects, from the piggish local squire to a shifty antiques dealer to a roustabout gardener. From the creator of ‘Foyle’s War,’ a delightful homage to Agatha Christie 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Billy Joe Shaver’s “If I Give My Soul” is the prayer for another chance from a roustabout musician who lost his family to wild living while “traveling with the Devil’s band.” Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z He grounded it, if you can say that, in a phantasmagoric reiteration of American folk legend: drifters, thieves, rounders, jailbirds, horndogs, vigilantes, and roustabouts. Robert Hunter Gave the Grateful Dead Its Voice 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z A lawman who knew him described him as a little roustabout. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Tom Hanks alone appears and reappears as a cackling Victorian doctor, a slovenly Scottish hotelier, a tattooed tribal elder and a roustabout Irish novelist, complete with diamond stud and silver chain. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-21T21:03:01Z “The Stowaway”’s titular character appears strictly in silhouette, straitjacketed as a “rapscallion,” “loveable scoundrel,” “rascal” and “reformed roustabout.” 'The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica' doesn't quite deliver on the glitter of its premise 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z His young mother, Beatrice, had married an engineer and roustabout named Horace Seidner who turned out not to be the family type. Jack Brogan, Quiet Force Behind Light and Space Artists, Dies at 92 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z He was a roustabout and a raconteur, quick to laugh and quick to cry – endearingly overcome by his own good fortune and never afraid to poke fun at himself. Tony Curtis: a life in clips 2010-09-30T11:57:00Z While daddy’s gone, Fran — despite the flu she’s suffering from — is reminded to buy groceries and keep house for the summer people, such roustabout work being the family’s main source of income. Book review: Kelly Link’s fantastic, fantastical ‘Get in Trouble’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z She treats Mr. Dylan as a fellow troubadour and roustabout, inventing the rules while traveling along an endless road. Review: Joan Osborne Delivers No-Nonsense Dylan 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z I spoke to prison guards who patrolled the wards of violent penitentiaries, undocumented immigrants who toiled on the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses and roustabouts who worked on offshore rigs in the fossil-fuel industry. The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z As a former construction worker, he had the foundation, with some additional training, to begin working as a roustabout, assembling and repairing equipment in the offshore oil industry two years ago. Oil boom transforms Guyana, prompting a scramble for spoils 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Duncan liked to joke that his only previous experience in the oil industry was working a few weeks in Texas rigs as a low-rung laborer known as roustabout. Charles W. Duncan Jr., energy secretary during Carter-era oil crunch, dies at 96 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Lives Lived: Charles W. Duncan Jr. got into the energy business as a Texas roustabout digging pipeline ditches and later became Jimmy Carter’s energy secretary at the height of the 1979 oil crisis. The Two Inflation Crises 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Downtown features the Oilworker Monument, a towering bronze statue of a derrick and a roustabout wielding a wrench. California Plans to Quit Oil. Resistance Is Fiercer Than You Think. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z It's not elites who become roustabouts and end up working on oil rigs like the one I look at, which is in fact the one where the Deepwater Horizon blast took place. A hard look at the "dirty work" nobody wants to celebrate this Labor Day 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z “From the roustabout, to the company man, to the engineer on these jobs, everybody puts their lives in danger,” he said. Determined volunteers still search for capsized ship missing 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z A lawyer becomes a director and a roustabout becomes a star in 1910s Hollywood. Movies on TV this week: April 19: Jaws; Seven Days in May 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Thousands of oil workers known as roustabouts covered the hills and plains with oil rigs to extract the riches, turning this desert outpost into a boomtown. In this California 'Trump country' town, folks hear the impeachment talk, but it feels a world away 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Bush was no roustabout, still less a roughneck. George HW Bush obituary 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Gorshum Inniss, a 25-year-old roustabout with an easy smile and flashing dark eyes, is working on a crane crew lifting casing pipe for new wells, doubling what he earned working on a tugboat. The $20 Billion Question for Guyana 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Derrick operators, roustabouts and rotary drill operators were all listed among the top 30. Labor Dept: Solar and wind jobs to boom over next decade 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z But the tough-guy culture still drives roustabouts, mechanics, truckers and rig hands to work long hours under grueling conditions and find ways to beat the tests. Some West Texas oil field workers acknowledge drug use 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Well-paying jobs in oil and gas — drilling wells, managing roustabouts — are fast disappearing, as production in the state declines because of a slump in energy prices. How Rollbacks at Scott Pruitt’s E.P.A. Are a Boon to Oil and Gas 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z He spent the summer of 1958 working as a roustabout in the Oklahoma oil fields. Raising the steaks: Does anyone in D.C. serve authentic chicken-fried steak? 