| 单词 | stoker |
| 例句 | “They run up the starboard side of the ship, up two decks, through the stokers’ quarters, and into their dining hall. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z The hold was in the very front of the ship, past the mail sorting room and the cabins where the stokers and firemen stayed. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z “Really? Big deal. Who? One of the furnace stokers?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His father worked as a stoker at the factory, barely earning enough to make ends meet. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The door to the stokers’ quarters was locked. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z He remembered what Mr. Andrews had told him: The ladders are in the stokers’ quarters, and they run up three decks. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Stansbury fits what I would consider the classic mold of a captain: Bigger, and a more experienced biker, than the stoker. Tandem cycling tests more than just fitness From the stokers in the boiler rooms to the Strauses in first class, every life bore significance — just as, on a stage, every voice in the variegated cast is essential to completing Yeston’s euphonious tapestry. Voices raised ebulliently, passengers of ‘Titanic’ head for the deep 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Though the stoker threw on more coal, the engineer lost his air brakes at the seventy-five-foot-high Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, and Old 97 plummeted to earth and killed nine people—a true story. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z He added, “The golden rule of tandeming is that the stoker is always right.” Tandem cycling tests more than just fitness His latest is no less bizarre: a pitch-black allegory about an Afghan war veteran employed as a factory stoker. The Stoker – review 2013-05-16T21:02:01Z On deck are three trap doors as holds for the coal stokers. A ‘Titanic’ challenge: Creating the ‘floating city’ within relatively limited space 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z This kind of disparity persisted in death, when many monuments to the dead didn't include crew members, such as stokers and busboys. 'Titanic Tragedy': what went down with the ship 2012-04-05T18:16:55Z Several guide dogs sit by their owners, or wait for their return, while captains, stokers and volunteers hang out and socialize. These blind New Yorkers are biking across New York City 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Plus, her great-grandfather was "a stoker" who used to "regale Delta's family with stories of working on the docks in Prohibition-era New York". New band of the day ? No 955: Delta Maid 2011-01-27T16:35:21Z In 1939, Mr. Abrahams found a job as a stoker on a merchant ship and spent nearly two years at sea before settling in England. Peter Abrahams, whose novels detailed South Africa’s racial injustice, dies at 97 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z In that regard, she is not so unlike many of the heroes created by the young O’Neill, like the karma-challenged brothers of “Beyond the Horizon” or the rebellious ship stoker of “The Hairy Ape.” Theater Review: David Auburn Stages ‘Anna Christie’ in the Berkshires 2013-08-26T21:24:04Z In 1939, while working as an editor at a socialist magazine in Durban, he found work as a stoker abroad a freighter and made his way to London. Peter Abrahams, a South African Who Wrote of Apartheid and Identity, Dies at 97 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z We’re in the stokers’ quarters of a trans-Atlantic liner, where the men who feed the ship’s furnace reside, rolling with the movements of the ocean. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z After initially training on motor gun boats at Portland, Mr Gaines transferred to become a petrol stoker on landing craft. D-Day veteran Edward Gaines from Poole dies aged 98 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Ditlev later became a coal stoker, but he was frequently unemployed. Overlooked No More: Tove Ditlevsen, Danish Writer of Confessional Autofiction 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z The party and its allies spent millions in the primary promoting GOP state Sen. Ron Hanks, a stoker on the Trump crazy train, in hopes of landing him as Bennet’s opponent. Column: How bad could November be for Democrats? Watch Colorado and see 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Coal fired boilers fuelled by stokers kept the heat up for the tropical plants. 200-year-old palm comes down in Edinburgh Botanics renovations 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Built like a Eugene O’Neill coal stoker, with ears that stuck out and heavy eyebrows above kind eyes, he could read as cuddly or threatening, or even cuddly and threatening, as necessary. Why Lou Grant best captured Ed Asner's genius 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Instead, he funded his passage by working as a stoker on a ship, before making contact with some friends in Belfast who transported him to Omagh. NI 100: The election that allowed a two-year-old to vote 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The rider in front is called the pilot; the rear is referred to as the stoker. Bicycle industry still booming a year into the pandemic 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z As he returned to England, on RMS Empress of Russia, the troopship found itself without stokers. Prince Philip: How the Royal Navy shaped the Duke of Edinburgh 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z While his attacker’s motives remained murky, it was hard to miss the fierce moral lesson: a stoker of violence had fallen victim to it. Stop comparing Trump to the infamous racist George Wallace. It's unfair to Wallace | Samuel G Freedman 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Neither of her parents made it to high school, and her father worked at a Chrysler plant as a stoker in the furnaces. Alyce Gullattee, beloved Howard University psychiatrist, dies after testing positive for covid-19 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z A large pile of stoker coal was stored in the back of a truck, ready to be sold. Wyoming business supplies coal to small-scale users 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The