| 单词 | stevedore |
| 例句 | On her hands and knees, Sefia peered around the corner, her quick eyes picking out stevedores milling about on the decks and gangways. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Though not as tall or physically commanding as Bull’s, Captain Brannon’s body was stacked together with the knotted muscles of a stevedore, and an implied menace shadowed his whole appearance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She told them about the waterfront cookhouse where she’d worked chopping onions and frying potatoes for hakujin stevedores who looked right through her as if she weren’t even there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Most Scholars who aren’t enslaved work menial jobs—as farmhands or cleaners or stevedores—backbreaking labor for which they’re paid next to nothing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The hard work of hoisting heavy casks into the hold was accompanied by the stevedores’ usual grunts and muttered oaths. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In turn, stevedores and dockhands and clerks furnished him with information and he scooped up the rascals on the threshold of deliverance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Stonetown Harbor had always been a busy port: ships steaming in and weighing anchor at all hours, countless stevedores and sailors as busy as ants, and the docks piled high with cargo. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Most were attached to labor battalions, as cooks and stevedores, laborers and gravediggers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Groups of young men—mostly immigrants, a few blacks—roamed the docks, looking for jobs as cooks and sailors on ships, or work as stevedores loading and unloading goods on the docks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A voracious reader with little interest in formal schooling, Mr. Mankell dropped out of school at 16 to become a stevedore on a coal and iron ship. Henning Mankell, literary master of ‘Nordic noir,’ dies at 67 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The very first word in the show, sung by a chorus of stevedores, isn't dared used here and has been changed to "colored folk." 'Show Boat' keeps rollin' along fine style in San Francisco 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The stakes were raised by Carry A. Nation, described as “six feet tall, with the biceps of a stevedore, the face of a prison warden and the persistence of a toothache.” Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z While some industry remains, cargo ships have largely given way to cruise liners, and it’s hard to imagine his streetwise stevedore compadres from “On the Waterfront” in the aisles at Ikea and Fairway. Weekend Miser: John Lennon’s Sideline, Up for View 2012-10-04T22:30:06Z The kaftan, constant cigarettes, tinted glasses and perfect blonde hair were much in evidence; so too the deliciously wicked wit and stevedore language. Bette Midler heading back to Broadway after 30 years 2013-01-08T14:35:56Z It would have been daring to draw out more the oppression and ambiguous feelings of the black stevedores and showgoers. Music Review: Can?t Help Seeking That Middle Ground in ?Show Boat? 2012-02-29T23:43:57Z Simón finds work as a stevedore, hauling grain from ship to warehouse. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z Simón gets a job as a stevedore, loading groaning bags of grain. Books of The Times: J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Childhood of Jesus’ Dissects a World 2013-08-28T21:20:05Z One of the earliest pieces in the Jewish Museum’s exhibition, “South African Photographs: David Goldblatt,” is a 1948 shot of a black stevedore in Durban doing a springy little look-at-me dance. Art Review: David Goldblatt?s South Africa Photos at Jewish Museum 2010-07-01T21:52:00Z Because these are European stevedores: They knew cheese! Gold rush opportunists, hippie goat ladies: California entrepreneurs dream of cheese 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Never mind that when she sang and danced, she sounded like a bullfrog on steroids and moved like a drunken stevedore. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z It didn’t matter that I ached like a stevedore at the end of a double shift. Perspective | By day, I’ve been trying to cull my book collection. But at night, eBay beckons. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Where those dollars go: The cruise economy web extends further than you might think — restaurateurs, stevedores, shuttle drivers, private security firms, farmers who sell vast quantities of produce to provision ships, etc. Cruise ships have returned to Seattle — is that a good thing? Here’s a primer on the issues facing the cruise industry 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Men and goods crowded the big open space on the Bosphorus; products from between carts and holds, unloaded from the backs of stevedores and the humps of camels. Altai by Wu Ming – review 2013-06-01T08:02:25Z We are urged not simply to worry about the fate of the hoppers, police, schoolkids and stevedores but also of their environments and professions – and we do. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z The other stevedores spend their evenings at something called the Institute – another one of the socialist-style arrangements designed to keep people usefully busy. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z The following day, Simon goes to start work as a stevedore at the grain wharf. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – digested read 2013-03-10T20:00:01Z The Waterfront Museum The museum is aboard a 103-year-old barge and houses the captain’s original living quarters and a number of tools once used by longshoremen and stevedores to load and unload boats. Manhattan transfers: New York’s boroughs by ferry 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Simón argues with everybody, not only with Davíd and Elena, but the other stevedores as well. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z The next is 7ft tall, bald, with a sloping forehead, and wearing a stevedore cap and jackboots, like a cartoon of evil. Where are the world's scariest bouncers? 2010-03-29T15:31:00Z The old man, now known as Simón, is quickly given a job at the docks, where "all his fellow stevedores strike him as good men: hard-working, friendly, helpful". The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z Control — a good thing, to the stevedores and engineers among us — is anathema to people like Grade, who crave the rush of freshly broken ground, the thrill of serendipity. Art of decay: John Grade's fascinating sculptures crave disintegration 2011-05-29T01:58:15Z Now bourgeois central, the West Side used to be the busiest port in the Americas, a clangorous maelstrom of swinging cables and breaking booms, bulging warehouses and stevedores’ bars. A New $260 Million Park Floats on the Hudson. It’s a Charmer. 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z With the other stevedores, none of whom is more than a cipher, Simón thinks aloud about what their labor means. Books of The Times: J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Childhood of Jesus’ Dissects a World 2013-08-28T21:20:05Z After spotting the breach on Friday, DP World, one of a handful of stevedore industry players in Australia, disconnected internet, significantly impacting freight movements. Australia ports operator back online after cyber incident 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z After spotting the breach, DP World, one of a handful of stevedore industry players in Australia, disconnected internet, significantly impacting freight movements, Goldie said. Australia ports operator could be online within days after cyber incident 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z The company, part of Dubai's state-owned DP World, is one of a handful of stevedore industry players in the country. Australia says ports operator cyber incident 'serious' 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z “Shape-up” is the term for preferential hiring of stevedores and other dockworkers; “shakedown” means exactly what it says, and it took — and takes — the form of kickbacks in “dues” to a “union” ruled by thugs. How to watch every best picture winner from 1950 through 1959 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “My new boyfriend was raised by a pack of wild stevedores.” Advice | Carolyn Hax: Expectant parent doesn’t love in-laws’ nagging 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Striking workers include crane drivers, machine operators and stevedores, who load and unload ships. Port of Felixstowe strike: 'This pay rise makes a big difference' 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z In time, entrepreneurs set up bigger tents, brought in pianos for merry-making and “good, clean, cheap fun, even on Saturday nights, when the stevedores, oil drillers, and sailors wandered in from Santa Monica …” Actors, bandits, priests and one English bulldog: The names behind L.A. beaches 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Magellan, however, refused to pay the terminal usage fee, arguing it was neither a stevedore nor engaged in stevedoring. Judge rules against Delaware port operator in tariff dispute 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The son of a stevedore, Moreno scavenged for leftover food from restaurants as a child and collected scrap bottles and newspapers for money, according to the mayor’s website. Manila mayor, ex-scavenger and actor, to seek presidency 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Mandas told me that, at a port in China, he was confronted by one of the stevedores. Can Massive Cargo Ships Use Wind to Go Green? 