单词 | section hand |
例句 | Lots of section hands went back and forth, Mexicans, some Hindus. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z One day they were telegraphers, day laborers, railroad section hands and the next they were colossal figures of American enterprise. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z I found only one man, the cook, at the Section house this time, the section hands having gone to work. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z And that, as it happened, was exactly the place from which it was revealed to the choleric near-Shuswap section hand. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z By and by the cars sped past a small stone hut and he wondered whether he was the man who had not long since stolen down at night to meet the section hand. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z When the railroads quit using wood, I worked as section hand for $1.25 a day. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z Often in the spring the whole force of section hands is required for several days to dispose of the material of one single fall. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z “You sing it like an Irish section hand.” The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Some section hands had followed Number One out of the Bend in a handcar, and had found MacAllister and his fireman about two hundred yards apart on opposite sides of the right of way. The Night Operator Maybe some section hand stuck a feather of that eagle in his hat and called it macaroni! The Young Alaskans on the Missouri The remainder of his life, with the exception of five years on a farm, has been spent as a section hand. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z I didn't enlist as a section hand, nor a railroad wrecker, and there was nothing in my enlistment papers that said anything about my being compelled to commit arson. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 He was a lame man, and had worked as section hand for the railroad for many years, until the bad accident which forced him to retire on one of the company's rarely given pensions. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories The section hands had picked them up, pumped madly back to the Bend, and made their report. The Night Operator He ran fully three miles, and then came upon a squad of section hands who had been engaged in repairing the track. Stories Of Georgia They worked the first summer as section hands. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The hut might serve as a place of refuge until some of the section hands should come that way and he leaped into the building. Messenger No. 48 As the time of factories had not yet come the laborers worked in the fields or were section hands on the railroads. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story As far as looks went there wasn't a thing the matter with it, not a thing; it would have pulled a grin of pride out of a Polack section hand—which is pulling some. The Night Operator From the demoralized section hands Captain Fuller learned of the number of men on the locomotive, and was given reason to suspect that they were Federals in disguise. Stories Of Georgia There had been many threats that the party of disorder would import section hands from the neighboring railway stations to down the legions of the righteous. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Lucky for her he had seen her or she might have been in a pretty bad plight along these lonely reaches of track before any section hands chanced to find her. Every Man for Himself The whole thing wasn't any bigger an asset than a job as a section hand on the U P. Their sales of scrawny cattle jist about paid the taxes en bought their salt en terbacker. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story There was nobody left in the cut, and both the train and the handcar on which the section hands had traveled, were out of sight. Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's The section hands had what was then called a pole car, a small affair which they pushed with poles from point to point. Stories Of Georgia In cool weather she wore a Stetson like the boys; but now she favored a great, straw sombrero such as you see section hands wear along the railroad track in Arizona. Skyrider Here we saw two Italian section hands whiling away their Sunday with fishing rods. The River and I A gang of colored section hands got on, dirty and loud. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel She had to keep her twenty span of old reliables because, what with the sailors and section hands you got nowadays to do your haying, you had to have tame mules. Ma Pettengill I was a section hand much as six months in all my life. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 I'm a railroad section hand, an' was lookin' to be made a foreman on a section near New York. The Boy With the U.S. Census As the time of factories had not yet come, the laborers worked in the fields or were section hands on the railroads. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life The signs say: "Pick men wanted, section hands wanted, farm laborers wanted." A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago He had, it is true, known some section hands down on the narrow gauge that was also Bohemians, but Bohemians of any class at all was glass blowers, and that was an end of it. Ma Pettengill While he worked with a half dozen other men as a section hand on the railroad, two men did all the talking. Poor White I should not have been on that bridge, as a section hand warned me a train was due, and the trestle is very narrow. The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale Or, camping and tramping for fun and health But she has never before been seen in America employed, for instance, as a section hand on a railway. Mobilizing Woman-Power But this one who shuffles, this giant in a tattered mackinaw who slouches along under the bulletin signs asking for section hands and laborers, there is no dream of remembered places in his eyes. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago There had been many threats that the party of disorder would import section hands from the neighboring railway stations to down our side. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography In the town where he was employed as a section hand, the cloud dream in which the world became a whirling, agitated center of disaster came to him almost every night. Poor White The section hands on the railroad remembered their former fellow workman, Mike McCoy, and wanted to be good to his widow. Poor White He lived in a house belonging to a Mrs. McCoy, the widow of a railroad section hand killed in a railroad accident, who had a daughter. Poor White In the evening, after his day of work in the field or on the railroad with the section hands, Hugh did not know what to do with himself. Poor White Later he went to work as a section hand on a railroad. Poor White The section hand's daughter was a slender woman of thirty with tired blue eyes and red hair. Poor White He cut fence posts in a forest on a large farm in Indiana, worked in the fields, and in one place was a section hand on the railroad. Poor White |
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