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z At a recent daily meeting of the crew of the Noble Bob Douglas to review environmental and safety precautions, Mr. Inniss, the roustabout, was given a chance to make his own safety presentation. The $20 Billion Question for Guyana 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z In a place where no one blinks if you call yourself a fishermen, drill-rig roustabout, tugboat captain or gold miner, an increasing number of Alaskans are thinking of themselves as people who grow food. Growing farmers 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z But many rig hands, roustabouts, pipe fitters and even some engineers are finding a surprising alternative in the utility-scale solar farms rising from the desert near the border with New Mexico. As Oil Jobs Dry Up, Workers Turn to Solar Sector 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The youngster worked as a roustabout, or an unskilled laborer, and a bullock-driver. Australian mega-ranch sale excludes foreigners 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z While the state does not tabulate the number of oil-related job cuts, anecdotes abound of laid-off roustabouts opting to leave the Peace Garden State once they get a pink slip. North Dakota's colleges pitch education to laid-off roustabouts 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Bridgeport-based Basin Energy says in a news release that Starett’s is a specialty roustabout services firm focusing on well site and midstream natural gas infrastructure in the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions. Basin Energy acquires Starett’s Well Service 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z “Once a friend and I got to Des Moines, Iowa, and we joined the Ringling Brothers circus as roustabouts just to travel with it to St. Paul.” After 6-year effort, Army veteran gets marked grave 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Instead of roustabouts, the state's oil industry wants pump technicians, gas-processing plant operators and truck drivers to help sustain existing production of 1.2 million barrels of oil per day - not to necessarily grow production. North Dakota's job landscape shifting (for now) away from Big Oil 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The signs of the bust are in the three-tone song of dead phone numbers for roustabout services. In West Texas oil boomtowns, 'the end is near' 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z For generations the remote terrain of Scandinavian and German stock, Watford City now attracts roughnecks and roustabouts, geologists and engineers. As North Dakota Oil Town Booms, a Priest Steadies the Newcomers 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Brown also interviewed Stephen Stone, a roustabout on the rig, who is still waiting for his day in court to recover damages from the accident. `The Great Invisible' Captures BP Spill Aftermath, Without Wahlberg 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “Two is that back in the tent days, a lot of the meals they would serve to the roustabouts after loading would be meat pies.” A circus travels on its stomach 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z It recently took four of his officers to restrain a meth-high roustabout who went berserk and began smashing up oil machinery. Life in a US boomtown 2014-03-12T00:52:03Z The tone of this form, however, feels far from the roustabout activism of Abbey, or even the puckishness of Dillard. Environment: New words on the wild 2013-06-12T17:50:33.220Z Time for Airborne Theater I WAS at the airport in Singapore some years ago chatting with an oil company roustabout who was waiting to board Singapore Airlines for its 19-hour nonstop flight to Newark. On the Road: Long-Haul Flights Offer Luxury Entertainment Systems 2012-09-03T21:25:17Z As a young man, he had worked as a roustabout on a Prudhoe Bay oil rig. The Energy Rush: Shell Arctic Ocean Drilling Stands to Open New Oil Frontier 2012-05-23T23:27:17Z And this dandyism—the dandyism of the roustabout—I find in Whitman's poetry from beginning to end. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z There are, however, two habits which are constant to all the species through each stage of transformation from roustabout to captain. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z A dozen husky roustabouts, urged on by an impatient Mate, scrambled to catch the painter and give us a hand-up. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Why, that name sounds like the names of the roustabouts we read of in the papers who attack their poor wives with cotton hooks and throw burning lamps at them. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z It was a low-roofed, shambling building, planned for the delectation of the barge-man and the roustabout and now throbbing with their daily—and nightly—pleasures. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z I was housemaid and roustabout from sunrise to weary sunset. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z That drunken roustabout hasn't one chance in a thousand to live, anyway, and the country would be better off without his brand. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z A white roustabout said something evil to her out of the corner of his mouth as she brushed past him on her way to join David. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Otherwise, I judged myself slated to enact the role of roustabout at the pleasure of the rude gentleman in command. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z The least desirable jobs along with roustabout for 2011 are iron worker, lumberjack, roofer and taxi driver, it said. Software engineers have nation's best job, study says 2011-01-05T18:05:35Z Bertram’s servant and fellow roustabout, Parolles, said to love words “no more than a fish loves water,” is played with dandified comic flair by Clark Carmichael. | New Jersey: Chicanery Abounds in a New ?All?s Well? 2010-09-25T00:31:00Z Down in the bunk room, Stephen Stone, a roustabout, was jolted awake by the explosion. Plugging Oil Leak Won't Stop Political Fallout 2010-05-29T00:00:00Z Of course Steve might be one of the roughneck white roustabouts. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z A half dozen other men, roustabouts I judged from their general unkemptness, were gathered amidships by the rail. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z “I am sure our roustabouts and floor hands are worried,” he said. Spill?s Economic Ripples Seen Beyond Oil Industry 2010-06-04T23:53:00Z So a young man from here leaves home and becomes a roustabout, an entry level job on a drilling rig, and his career is set. For Workers and Families, Oil Rigs Mix Risk With Opportunity 2010-04-28T19:29:00Z It was a “cursed well,” Stephen Stone, the roustabout, told his wife over the phone. Plugging Oil Leak Won't Stop Political Fallout 2010-05-29T00:00:00Z The carnival roustabouts—big, rough-looking, powerful negroes in undershirts and soiled, nondescript trousers—eyed the trio curiously as they passed from one tent to another, Eddie gesticulating like a Cook’s Tour conductor. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z “Peel off those roustabout garments,” he said to me. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Instead of the oddness of a Creole song, or a negro "roustabout," it was the oddness of the ethics and religious superstitions of the genius of a remarkable people. Lafcadio Hearn The roustabout wrapped both arms around the legs of the Martian and yanked hard. The Next Time We Die "Here, you black-whiskered old roustabout, where 're you takin' them boys?" he demanded. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign Couldn't you find somebody on your own level to fight, without startin' a fuss with a passel o' low-down, rust-eaten roustabouts? Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign Apparently, all the negro cooks, teamsters, officers' servants, and roustabouts from the adjoining camps39 had been gathered there, with Groundhog, Pilgarlic, and similar specimens of the white teamsters among them and leading them. Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures When she was gone, "She's as rude as a roustabout," he said to his wife. John March, Southerner "Out here, you only forget once," the roustabout said, releasing her. The Next Time We Die Unless one scrutinized closely such unimportant details as features, ways of speech or manners, one could not place his man’s former status, whether as lawyer, physician or roustabout. Gold In an instant the cry of fire went up, and soldiers and negro roustabouts piled over each other in their scramble for safety. The Boys of '98 These boats put off simultaneously from either side, and contained police agents, bargemen, roustabouts, watchmen, watermen, and bums. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life Following the clue obtained from the woman who had worked in the elder Weir’s household, he visited the old Mexican named as having been used as roustabout by Vorse in early days. In the Shadow of the Hills The roustabout, no stranger to this kind of fighting, butted him in the open mouth with the top of his head, then struck again, savagely, at the stomach. The Next Time We Die A petty officer and a crew of roustabouts made her fast. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Bring that case right over here,” he added, turning to the four roustabouts who were carrying the blue case into the tent. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective Steel-worker, mechanic, roustabout, he had worked in most of the populous cities of Earth and had managed to get into serious trouble wherever he went. Vulcan's Workshop If this former roustabout of the saloon knew anything! In the Shadow of the Hills The roustabout shook his fist at the native crouched under the car. The Next Time We Die And all these people that we are going to be passengers with for the next four or five days watching us while we did a roustabout’s work? The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas Boys,” he said to the four roustabouts, two of whom were those Mr. Gubb had seen in the property tent, “throw this feller out of the tent.” Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective Gabe swallowed the abuse with a patient smile, but the two roustabouts muttered to themselves and eyed their employer with malevolence. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories He saw more than one killing in those days when he was roustabout for me. In the Shadow of the Hills Sandy, the roustabout, had been requisitioned to toss up empty bottles, and those who failed cursed him for a poor thrower. A Man to His Mate Everybody paused to listen, even the tired and tugging roustabouts smiling at the unwonted music. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas Two of the roughest-looking roustabouts, after glancing here and there, glided into the property tent and concealed themselves behind a pile of blue cases, hampers, and canvas bags. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective The saddling bell rang, and the jockeys trooped into the paddock, followed by the roustabouts with the tackle. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories “Yes; he was just an ordinary roustabout chap,” grunted Hepton, disgustedly. The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise He had four hours off, and he meant to make an opportunity of talking to the roustabout. A Man to His Mate Philip barely glanced away from the lusty roustabouts working the donkey engines. A Man of Two Countries His eyes were fastened on the countenances of the two roustabouts. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective Its clothes were those of a steamboat roustabout. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton “This for the feet, or the head, of the first roustabout that shows himself!” The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise Beg pardon, Mister Rainey, sir," said the roustabout, "I was through with the dishes. A Man to His Mate He had no vague boyish design to serve a 'prenticeship as stake driver or roustabout in the hope some day of graduating into a rider or a tumbler, a ringmaster or a clown. Sundry Accounts As the yawl touched the water, a score of roustabouts started to leap into it. Shawn of Skarrow Two or three roustabouts were lounging upon some rosin-barrels near by, under the spell of the round autumnal moon. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The steamer, grumbling with every chug of the wheel, was brought around, and the roustabouts crowded along the rail, ready to make her fast. Mr. Opp Some roustabouts who were forced to jump overboard to recover freight lost their lives. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist He had been a roustabout on cattle boats. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France Socrates was really the first peripatetic philosopher, but he was a roustabout. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 One of the roustabouts dropped quickly to the deck and held up his hand for silence. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes He was a roustabout on de ribber, an’ him an’ yer paw fell out, an’ one night when you was a baby he follow yer paw up here, an’ me an’ him had hit out.” Mr. Opp These things have influenced the Negroes to abhor roustabout work. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Once I got a job with a roustabout gang ballasting a ship, but the wages were only two shillings a day; besides, the job did not last. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Jim Hill, aged eighteen, strong, healthy, farmer boy, lumberman, clerk, shipped as roustabout on a schooner bound for Chicago. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Then the Captain rushed in, and the mate followed with a gang of roustabouts, who soon had quiet restored. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Jimmy refrained from making faces, or sticking out his tongue at the grinning roustabouts. The Mississippi Saucer The negro roustabouts cast off the bow and stern hawsers from the wharf posts, and scrambled over the gunwale as the Robert Burns began to back out into the stream. Gold Seekers of '49 He was enjoying a roustabout's day of rest. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles I saw a small boy, with an old, wrinkled, grinning woman at his heels, steer a barrel of flour around a corner and into a narrow alley with the speed and skill of a roustabout. The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson They came down on deck, walked past, and inquired of a roustabout who stood by me if he had seen a well-dressed man on deck. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Straight down from the sky in gusts, from all directions, banging against the boat like a drunken roustabout, slamming doors, tearing away mooring planks. The Mississippi Saucer Negro roustabouts were hard at work hustling freight and baggage aboard. Gold Seekers of '49 Steve, head between shoulders, made for the breastwork and sank into one of these openings, his neighbour upon one hand an Irish roustabout, on the other a Creole from a sugar plantation. The Long Roll I got me a job and worked as a roustabout on a boat where I learned to gamble wid dice. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives From management to roustabout there are common ties of interest. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story Any Government clerk or roustabout, not to speak of functionaries in higher duties, was looked up to in a way unfamiliar in America, for under that continuous régime his position remained fixed for life. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life We had all stopped short, and the roustabout who was towing the lifter came hurrying up. Four-Day Planet Day labor offered only now and then, and in my increasing physical unfitness I could not hold my own against the trained muscles of seasoned roustabouts, porters and freight-handlers. Branded But the hasty plunge into the underdepth of roustabout life was like the brine bath of the blacksmith to heated steel; it served to temper him afresh. The Price The general public never contacts the real circus people, just the ticket takers, ushers, and roustabouts. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story The loud commands and fierce oaths of the mate made him feel very grateful that he was not a roustabout. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World The roustabout who had been following us with the lifter had stopped to chat with a couple of his fellows. Four-Day Planet We could use an extra man as roustabout, if business gets good. The She Boss A Western Story Toiling roustabouts, trailing in and out like an endless procession of human ants, were hurrying the last of the cargo aboard. The Price Aside from the management the personnel of a circus naturally divides itself into three groups: the ring performers, the animal trainers, and the roustabouts. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story No. Burris is always yelling about not getting enough overtime work, but you know how it is: he's just a roustabout, a common laborer. Day of the Moron It was supplied by a negro roustabout on one of the large transports. Our Navy in the War I'm a good roustabout, willin' and cheerful, and always a kind, happy little playmate. The She Boss A Western Story The man who raises his child to be a roustabout is wrong in the eyes of his neighbor who is raising his child to be a scientist, and vice versa. The Fourth R Victor, the carpenter, ropemaker, and general roustabout had performed his part. Voyage of the Liberdade The succulent catfish is easily obtainable for food, and the wages of the roustabout—or "rouster," as he is called for short—are good. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' The roustabouts, the low drifters of the spaceways … men who were hard and strong from repeated knocks, who were looking for a way to work or fight their way up. Warlord of Kor I possessed such a growth of beard and was altogether so disreputable looking as to be mistaken for a roustabout by the boat's officers, who set me at work to earn my passage. The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War "Tumble down here, you two lazy young roustabouts!" sounded Owen's voice a few minutes later. The Submarine Boys on Duty Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat I saw the levees piled with merchandise, and a score or more of packets rushing fresh cargoes ashore—mates bawling commands down the gangplanks where the roustabouts came and went at a trot. The River and I Not that there was any lack of roustabouts in town, but that, money being plentiful, they would not work. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Mr Adelson, who was raised in San Francisco and who had worked as a roustabout, a telegraph operator and a merchant seaman taught the Academy, and his wild stories were all Oly could talk about. A Place so Foreign He had been drinking, and was in a reckless mood; he believed me a common river roustabout, with few scruples of conscience, and possibly had even picked me out as an assistant in the affair. The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War I'd had a pretty rough training—living the life of a roustabout for so many years, and I guess I kind of ran amuck when I struck home. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police But the forlorn roustabout could not be coherent. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent He is a Negro roustabout and was sitting in the bar room at Poydras and Franklin Streets when a mob passed along and espied him. Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics It takes a Whitney to invent the cotton gin, but the dullest negro roustabout can operate it. Queed They were thugs and roustabouts and ill-omened fellows who could stab in the back; they were craven in the face of an open peril. Truxton King A Story of Graustark Except for a sleepy negro roustabout attendant and two young fellows at a table well back from the bar, the cowboys had the big hall all to themselves. A Man Four-Square Bart was sure that his mysterious friend could be no other than the roustabout. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Most other roustabouts had each a name of his own; so had the Carmi Chums for that matter, but the men themselves were never mentioned individually—always collectively. Romance of California Life The crew were deck hands, roustabouts, or firemen, by turns, and when we took wood most of the male deck passengers were required to assist. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life One old roustabout told me he thought she had gone to sea. Shandygaff The life of the roustabout varied some with the habits of the roustabout and the disposition of the mate. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives The roustabout held with his other hand a canvas bag on his head so that it concealed nearly his entire face. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Next to neighborly wonder as to the existence of the friendship between the Chums, roustabouts with whom the couple sailed concerned themselves most with the cause of the bond between them. Romance of California Life He saw Nan and The Laird enter into earnest conversation, and his curiosity mastering him, he ventured to inquire of a roustabout who was loading baggage on a truck who the young lady might be. Kindred of the Dust There were Spanish freebooters, Irish roustabouts, Scotch free lances, and runaway slaves—a nondescript lot, and all ready for any undertaking that promised excitement, revenge, or booty. The Reign of Andrew Jackson Uncle George said the roustabouts sang gay songs while loading boats with heavy freight and provisions but on account of his crippled feet he could not be a roustabout. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives "Don't try to," advised the roustabout in a dreary way. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent They was the Chums, to be sure, but now they're only dead roustabouts. Romance of California Life No one could tell by speech, manners, or dress whether a man's former status was lawyer, physician, or roustabout. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado Men of all classes; top-hatted merchants rubbed elbows with red-shirted miners, Irish laborers smoking clay pipes, Mexican vaqueros, roustabouts from the docks, gamblers, bartenders, lawyers, doctors, politicians. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts Two negro roustabouts at New Orleans were continually bragging about their ability as long distance swimmers and a steamboat man got up a match. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Bart set the lantern on the bench and approached the roustabout's hide-out. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent The first to become widely known was "The Bully," a levee song which had been long used by roustabouts along the Mississippi. The Book of American Negro Poetry They used to kick the roustabouts about and run them around but they never laid the weight of their hands on him. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 On the 30th of September he started a two-horse wagon, loaded with most of our outfit, on ahead, in charge of a roustabout. Out of Doors—California and Oregon And the dangling roustabouts hanging like drops of water from it—dropping sometimes twenty feet to the land, and not infrequently into the river itself. Balcony Stories At first Bart fancied it might be one of the burglars, but peering closer he recognized the friendly roustabout. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent "Not the clodhoppers and roustabouts that come to see us," retorted Mabel. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Like a provident negro, having stowed away all his trappings, he appeared as a roustabout on a Western steamer. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Just as our meal was ready, our roustabout came into camp, riding one of the horses barebacked, with only a halter and leading the other two. Out of Doors—California and Oregon And the roustabout throwing the rope from the perilous end of the dangling gang-plank! Balcony Stories He threw out his arms wildly, groping to locate the speaker, whom he knew to be the roustabout. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Susan, trembling a little, so tense were her nerves, waited until the last struggling roustabouts were staggering on the boat, until the deep whistle sounded, warning of approaching departure. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise In mid-stream the paddle of a river steamer was churning the water into foam, and up-stream, near the dock, negro roustabouts could be heard singing. Calvary Alley By this time the roustabout was thawed out by our fire, and we had supper. Out of Doors—California and Oregon It was too early yet for any but roustabouts, marketers, and church-goers; so early that even the river was still partly mist-covered; only in places could the swift, dark current be seen rolling swiftly along. Balcony Stories He had come in contact with the roustabout now, who with all his timidity was proving himself a hero in the present instance. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent "Every man is entitled to what he can get, from the roustabout on the wharf to our friend Porter, and no more." The Web of Life With the roustabout crew that had been shipped in New York from a West Street boarding-master it took some time to get the anchor broken out—the men going at their work sulkily. The Boy Aviators in Africa The morning after the yellow-jacket incident, Chauvin and the roustabout, the latter taking my gun, left me in bed and went out after deer. Out of Doors—California and Oregon The roustabout dived, as the roustabouts always do, after the drowning, even at the risk of their good-for-nothing lives. Balcony Stories "Overcome with the smoke—or tumbled and was stunned," declared the roustabout. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Old scores are forgotten, several of the enemy are dead, others have passed on into circulation, and the artistic roustabout is given a desk or a case. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists It had an impassiveness which made an interminable distance between him and those who had till now looked upon him as a poor Chinky, doing a roustabout's work on a ranch, the handy-man, the Jack-of-all-trades. Wild Youth, Complete It won't be necessary for you to mingle with pickpockets and roustabouts and common ring performers. The Rose in the Ring I could see them all at that moment, the roustabouts, the laborers and muckers, the unskilled toilers of the world. The Long Chance The roustabout with a nervous gasp vanished in the darkness. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent "Say, I wish you would have some of those roustabouts inside roll out a dry-goods box for me to stand on." The Desired Woman Gentleman and roustabout, one and all, were linked together by a common anxiety. West Wind Drift On such occasions the luckless roustabout gave up his precarious bedroom to the "ladies" and sat all night in dubious solitude atop of his lodging house. The Rose in the Ring He was a source of mystery to the men of his own rank in the line-the ploughboys, the teamsters, the roustabouts, and the ne'erdowells who had gone into the army from choice or discretion. Jane Cable "The roustabout, the poor fellow that I've got the ten dollars for, the good fellow, if I don't mistake, who saved the books and the contents of the safe!" exclaimed Bart. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent To my shamed surprise, this roustabout wit drew a nervous, silvery giggle from her; and that completed the work with Mr. Percy, whose face grew scarlet with anger. The Guest of Quesnay The Dowager was skipper of the Thompson craft, with "My daughter"—that's what her ma always called her—as first mate, and Milo as general roustabout and purser. Cape Cod Stories I was a sailor before the mast, a longshoreman, a roustabout; I worked in canneries, and factories, and laundries; I mowed lawns, and cleaned carpets, and washed windows. Revolution, and Other Essays "I can hear roustabouts chanting," said the cook, as he bent his ear; "and I bet you that's a steamboat getting wood aboard." The House Boat Boys Bart stood for a moment or two queerly regarding the roustabout. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent I need an extra man in the main storehouse to oversee the roustabouts there. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story At first sight you would take "Mac" for a mere roustabout, like most who go a'soldiering. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Stevedores, draymen, street porters, roustabouts, hod carriers and ditch diggers still remember to this day what money they earned by the day during this mad summer. Yama: the pit They revived the man, then bound up his injury hastily, and as the steamer cast off they led him to the bank and passed his grip-sacks to a roustabout. The Barrier The matter was that the roustabout was crying softly like a baby. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent The roustabout apparently belonged to the conch tribe of which Milo had spoken. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story More likely to be a stowaway on a merchantman and then roustabout on a cattle boat, or some such thing. Cap'n Eri The cook and the maid, and the boy and the roustabout and Jean's coachman are left—just enough to make it lonesome, because they are around yet never visible. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910) He came from the banks of the Mississippi—from the flatboatmen, pilots, roustabouts, farmers and village folk of a rude, primitive people—as Lincoln did. 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors Bart had purchased the articles the roustabout had required, and that evening Baker came out from his hiding-place marvelously unlike the great-bearded, shock-headed individual Bart had previously known. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent There was a clatter on the veranda, and Roke's enormous bulk shouldered its way through what was left of the group of sailors, his roustabout costume at ugly variance with their neat attire. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story For a little while the quaint and original riverman held on in the new age, only to disappear entirely when the colored roustabout became the deckhand of post-bellum days. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway The funnels of it were throwin' out smoke, and a gang of roustabouts were carryin' aboard a pile of boxes that was stacked up on the wharf. Cabbages and Kings But the purpose wavered as he saw the roustabouts come tumbling out, all frowsy and unwashed, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes, cross and savage. Back Home He poured coffee in the cook tent for the thirsty roustabouts. The Circus Boys in Dixie Land : or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South "Put him off!" howled one of the roustabouts who had been sleeping on the flat car under a cage. The Circus Boys Across the Continent : or, Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark Canvasmen, roustabouts, performers and everybody within reach of his voice swarmed out into the open, armed with clubs, stones and anything they could lay their hands upon. The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life "She was third assistant roustabout and table girl at the Old Home House," said Wingate triumphantly. The Depot Master This roustabout crew had all the unloading to do, and the reason I liked it was it gave us some chance to steal. The Outlet Then Kearny leaped to his feet and wrung my hand with the strength of a roustabout. Roads of Destiny The trainman roared, which once more aroused the ire of the roustabouts who were trying to sleep. The Circus Boys Across the Continent : or, Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark "Then, I think I'll let you juggle the big coffeepot in the cook tent for the edification of the hungry roustabouts," grinned Mr. Sparling. The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life The roustabouts were just about to make the boat fast, when a party of armed horsemen dashed out of the woods and galloped toward the landing. Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister Before we had been there long, one day there was a call among the prisoners for volunteers to form a roustabout crew. The Outlet And, last of all, are the unskilled laborers, the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the ditch-diggers, the men of pick and shovel, the helpers, lumpers, roustabouts. War of the Classes He had had a long wooden bath-tub built, and I watched it with a lazy interest, and observed his glee as he found a longshoreman or roustabout who could caulk it. Vanished Arizona Already the steamer was backing away from the shore, dragging her gang-plank through the water; the negro roustabouts were too much terrified to pull it in. Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister |
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