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z It has finally returned to port where it is being unloaded by the ship’s crew, rather than stevedores on land. Coronavirus live news: US confirms 1m cases in a week; Boris Johnson self-isolating 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z She’s worked alongside boats as a stevedore for nearly 18 years, moving cargo on and off container ships with a forklift. For the Sydney Hobart, an Indigenous Crew Puts to Sea 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z “On the first issue, the company proved that it does not owe the terminal usage fees because it was neither a stevedore nor engaged in stevedoring,” Laster wrote. Judge rules against Delaware port operator in tariff dispute 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z At Vulture’s Peak, a shrine where the Buddha taught his Heart Sutra—“Form is only emptiness, emptiness only form”—a crowd of touts, stevedores, rickshaw drivers, and cold-drink venders ringed Anand. Walking the Path of the Buddha in a Neglected Corner of India 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Stevedores board ships to operate the cranes mounted on deck, and the rotor sails seemed to be partially blocking this stevedore’s line of sight. Can Massive Cargo Ships Use Wind to Go Green? 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z However, whenever she is quoted, she is swearing like a stevedore. Review | The almost-charmed life of JFK Jr. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Dwayne Boudreaux, an International Longshoremen’s Association official in Louisiana, said, though, that his stevedores are handling about 10 percent less steel from Japan because of the new tariffs. US ports fear tariffs could reduce ship traffic and jobs 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Shriver, then 47, her voice a gravelly mix of upper-crust Hyannis Port and dockside stevedore, boldly stated that 1 million of the world’s intellectually challenged would someday compete in Special Olympics. Opinion | One of history’s most transformative human rights movements turns 50 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Controversy, however, surrounds continued poor remuneration and conditions for women’s sport, after the revelation that Blues captain Maddie Studdon had to resign from her job as a stevedore to represent her state. 'Welcome to 2018': NRL praised for response to State of Origin kiss 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Nostalgia for the days when the waterfront of Hoboken, N.J., teemed with stevedores and tugboat crews is apparently a thing of the past. Bolstered by Survey, Hoboken Again Says No to Ferry Yard 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Although swearing in a male-dominated profession can be a short cut to acceptance, women are also more likely to be shunned or seen as untrustworthy—even by women—when they sound like stevedores. The power of profane language 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z But stevedores argued that the law would halt most exports from far eastern ports and also hit people in the Kuzbass mining region. Eastern Russian port of Nakhodka chokes on coal 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z In another wing, incredibly, is the Allegheny Locomotive, an old stevedore that was brought from Pennsylvania to Detroit, and the museum “expanded” to allow its entry. TRAVEL: Detroit history, automobile museums, baseball and music abide in Michigan city 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Her son Mack Reed wrote of his mother on Facebook: “She loved like a child, worked like a stevedore, cursed like a sailor and sampled the world with Twainian zest.” This week’s passages 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z During the crisis, more than half of the 700 stevedores seeking assignments went home with no job, subsisting on their guaranteed minimum pay. Spain’s Long Economic Nightmare Is Finally Over 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Dozens of striking stevedores gathered outside gates at Lisbon’s port Tuesday and shouted at what they said were strike-breakers helping to load the containers on trucks. Police help Lisbon port move cargo amid dock workers’ strike 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z But stevedores argued that the law would halt most exports from far eastern ports and also hit people in the Kuzbass mining region. Eastern Russian port of Nakhodka chokes on coal 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z In an episode of “The Wire”, a hit American TV drama, a stevedore at the port of Baltimore declares a jazzy promotional video about Rotterdam to be a “horror movie”. The shipping news 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Liverpool docks were once filled with the sound of horses' hooves, the commotion of emigrants leaving for a new life and the din of stevedores loading heavy goods on to vessels bound for the Atlantic. The fall and rise of Liverpool docks - BBC News 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The sense of revival is palpable along the Barcelona waterfront, where stevedores work the arms of giant cranes hoisting containers full of factory wares onto giant vessels bound for points across Europe and Asia. Spain’s Long Economic Nightmare Is Finally Over 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z But when Heights Chateau opened in 1986, its stretch of Atlantic Avenue was known for dive bars serving stevedores, not well-lighted storefronts offering wine tastings. At Heights Chateau, a Welcoming Home for Wine Lovers 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Long before investors lost faith in the Chinese stock market, something seemed amiss at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, where the stevedores and longshoremen process about 40% of U.S. trade with China. Warning Signs in U.S. Presaged China’s Stock-Market Plunge 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z To get on board, some stowaways pose as stevedores or deck cleaners. Stowaways and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Sometimes they hobbled on crutches or were carried on litters by stevedores. At 92, she still has painting in her blood 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z The first stop for Sanchez was the railway yards in Tokyo, where, after Omori, he worked as a stevedore, hauling coal and lumber from barges on the canal. In Japan, former American prisoners of war close a dark chapter Luck called the port authority, which alerted an immigration agent, who arrived with a burly stevedore. Port ambassadors celebrate milestone in Cleveland 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z The young defensive line is like a band of angry stevedores, and they feinted and slammed and steamrollered Bears quarterback Jay Cutler more than once Monday night. Ghosts of Mondays Past: Jets Come Up Small in Big Game 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z His mother was a laundress and maid, and his father was a grocery clerk and stevedore. Terence A. Todman, U.S. ambassador to six nations, dies at 88 Officer Lavin was speaking to a stevedore at the time, and stumbled back, exclaiming to the man, “Mart, I’m a dead man.” A Copper, a Dust-Up and Death 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z As the youngest and lowest-ranking crewman, I drew consecutive round-the-clock watches supervising the stevedores. (Back) Gates to Asia 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Freighters used to carry loose cargo in sacks and crates of various sizes, crammed into holds and piled on deck by stevedores. Risk Ahoy: Maersk, Daewoo Build the World's Biggest Boat 2013-09-05T09:54:47Z The center of Sittwe, a former British colonial outpost, is now empty of the Muslims who once worked in large numbers as stevedores and at other manual jobs. Muslims Face Expulsion From Western Myanmar 2012-11-30T02:54:44Z Baltimore port jobs pay solid middle-class wages to 14,630 workers — stevedores, truckers, railroaders, steamship agents, freight forwarders, customhouse brokers, warehousemen, tugboat operators and Chesapeake Bay pilots. Aging Baltimore tunnel a threat to shipping economy for the city and Maryland 2012-03-28T22:52:00Z Mr. Bui had worked as a farmer and stevedore, loading sand and rock at the local port. Quang Yen Journal: For Some in Vietnam, Prosperity Is a South Korean Son-in-Law 2012-03-13T03:20:06Z The French were also interested in a company of American negroes specially recruited for stevedore service. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z When a poet makes bank clerks and stevedores and wood-choppers to loom before my imagination in heroic proportions, I will receive them as I do the heroes of old. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z A ship came into Sydney Harbour and stevedores were enlisted to unload it. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z But truckers, stevedores and longshoremen who refused to cross picket lines lost pay, raising the question of whom the action was helping, or hurting. Occupy movement develops new strategies for 2012 2012-01-09T05:21:48Z Coal miners, farmers, stevedores, vagrants, desperadoes, drowsy clerks and fumbling factory hands—the dull faces of the immemorial crowd sweating for its living, grunting under its burdens—his phrases hymned their loneliness and their defeats. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Two Savannah stevedores caught sight of a black soldier in the French uniform and rushed up to exchange greetings. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z They looked with contempt on a blow, the retaliation of stevedores, and we regarded with disgust a concealed weapon. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z When they retired they were panting like hunted rabbits and sweating like stevedores. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z You little know my men; they are not picked Englishmen like yours, they are principally stevedores and fishermen. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z I got the 'longshoremen and stevedores to scatter throughout Ireland information about this country and about the way to get here. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z A glance through the now open scuttle showed him that the ship was berthed alongside a wharf, and that the stevedores were already getting busy. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The barmaid was not their sister, nor the stevedore their brother. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z In hospitals, the stevedores as a class have marked arteriosclerosis, and, almost without exception, they are comparatively young men. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z A stevedore or a carter has as much incentive to enthusiasm for his work. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z My first step was to engage the services of as many Irish 'longshoremen and stevedores as possible. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z The girls and their guide passed a gang of stevedores rushing the last of the freight aboard the boat, their trucks making a prodigious rumbling. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z Four or five days elapsed before our stevedores returned, and the work of shipping cargo re-commenced. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z For what does our government care if our native authors, even of the highest ability, earn less than common stevedores? The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Later all the stevedores sent were regularly enlisted members of the army. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z I have patients with this complaint who are letter carriers, expressmen, even stevedores, and the like. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z At 9.30 the head stevedore reports the cargo all trimmed down. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z Finally, the old man turned to one of the Greeks of the stevedore gang, and ordered him to act as slingsman. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Her flag was Panamanian, but her crew was Filipino, young male sailors loaded with money and free time while they awaited the stevedores. Returning to Life in Kamaishi 2011-04-21T21:00:19Z This was the point at which General Pershing began to lament to Washington over his scarcity of stevedores, and labor units, and soon thereafter was the point at which he got them. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z There is no use for a man five feet in height, weighing one hundred pounds, to try to be a stevedore. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z When we went alongside to our usual berth in the afternoon we were informed cheerfully by the stevedore, as we were used to being informed, that we "would be away by Sunday." From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z Henceforth no one noticed me, so I roamed about the deck, prying into holes and corners, until the stevedores knocked off for dinner. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z William stayed with them until he was twenty-four, then worked twelve years in Galveston, as a stevedore. 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 Between the port and the hospital, and beyond the port along the coast, were the rest-camps, the receiving-camps, and a huge separate camp for the negro stevedores. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z Whether as officers or stevedores our men have borne their share of the brunt of battle. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z The 4,000 or so stevedores are paid in cash and employed along clan lines. Business in Somalia: Commerce amid chaos 2011-02-10T10:53:44Z The stevedores, or stowers of the timber, arrived on board shortly after we anchored; like the rest of the population, they were a mixed crowd of Latins and Greeks, but all speaking Spanish. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z But Benton was not St. Louis, and the men who loaded ship were of a different calibre from the stevedores at the River City. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z As late as mid-August General Pershing was still doing the military equivalent of tearing his hair for more labor units and stevedores. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z Mr. Doeringsfeld's stevedores mainly handle exports—Idaho wheat, dried peas and lentils heading west to Asia. Idaho Shortcut Stalls Global Trek 2010-10-22T03:16:00Z While serving in the Army, working as a stevedore in Greenland, Mr. Carpentier avoided what might have been a deadly fall from a ladder when his hand involuntarily and mysteriously clenched on its own. After a Vision, Anointing Himself a Saint, if Not Exactly Assuming the Lifestyle 2010-10-14T04:42:00Z "Knock-off" time came, and with it the exodus of all the motley crowd of riggers, painters, and stevedores who had been busy about the ship all day. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z This decaying Stonehenge stands as a memorial to the lost New York of stevedores and railyards. Rusting in a Crane Yard, Steel Art With a Pedigree 2010-09-24T15:23:00Z Meanwhile, the engineers and stevedores shared the work of constructing "the largest aviation-field in the world" in central France. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z The stevedore and his gang came on board to discharge the cargo. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document At Brest there were three days of sanitary processes and equipment inspections, with a night of stevedore work at the docks sandwiched in. Battery E in France 149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division All the stowage was done by the crew under the direction of Jemmy the Scrubber, who proved himself as capable a stevedore as he was a seaman. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Cargo was still swinging over the main hold, down whose big, dark square a tall, strong, red-bearded chief mate was roaring to the stevedore's men engulfed in the bowels of the ship. International Short Stories English The stevedores, for their part, were as amazed as the French, though on a different score. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z The stevedore rolled his eyes and offered Pitchblend a suggestive whistle. World Beyond Pluto He summoned all the spacewise epithets any stevedore or crewman had ever used, added a few he imagined no one had thought of before, and held them in abeyance until Altman would answer. Spillthrough A good deal of drinking went on about that galley, and often at knock-off time the stevedores had much ado to get ashore, so drunk were they. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Ships from every nation, whose masts tower aloft in a dense forest for five miles, with thirty thousand sailors and stevedores, busily loading and unloading, stand in your view. Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847 A small number of negroes employed as civilian stevedores came with the First Division, but they could not begin to fill the needs. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z "Come off it, Pitchblend," one of the stevedores said with a grin. World Beyond Pluto The stevedore’s gang and their own overseers arrived aboard. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday During his absence the stevedores quitted work and left us for the Christmas holidays. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z 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" A few families have come to the harbor, and the stevedores are organized now to get them aboard ship. The Flaming Mountain A stowaway had been found in the hold of the vessel, and the sailors and stevedores had brought the fellow out more dead than alive. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon When the stevedore’s men arrived the following day, they were almost to a man rigged out in the cleanest of suits, or costumes rather. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Cargo is stowed and completed; the stevedores are unrigging their gear when we reach the ship. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The bay was filled with shipping and the shore lined with warehouses where the stevedores were already busily engaged in lading or discharging cargoes. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise There is not a labourer's pay in her; the stevedores are gone ashore. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Some of these negroes were stevedores from the lower Mississippi levees. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" After much criticized anxiety about winches and blocks and guys, our stevedore gangs began their work at good speed. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Before the pilot is off the ship with his docket signed, the blocks of our derricks are rattling and the stevedores are setting up their gear for an immediate start. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Scores of Italian stevedores were carrying baskets of coal on their shoulders from barges into the bunkers of the Moltke. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise A one-eyed stevedore said she drops in there maybe once or twice a year, but he didn't know from where. Wings of the Wind On his side of the street, the sidewalk was thronged with stevedores, stokers, sailors, what not. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The stevedores quickly made fast their tackle: four large drain-pipe tubes were let down into the chosen hold, and the suckers commenced. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Every one of the rabble rout of stokers, stewards, and stevedores lost his wits and set up a frenzied yell. Carmen Ariza A hundred and twenty stevedores lined up on the wharf for work and breakfast. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work Some become caleseros, some labor upon the water-front of the town as stevedores, porters, and the like, but the majority are confirmed idlers. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Soon there were crowds of thousands, and as stevedores there began bawling out names, gang after gang of men stepped forward, until at last the chosen throngs went marching in past the timekeepers. The Harbor "Imagine a stevedore as a moving picture star!" Alex the Great Then he joined a stevedore's colla in town; but he never worked unloading the steamers more than two days a week, and that much quite against his will. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore It was something to see the lank, brawny little army of stevedores take their first breakfast in line, alongside of the ship. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work A snuff-taker is rarely to be met with, and few, if any, chew the weed, if we except the stevedores and foreign sailors to be seen about the shore and shipping. Due South or Cuba Past and Present At one end of the wharf Wilson sprang through the small group of stevedores who, their work done, were watching the receding steamer. The Web of the Golden Spider You see side by side professors, laborers, lawyers, doctors, stevedores, carters, all classes, rich and poor, a great democratic army, drilling to fight so that this may be a decent world to live in. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went Most of the stevedores were hatless, and Chris snickered at the sight of the short braid of hair at the napes of their necks. Mr. Wicker's Window One hundred and twenty-five stevedores were employed and paid in food issued as rations. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work It made a big bright flame, quite unusual in that resort of silent lights, and one of the stevedores commented on it. Hurricane Island A few empty bales stood here and there as though thrown down at hazard; there were coils of rope and great blocks of timber used by the stevedores who loaded the barges. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar The second and third mates came on board early; the crew were not to join until the evening before sailing, as the work of loading was done by stevedores. A Chapter of Adventures So close to noon, the sailors and stevedores had vanished to eat their meal, and passers-by were few. Mr. Wicker's Window The admiralty stevedores had stowed the waggons in the hold and a mess they had made of it. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders It was the stranger I had observed, the Sea Queen, the subject of the stevedores' pleasantries. Hurricane Island Exchange: the place where merchants meet and carry on their business. stevedores: those engaged in the work of loading and unloading ships. The History of London Such, also, to take another example was the situation recognized in the course of the attempt during the war to standardize the wages of the stevedores and longshoremen employed in the South Atlantic ports. The Settlement of Wage Disputes Merchants in coats of fine but sober cloth were talking with the captain and mate, while they kept an eye on the cargo being laboriously unloaded by stevedores. Mr. Wicker's Window There were reports that the stevedores were supplying certain patrons in England with tobacco of superior quality obtained by pilfering. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" They paused by me for one to relight his pipe, and in the flash of the match I gathered from the dresses that they were stevedores, newly come, no doubt, from unloading some vessel. Hurricane Island All the stevedore crew were members of the Wildcat's own race. Lady Luck The roar of the docks surged through dull and confused, a medley of clanking hatch-covers, complaining tackle, deep-throated protests of donkey-engines, outlandish commands from stevedores, and the yelps of high-strung little tugs bossing the lighters. Isle o' Dreams They had picked out ten stevedores, to carry sacks of corn, and hard-tack boxes, and barrels of pork, and that was the action I was to engage in as my first duty as corporal. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 Then I spotted the weapon it held, one you don't often see, a stevedore's hook. The Night of the Long Knives Astern the jettymen and stevedores are wrangling over their latest job; trains are shunting, cranes working, trucks discharging their cargoes amid clouds of dust. From a Cornish Window A New Edition The stevedores' strike, gaining strength each day, now included a floating committee whose duty it was to discourage the enlistment of new labour. Lady Luck And a stevedore made something like a million dollars out of a cargo of canned salmon by hearing some cockney give his theory about how the blockade could be run to Port Arthur. Isle o' Dreams His changed appearance induced a boss stevedore to hire him tallying cargo, which was more lucrative than fishing, and furnished, in time, a hat, pair of shoes, and an overcoat. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility But applicants for charity are not usually skilled workmen, and most of the work of the friendly visitor will be with those whose occupations are still unorganized, with porters, day-laborers, stevedores, etc. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers Crews always were their own stevedores, and it was a poor crew that could not load to perfection in a short five minutes, once the cargo had been settled. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways He pictured a life of ease in which each charter member of the colony who believed in heaven would be reluctant to trade heaven for a stevedore's career. Lady Luck Men were rushing freight aboard on rattling trucks—parallel lines of stevedores were working. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Both slaves and freedmen were used as stevedores and deckhands for the Company's vessels. The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress The savage vulgarity of stevedores, strike-breakers, ships’ waiters, circus crews, and soldiers had a charm to me of which I had never before dreamed. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle The lining was ripped open, in the presence of the little crowd of labourers, carmen, stevedores, and so forth, who, seeing something unusual going on, had collected. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols They had a strike among the stevedores the day we sailed, and then, too, we've got a scrub lot of stokers below, and the Captain's got to handle 'em just so. A List To Starboard 1909 "May be just as well to lock it while we're at dock and stevedores are aboard," agreed the mate. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 At this point Mrs. Purchase's practised ear told her that the stevedores were ceasing work, and she bustled up the ladder to summon her crew to swab decks. Shining Ferry That story about how the stevedores on the docks in Liverpool turned and looked at Daniel Webster and said, "There goes the King of America," has been related of James Oliver. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen The stevedore was a much larger man, but George got the best of it. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi And Mrs. Harling welcomed his coming too for even the men's talk of cargoes, commerce, shipping, and stevedores had its lure for her. Carl and the Cotton Gin All that has been done is the pumping of her out daily by the stevedore’s men when their stowing work is finished.” Saved by the Lifeboat He came straight from the jetties—that is to say, as straight as a stevedore can be expected to come at noon on Saturday, after receiving his week's pay. Shining Ferry The cook was making coffee in the galley for the stevedores, who had just finished loading the ship. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen During the fight the stevedore's friends stood over George with drawn pistols, threatening to kill him should he do any butting. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Everybody felt that it served Mr. Penrose right for telling about the stevedore when he was seized with a violent fit of coughing immediately afterward. The Dude Wrangler "Surely you think that one about the stevedore's spaniel, towards the end, is terrific?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 The stevedores who do this—all negroes—were resting while they waited for the next load. The Gypsies In the following December he returned to Manila disguised as a seaman, and stole ashore in the crowd of stevedore labourers. The Philippine Islands One night at New Orleans a stevedore tackled him. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi And Ogden Minot he pays me to be stevedore aboard his house yonder. Fair Harbor There is no stevedore and no spaniel in the whole book, as I had carefully ascertained. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 These were composed of the stevedores and workingmen generally, and were officered by such young men as the governor and council deemed best fitted. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Slowly, Musa's ship drew in toward the wharf, where a shouting gang of porters and stevedores awaited her arrival. The Players He was a boss drayman, and a particular friend of a stevedore I had whipped a year previously, and he had it in for me. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi For five days we lay anchored outside, while stevedores loaded supplies from the "Bertha" on barges towed ashore by the side-wheeler "Sadie." A Woman who went to Alaska None of us will ever forget their kindness, from the Governor Sir Terence O'Brien, and the Prime Minister, Sir William Whiteway, to the humblest stevedore on the wharves. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell He strips at one hundred and forty and can stand punishment like a stevedore. Shorty McCabe A gang of stevedores quickly rigged a gangway amidships, and porters commenced streaming aboard to carry the cargo ashore. The Players But our stevedore didn't tell all there was of the Orion and the Sirius. Sonnie-Boy's People The steamer had tied up for wood, and now the brawny stevedores with blackened hands and arms were pitching it to the deck. A Woman who went to Alaska Even the negro stevedores and laborers bewailed our misfortunes, for they knew that the glory of Nassau had departed forever. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner Disappointed, though not disheartened, he turned to the work of a stevedore, which he did for four months. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens A stevedore and a lot of dock porters took up the two canoes, and ran with them for the slip. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) So there's the Orion and Sirius thing, only, in telling it at the Sailor's Haven the other night, our old stevedore didn't say anything of Rose's part in it. Sonnie-Boy's People The river banks were lined with canoes; many natives stood looking at us from the shore, and while stevedores handled the wood, many passengers visited the town. A Woman who went to Alaska He fled from slavery at twenty-one, went North, and worked as a stevedore in New York and New Bedford. Pushing to the Front "It's up to you now, Matie," the stevedore had said to the impatient first officer. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story A steamer was coming down, men on the paddle-box shouted hoarse warnings, the stevedore and his porters were bawling from the quay. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Twice to Europe and return, once to Panama and return, once to Jamaica in the West Indies and—— "—return?" finishes our stevedore. Sonnie-Boy's People A 'hoosier,' by the way, is a cotton stevedore. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties Jacquemont and Nichols had already arrived; Lucas went to them and began talking about stevedores and lifters to get off the cargoes from the ships. The Cosmic Computer Signs that both the Government and the stevedore had predicted correctly began to show as soon as the vessel cleared the Hook. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story But in a stroke or two the canoes were away out in the middle of the Scheldt, and all steamers, and stevedores, and other long-shore vanities were left behind. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) The latter unit saw nearly half its combat-trained men detailed to work as stevedores. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 He fled from slavery at twenty-one, went North and worked as a stevedore in New York and New Bedford. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune A dish, in this benighted republic, for stevedores and yodlers, a coarse fee for violoncellists, barbers and reporters for the Staats-Zeitung—but the delight, at the Pschorrbräu, of diplomats, the literati and doctors of philosophy. Europe After 8:15 These rotten stevedores who come floating in bother the girls and bully the kids. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story I was a doctor by profession, carpenter by trade, stevedore by occupation; then came harder times—booze—more booze—despair, illness, and I found myself discharged from the hospital, down and out—a hobo! The Statesmen Snowbound She shoved back her sleeve, showing an arm as hard and brawny as that of a stevedore. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) Half a dozen R.A.S.C. clerks and a small party of the Egyptian Labour Corps, assisted by the "Camels," toiled night and day at the docks: we were dock-labourers, stevedores, and transport all in one. With Our Army in Palestine The cook undertook to feed them, and Frascuelo, the wounded stevedore who had been discovered in a state of collapse, soon revived, and was practically able to look after himself. The Captain of the Kansas "That's nice; hand me all the cheerful news you have when you know they hung out storm-warnings at noon," the officer had growled as the stevedore went ashore. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story He hustled his stevedores forward in front of the miners and shook his fist in their faces as he stormed up and down. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North They took the best of it, and loaded it aboard her longboat, making the Taboga negroes act as stevedores. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. The Negroes are very ebony, and are employed as stevedores. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America The stevedore found in his midst elegantly groomed, but speechless Negroes whom, his friends whispered to him, belonged to the United States Intelligence Department. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The daughter is quite as old looking as her mother; the son, a rough stevedore. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 In 1874 his parents moved to Wilmington; there he worked in saw mills, lumber yards, with the cotton compresses and as a stevedore. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro "They're going to the Moon—and leave us here to do stevedore stuff?" Space Tug Not a stevedore, not a fisherman, not a brown fruit-vender did I see. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Long will stevedore tradition recite the story of how these black "big gun men" came by. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights There's no glory in being a stevedore on the docks at Hongkong, a stoker on a tramp steamer between Singapore and the Andaman Islands. Parrot & Co. When the unions were merged into a national body Hughes was the unanimous choice of the husky stevedores for leader. The War After the War You stevedores are always complaining about not getting up front, and you tell me what you'd do to the Germans if you once got up front. Soldier Silhouettes on our Front We went to the stevedores on the East Side, but they were all "full up." From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine The "Leviathan," formerly the German steamship "Vaterland," was unloaded and coaled, in competition with other white and black stevedore regiments, by Company A, 301st Stevedores, young American Negroes, in fifty-six hours, a world record. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Returning to Bunter's personal appearance, it was nothing but ignorant prejudice on the part of the foreman stevedore to say, as he did in my hearing: "I bet he's a furriner of some sort." Tales Of Hearsay "Then get busy with the stevedore stuff," says I. And say, if they'd been coached by a stage manager they couldn't have done better. Wilt Thou Torchy Diego said they were stevedores and other laborers who had just finished their day's work. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 It is not every stevedore upon the docks, nor every stoker upon the steamers, nor every brakeman upon the railroads, who comprehends what commerce really means. Craftsmanship in Teaching The black stevedore represented a section of the United States. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights They were not watchmen by profession, but were recruited from the ranks of porters, cartmen, stevedores, and labourers. Fifth Avenue Among the latter were dock builders, structural steel workers, bricklayers, teamsters, hostlers, wagoners, axemen, cooks, bakers, musicians, saddlers, crane operators, welders, rigging and cordage workers, stevedores and longshoremen. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico "He is a stevedore with thirty years of the quayside and at the port of Barcelona, where there are German ships with their officers and crews on board." The Summons In the first place, the hold was stored by expert stevedores, the cotton-bales being so closely packed that a mouse could hardly find room to hide itself among them. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha The stevedore beheld arrive Negro signal men, monitors of their troops and of a million whites behind them, death watch to the German enemy, destined to be sentinels and patrolmen of No Man's Land. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights He drew on his pipe and pretended to be stolidly interested in the sweating stevedores, the hoist-booms and the brown coffee-bags. The Voice in the Fog By this time the Finnish sailors were hauling in the slack hawsers, and the bearded stevedores on the floating quay tugged at the gangway. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 He shook the stevedore's hand and stood for a moment talking and joking with him upon other subjects. The Summons For twenty years he had fought nothing bigger than a drunken stevedore. A Splendid Hazard And the stevedore wondered if General Pershing would expect these Negro men to report to him information with precision and correctitude. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The Negro stevedores of the southern states of the American Union have been conscripted and shipped in great numbers to ports in France for unloading the incoming American steamers. Best Short Stories He heard the sailors sing—the oaths of the stevedores—the bustle of the carts, and the hum and scuffle of the passers-by. Trumps He had a tale of woe: trouble with the dockmaster, with the stevedores, with the cargo, with many things. London River Masts rise above the houses, ship-chandlers’ shops send forth the agreeable scent of tar and cordage, sailors and stevedores lounge against posts as only those that follow the sea can do. A Wanderer in Holland It was the Negro band, fresh from America, which gave the stevedore his greatest delight. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Every stevedore thereupon "steps lively," and apparently his heavy labor becomes to him a light and joyous task. Best Short Stories They toil rather as ordinary day laborers, porters, stevedores, teamsters, and domestics. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Tie a square knot, a weaver's knot, a slip knot, a flemish coop, a bowline, a half, timber clove, boom hitches, stevedore and wall end knots, blackwall and catspaw turn and hitch hook hitches. Camping For Boys The stevedores were vociferously busy, working against time. The Man in the Twilight Regiments of Negro stevedores, earlier in the year, had been drafted and sent overseas. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The stevedore was reluctant to tell his girl that he was doing manual labor and that his only accoutrement was the tinware from which he ate his war bread, "slum" and coffee. Best Short Stories The pilot forgot to turn his wheel and the stevedores to put out the gang plank when she stood looking at them. The Redemption of David Corson About the forward gangway a band of overworked stevedores were stowing in the last of the cargo, aided by a donkey engine, which every now and then broke out into a spasm of sputtering coughs. Vandover and the Brute That is not all: Lascars, stevedores, supercargoes, the hong merchants, agents, are all busy breaking bulk. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 It was a great experience for stevedore and infantryman. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Every moment of the day there comes in over the waves a flotilla of joy and rest and health, and our piazza is the wharf where the stevedores unburden their cargo. Around The Tea-Table Wages were very low, skilled workmen being paid less than ordinary stevedores in America. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life They are like stevedores, stowing the cargo for portability. Shandygaff A stevedore yelled at him to move out of the way and aroused him into action, but in that interval an idea which seemed to offer a possible means of escape had been evolved. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 And the stevedore's heart leaped to his throat as he saw the black officers of the 92nd Division maneuver and march away the men under their command. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Shutting the door on his failure, he hurried off with his dog to lose himself among the stevedores and dock labourers on West Street. Youth and the Bright Medusa My costume was a cross between a shooting outfit and the everyday dress of a stevedore, while my hair appeared as if recently dressed with a currant bush. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Dressed in an old pair of pants and a disreputable brown woolen sweater, which he has worn in private since the day he landed in Boston, he works like a stevedore. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians It appeared that a strike of stevedores was the cause of this outward sign of inactivity. Broken to the Plow The black stevedore wondered why America had brought him so far under white officers to behold such a sight. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Even a lacing he had received in San Francisco at the hands of a negro stevedore struck him as being humorous. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico When Lincoln saw Whitman strolling majestically past, he took him for a stevedore or possibly the foreman of a construction gang. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great And, look, the underwriters' man, Timely, when the stevedore's done, Puts on his specs to pry and scan, And sets her down—A, No. 1. John Marr and Other Poems For the first and last time in the history of the world the profession of stevedore became a distinguished one. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado Spend a week in New York City looking over subway workers, structural iron workers, guards, brakemen, motormen, carpenters, bricklayers, truckmen, stevedores, and boatmen. Analyzing Character Doctor, teamster, lawyer, stevedore and banker, they were actuated by a common spirit, working through the manual of arms together, conscious of no caste. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts He is painter, carpenter, stevedore, crew-driver, all in one day; and on the next he is doctor, navigator, clerk, tailor, and engineer. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle The stevedores who load the ships are very active men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 In America he would have slouched at the heels of a stevedore—or any sort of a man who shuffles in his walk and smokes a short black pipe. Abroad with the Jimmies Do you have to be your own stevedore? The Precipice In general Vesey sought to bring into the plan those Negroes, such as stevedores and mechanics, who worked away from home and who had some free time. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia On Monday the "plain sailor" bade the mayor, who had once been a plain stevedore, remove the city's women and children within forty-eight hours. Kincaid's Battery Men came running with redoubled agility; the stevedores were abandoning their loads in order to join the pursuit; people were leaping from the steamers in order to unite in the human hunt. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Before the ship left dock, Bowers and Wyatt were at work again in the shed with a party of stevedores, sorting and relisting the shore party stores. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Bob confessed that he had never seen it, though he had worked in the stevedore's gang; but was confident he had heard Friend Abraham White and Captain Crutchely talking of its dimensions and uses. The Crater Hardly less heroic was the service of the stevedore regiments, or the thousands of men in the army who did not go to France but who did their duty as they were commanded at home. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia You know when these Southern armies went along they carried colored stevedores to do the work for them. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 Between the two long walls of brick appeared in the background the wharf with its mountains of merchandise, its squadrons of black stevedores, wagons and carts. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Officers and men of the ship, with a party of stevedores, were busy storing the holds. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I God's will be done! we are all sinners, and so are some of the stevedores, who've left this derrick standing as if the ship needed it for a jury-mast. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" Adam Miller had inherited his father's thrift, as well as his trade, which was that of a stevedore, or contractor for the loading and unloading of vessels at the port of Wellington. The Marrow of Tradition One famous fellow of this governing class is known by his deeds and words to every lumberer and stevedore and timber-tower about Montreal and Quebec. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Ferragut, always running, remained behind the negro sharpshooters, the stevedores, the harbor guard, the seamen that were hastening from all sides crowding in the alleyways between the boxes and bundles…. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel It was the captain's delicate and arduous duty to impose his tight German habits of work and ship-shapeness on camel drivers, stevedores, and officials used to the looser, more leisurely methods of the East. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Then it suddenly occurred to Babcock that, so far as he could remember, he had never seen Mr. Thomas Grogan, his stevedore. Tom Grogan City of Chester, speaks of a young stowaway found by the stevedores in an insensible condition after a voyage of eleven days. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Actually, he played the part of stevedore as well for ten days on the relief ship. Stories from Everybody's Magazine They were the soldiers and civilian stevedores, alarmed by the aspect of this man who was running like a lunatic. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel If ever you go on the levee you'll know that sound, the rhythmic song of the stevedores heaving cotton-bales, and the steady thump, thump, of the machine compressing them within the hold of the ship. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories He's a stevedore, and does the work to the fort. Tom Grogan Jobs such as stevedores, coachmen, barbers, and servants, which had traditionally been left to blacks, were now being invaded by the Irish. The Black Experience in America It took him all his time to watch incessantly the loading of the ship by a rascally Chinese stevedore. The Shadow Line; a confession The necessities of the city dominated by them had made them pick up all the professions, becoming artisans, fishermen, boatmen, porters and stevedores of the harbor. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel He had seen something of the lading of the Northumberland, and heard more from a stevedore. The Blue Lagoon: a romance He had supposed that his stevedore had a small outfit and needed all the work she could get. Tom Grogan One third of the American stevedore force in Europe was Negro. The Black Experience in America Sometimes a mail steamer would come in, and Captain Nichols, having scraped acquaintance with the timekeeper, would succeed in getting the pair of them a job as stevedores. Moon and Sixpence A few—the lucky or the talented, but mostly those with both luck and talent—found other musical work well below stevedore's wages. Violists Surprised, I inquired how he knew me, whereupon he asked reproachfully: "Don't you remember you sent me to jail in Mayaguez for shampooing a saucy stevedore's head with a brick?" Santo Domingo A Country with a Future He had been waiting for some such opportunity to discover more about his stevedore. Tom Grogan Next day the stevedores took the ship in to the stream, and the crew came on board. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast The diagonally wedg'd-in boats, the stevedores, the piles of cotton and other merchandise, the carts, mules, negroes, etc., afforded never-ending studies and sights to me. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy One day I watched with no little interest a pitched battle between a wooden-legged sailor and a French stevedore. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale For two or three days he roved about among the people of the water-side—boatmen, pilots, shipping agents, store-keepers, stevedores, crimps, or any others likely to know anything to help him. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War It would have relieved his temper to unload a portion of it upon the offending stevedore. Tom Grogan One famous fellow of this governing class is known by his deeds and words to every lumberer and stevedore and timber- tower about Montreal and Quebec. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present Along South street and by Whitehall, he watch'd with curious eyes the movements of the shipping, and the loading and unloading of cargoes; and listen'd to the merry heave-yo of the sailors and stevedores. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy He first mistook me for a stevedore, then for the manager, and next for the Hong-Kong-Shanghai Bank. The Devil's Admiral A gang of riggers, stevedores, or lightermen work the vessel into the stream. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 I had no doubt that Gussie must have reached for the Bassett and clasped her to him like a stevedore handling a sack of coals. Right Ho, Jeeves The crew had all turned up, apparently, and a swarm of stevedores were hustling every sort of provisions, supplies, stock, spars, lines and canvas down into the hold. The Mystery The stevedores have knocked off for a rest spell and a smoke and the lighters are emptied," he announced, "so I might as well show you boys round a bit. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic A pert, petulant young clerk, continually fooling with the mate, swearing at the stevedores and laboring men, who regard him not. Memories of Hawthorne The stevedores then loaded them on the wagons which were to haul them to the different camps. History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition Hush!" she said to me, "Maurice is as drunk as a stevedore and a marquis. The Queen Pedauque He uttered a shrill falsetto shriek that brought to a standstill every stevedore on the job; and sprang forward to seize his mate by, the shoulder. The Mystery Besides the provisions, which the stevedores, having completed their "spell," were now tumbling into the hold with renewed ardor, the deck was piled high with a strange miscellany of articles. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic Such enquiries as I attempt are pretty obviously a bore to them, pass outside their range as completely as Utopian speculation on earth outranges a stevedore or a member of Parliament or a working plumber. A Modern Utopia The other battalion was detailed after the surrender to do stevedore work at the commissary depot. History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition The dusky forms of the stevedores are seen in an old pontoon- shaped boat on their way to Portsmouth, but their outlines, and the melody of their rude song, are soon lost in the distance. Success with Small Fruits He took up the direction of the stevedores. The Mystery It had begun with a few deaths along the river front in the sailors' quarters, and among the stevedores and porters of the grain-warehouses, southwest of the Aventine Hill in the thirteenth ward. The Unwilling Vestal The Chinese maintain such a clatter as to drown the hoarse cries of the stevedores, the complaint of the creaking tackle, and the rumble of the winches. The Silver Horde The man is a stevedore, I guess, and him and his wife used to get drunk regular and carry on up here every night or so. Gallegher and Other Stories They were stevedores and doing full stevedores work. Following the Equator, Part 7 From this Captain Selover went on into a good old-fashioned deep-sea "cussing out," to the great joy of the stevedores. The Mystery Early on Monday morning the crew and a large force of stevedores commenced to discharge the vessel. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley They saw Balt point the strangers carelessly to the office, whence he had seen Boyd disappearing a few moments before, and turn back to his stevedores; then they saw the plain-clothes men approaching. The Silver Horde There was a long list of the trades, everything you could think of— carpenters, plumbers, electricians, lumbermen, stevedores, railwaymen, laundrymen, cooks, warehousemen—so on for several columns. Jimmie Higgins I left the saloon, got my rags together, and was on the quay with all my dunnage about my feet before the stevedores had turned to again. Lord Jim The volunteers and stevedores and Cubans heard him, open- mouthed and with panic-stricken eyes. Ranson's Folly The Retriever commenced taking on cargo at seven o'clock the following morning, with Mr. Murphy on shipboard and Matt Peasley on the dock superintending the gang of stevedores. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley The following morning would find the wharf swarming with stevedores and echoing to the rattle of trucks, the clank of hoists, and the shrill whistles of the signalmen. The Silver Horde The small, strong, agile Japanese stevedores had this task completed by 8:30 P. M. and when we returned to the deck after supper another scene was on. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan The thumping was continuous, not unlike the noise good stevedores make when loading against time. The Eye of Zeitoon The promoter's wandering eye shifted to the line of stevedores trundling their trucks into the hold, then up to the crane with its straining burden of bridge material. The Iron Trail If I'm not on the job a bundle of shingles may come flying down from above and kill a man, or that heavy cargo block may crack a stevedore on the head. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley The fisherman at once went round with Malchus to the abodes of several men regarded as authorities by the sailors and stevedores. The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal With one hand he received the bamboo tally-sticks from the stevedores and with the other paid the cash for service rendered. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan He would not stand and soak himself, shoulder to shoulder with stevedores and longshoremen. The Spoilers A sawmill shrieked complainingly; a noisy switch-engine shunted rows of flat cars back and forth, tooting lustily; the rattle of steam- winches and the cries of stevedores from a discharging freighter echoed against the hillsides. The Iron Trail From the noise I inferred that there must be four or five men, and from the ease with which they shifted the cases about some of them must have been pretty husky stevedores. The Poisoned Pen Conspicuous among them were the sailors and fishermen from the port, armed with oars, and the gang of stevedores with heavy clubs. The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal It is called being a stevedore, and no doubt his being an Admiral helped him to get it. The Hohenzollerns in America Never had the Annamites and the Chinamen, who in Saigon act as stevedores, appeared to him so lazy, so intolerable. The Clique of Gold I remembered parting with him at Prince's Dock Gates, in the midst of a swarm of police-officers, trackmen, stevedores, beggars, and the like. Omoo When the ship landed even the stevedores gathered on the shore and gave an English cheer. Mark Twain's Speeches According to a less familiar tradition, Isaac lived in a seaport town, where he earned a poor livelihood as stevedore. Rashi Five thousand stevedores at the Putilov wharves greet the new Government. Ten Days That Shook the World The air took on a blue tinge as it does in Indian summer, and no stevedore ever out-stevedored Stella's utterances, which were both long and loud. Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' Solon's a sort of—sort of stevedore at the Colfax place. Thankful's Inheritance Bargees from the Rh�ne, stevedores, boot-blacks, clerks, weavers, the club members, in fact the whole town. Tartarin De Tarascon He was built like a greyhound with the shoulders of a stevedore. The Lost Road I had it from the stevedore who has been loading their cargo. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes He make good wages on the docks—a stevedore. The Foolish Virgin Thousands of men, in many branches of trade, quit work,—draymen, sand teamsters, porters and packers, longshoremen, stevedores, warehousemen, stationary engineers, sailors, marine firemen, stewards, sea-cooks, and so forth,—an interminable list. War of the Classes Yes, stevedores who have come to collect the baggage and take it ashore. Tartarin De Tarascon Just a common ship’s boat, which the man who owns her uses for taking the workmen and stevedores to and from the ships loading at the buoys off Greenhithe. Notes on Life and Letters Up the gangway were trooping the customs officers, the surveyor, the agent’s clerk, and the stevedores. The Strength of the Strong He gave me my first job as stevedore only three days after I got married.” Within the Tides He said, "These are not pirates, there have been no pirates for ages, these are stevedores." Tartarin De Tarascon |
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