man frying the regular burgers, and it was usually a burly, manly man, was like the stoker shovelling coal into the furnace of a steam engine fast enough to reach Manchester by sundown. I flipped burgers at McDonald’s – and discovered the joys of insubordination | Hugh Muir 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z I want to transfer the contents of the former to the latter in a succession of quick, mindless moves, like a stoker shoveling coal into the boiler of a steam locomotive. Perspective | Allow me to air my family’s dirty laundry: I’m clotheslined by the clothesline 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z He grabbed a fire stoker and pried the door open and ran with his wife to the safety of the street. Italian town destroyed in quake was preparing food festival 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z It was revived in the 1940s, when Sylheti migrants from present-day Bangladesh began working in the catering business after toiling on British ships as boiler stokers. Britons Perturbed by a Troubling Shortage of Curry Chefs 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The more sensitive side of life at sea is also explored in a collection of illustrated letters written by a chief stoker to his sweetheart. Museum reveals Navy's past 100 years 2014-04-03T02:49:06Z Prague abounded at the time with unusually well-educated furnace stokers, window cleaners and garbage collectors. Op-Ed Contributor: A Scandal in Bohemia 2013-07-10T00:59:45Z You expect to find here the graves of drivers and sappers, troopers and stokers, havildars and sepoys. Stories of love and loss in a desert war grave 2012-11-10T00:45:49Z Debt was the engine of the massive boom in the economy from 2002 onward, and the shadow banking system was the grimy stoker shoveling the fuel. Bucks Blog: The Boom (and Bust) That Your Mortgage Bonds Built 2012-10-03T16:05:02Z It depends how you work with a particular stoker. Paralympics 2012: This is a chance it would be crazy not to take 2012-08-29T14:51:45Z A stoker in the hold of a ship, throwing coal into the furnace, represents one of them. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z They were the first trippers—spinning operatives, weavers, twisters, warp-dressers, mechanics, asbestos-hands, stokers, clerks, shopkeepers, the grey and unnumbered multitude itself. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Literally imprisoned below the armoured deck, the grimy stokers were preparing for the coming ordeal. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Debt, and consumer debt in particular, was the fuel that the stokers of the financial industry shoveled into the engine of the 1990-2007 economic boom. Bucks Blog: The Boom (and Bust) That Your Mortgage Bonds Built 2012-10-03T16:05:02Z But it's a different question when you put us on a tandem with our respective stokers – if you were to swap us over, the times would look dramatically different. Paralympics 2012: This is a chance it would be crazy not to take 2012-08-29T14:51:45Z What is in the mind of the stoker when he thinks of the power of coal? The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z In No. 5 boiler room there was no water above the stokehold plates, until a rush of water came through the pass between the boilers from the forward end, and drove the leading stoker out. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z And yet, for easygoing joviality and good comradeship the naval stoker is hard to beat. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z One was a passenger wearing black tie and a fur-collared overcoat; the others were a coal stoker and a seaman. F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions about the Titanic and New York 2012-04-14T15:16:35Z The stokers were called upon to make stupendous efforts, and as one man they answered to the call. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z The stoker thinks of what he sees and feels: the coal, in burning, gives heat; the heat makes the water boil; the steam pushes the piston-rod, and so forth. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z Thus the University stokers and engineer were put on double shifts; the cells were charged during the night and the charging current and battery-potential measured at intervals. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z At the double the men romped aft--every seaman, marine, stoker, and "idler" not actually prevented by pressure of duty elsewhere. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z The driver was only stupefied, and the stoker fortunately only dangerously, not fatally, wounded. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In every hold the stokers were hard at work, shovelling with frantic energy more coal upon the furnaces, until the sky-line was black with long clouds of rolling smoke. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z The water came into the engine-room in tons, stopping the engines, putting the fires out, and nearly drowning the engineers and stokers.... The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The stokers and others found it equally impossible to remain. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z But just then reinforcements came in the form of MacGregor and his husky stokers and engineers. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z The train drew up to the platform; and I saw that the stoker was at his post, and that the engine-driver was an Englishman. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Third-class included an interesting quartette of stubby Spanish soldiers, and one slim naval stoker, whose flexible movements and sportive bonhomie were in striking contrast to the stolid immobility of his companions. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z It is also said that a stoker from on board an English steamer from Bombay introduced the cholera into Damietta. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Her son was taken on as a stoker, and worked on the ship some days before she was ready for sea. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z It was indeed as the stokers said, and a strong friendship and mutual regard had sprung up between the grizzled old engineer and the enthusiastic wireless operator. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z It was now rather more than half-past eight, and I had risen to go to the door when I saw the guard returning to the wine-shop with a man whose dress indicated the stoker. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Possibly the stoker felt more at home on shipboard. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z It was only when Bannock explained the history of the shanghaied stoker that he realized his real danger. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z I've been chief engineer on his ship for five or six years, and before that—I shipped as a stoker at first, M'Kissock, at Yedo, in Japan. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z “Why, he went ragin’ back and made a dive for one of the stokers that was up at the engine-room hatchway gettin’ a bit of fresh air, and he almost nabbed him. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z "The Count Spezzato!" said the stoker, now leaving the table, and speaking in Italian. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z I have seven stokers under me, all Spaniards. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z She had succeeded in bribing a coal stoker, and had taken him unawares. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Deeply moved by these experiences I next accosted a brawny stoker covered with the grime of his calling. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 28th, 1916 2012-02-23T03:00:40.467Z So I've put out the fires and stopped the wheels and paid off the stokers till now. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The stoker had set down the bottles, and now taking them up followed the guard at a slower pace. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z On the Renown the same healthy spirit was to be found in every one aboard, from the Flag-Lieutenant down to the humblest stoker. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z The price of the telegram he had sent to Jones was all he had had in the world; and he had borrowed that from a friendly stoker. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z In some English works coal is still employed for direct heating with various forms of mechanical stokers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z At the end of that time he escaped, made his way to Sicily, and thence back to America as stoker in an Italian ship. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z The stoker must have passed over it; why not I? The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The economizer and the stoker gear and worm were driven by a Brotherhood three cylinder hydraulic engine. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z I am not referring to your fellow stokers. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z We have in our mind a church which is set in a dense population of railwaymen, engine drivers, stokers, guards, porters, &c. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z And an answering shout came up from the engine-room, where the stokers were at work. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z I stood up, and at that moment the stoker opened the door of the furnace, and turned toward me, shovel in hand, to put in the coals. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Considerable space is also given to the examination of the waste gases, and several of the representative English and American mechanical stoker and similar appliances are described. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z I opened the door with pardonable violence, and found the guard, the stationmaster, the driver, and the stoker, seated on barrels round a packing case, on which they were playing a game of cards. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z An engine-fitter from the works was sent on board to take charge of the engine, and another stoker was engaged; the launch resuming her running. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z Only about a dozen petty officers and a couple of hundred sailors and stokers escaped, and most of them were half-mad with fear. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z As soon as the train emerges from the shelter of the trees the steam gauge falls, and the stoker is obliged to throw in a liberal supply of fuel to bring it up again. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z The stoker of steam-engine can point out defects, and suggest simple remedies, which might escape the utmost penetration and official research of the principal engineer. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Dr. Walker, of necessity, remains in charge of the ship, with two stewards, a cook, a carpenter, and a stoker. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z It was the square steel coal-breaker used by the stoker, and he brought it up. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z You see, you can’t understand that; and, as I feared, your wife thinks it horrible to be sitting at table with a man who has been a porter, a dock-labourer and a stoker....” The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z We are a strange crowd—artists, stokers, solicitors, clerks, blue-jackets, soldiers, architects, chauffeurs,—all are mixed together. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Here's to you, trainmen— Couplers and stokers— All you conductors— You with your hand on the throttle! The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z I have been giving some attention to the engines and boiler, and hope, with the help of the two stokers, to be able to make use of our steam power. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z No one manifested any marked inclination to act as stoker. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z “Yes, Hans; and, later on, I worked as a stoker in an iron-works, like my father’s.” The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z Of the many aboard the ship the only ones who did not know what had happened were the engine crew and stokers. The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal 2011-09-05T02:00:21.637Z Watched and harassed, they were not as happy as the hard-worked, gasping stoker, who came up from below, like a Vulcan from his fiery forge, to get a breath of the stifling equatorial air. An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z To-day the steam was got up, and with the help of our two stokers I worked the engines for a short time. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z Yes, sir; gardeners, stokers for the engines and such like. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z We brought her up from the bunkers where first she was placed, because the stokers flatly refused her society in the dark. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The engineer would drop at his engine; the stoker as he shovelled up the coal; the passenger would lie in his berth. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Suddenly a terrific explosion was heard, and the great vessel was blown to pieces, the only men who escaped with their lives being a stoker, a sergeant in the Midlandshire regiment, and an officer's servant. A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z We are now without either engineer or engine-driver: we have only two stokers, and they know nothing about the machinery. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z That is to say, they are the gardeners, stokers of the power house, sweepers, and so forth. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z One stoker was put aside, for he had a temperature. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Stanley, the skipper; an English lad, who acted as his amanuensis and general help; the engineer, two black boys, who acted as servants and assistant stokers; and Henty himself. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z Then turning to Woller and the Commander-in-Chief, I added: "I am sure, gentlemen, you will, for once in your lives, condescend to officiate as stokers." A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z Father used to say he was like an engine with a bad stoker. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z The stokers slumbered peacefully, as did the comrades they should have awakened, when the twinkle of a masthead light crept nearer from out at sea. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The cut over the stoker’s nose was a bad one. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z In the low neighbourhood nearer the station, inhabited by guards and porters and stokers and signalmen, where engines are perpetually whistling and screaming and letting off steam, p. 38there was no excitement at all. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z Lieutenant Johansen had joined the expedition as stoker, subsequently acting as the meteorological assistant, and his choice by the leader was amply justified by results. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z It came like a black cloud over the proceedings, but it was only the stoker’s neglect. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z Brothers, let in the stoker, 'And form a procession to bring in the poker! Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z A Brazilian stoker, as he passed, saw me standing in thought, and I suppose imagined—for he could not ask—that I wanted to cut the string, but had no knife. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Dowd will not be satisfied if you do not have the opportunity of identifying the stoker you say you saw talking with Miss Lentz. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z "Yes, hot enough while we are lying at the dock," answered the stoker. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z I would not wish for a better specimen of faith and confidence than was shown by one of my patients, Edward Brown, a stoker, with whose little narrative I will commence my sketches. Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon 2011-07-07T02:00:30.453Z Another pause succeeded, and from the doors there peered out the grim faces of half a dozen stokers, who had, down below, felt the contagion of excitement. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z I quite believed what I had been told of his successful way with refractory stokers. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z He ordered the crew and stokers who came pouring from below, to stand by their respective boats, but not to lower them until word was given. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z The stokers in the engine rooms poured in the coal, and the steam rose higher and higher. Four American Naval Heroes Paul Jones, Admiral Farragut, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Dewey 2011-07-04T02:00:24.047Z But what I say, speaking as Edward Brown, stoker, is this: Make a good fight of it, no matter how black things may look, and leave the rest to Him.” Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon 2011-07-07T02:00:30.453Z In a few minutes Captain Pardee was the only man on board the Irene, with the exception of the stokers, who were busily preparing the fires. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z Ordering the leading stoker to ease down the engines he signalled by means of hand-flags to the steamboat astern to likewise reduce speed. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z I only thought so because the officer who interrupted the conversation I overheard seemed to consider him a stoker. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Stalwart bluejackets, stripped to their singlets, and grimy stokers crowded to the stanchion rails to watch the transhipment of the captured Germans. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z I say, is that a new stoker I see there? King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z Of a sudden the stoker, crouching low, made a vengeful bolt forward. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z "Well, I hope I'm wrong," thought the sub as he ordered the leading stoker to "let her rip for all she's worth." Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Of course he will remember if he drove a seaman or a stoker off the after deck this morning.” Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z He and five others agreed, as did two or three stokers, and were then ordered to remain aft and not communicate with any others of the crew. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z The engineer called up the new stoker, a tall young fellow in the flannel shirt open at the neck, the loose reach-me-down, and the black-lead coated trousers affected by his kind. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z This time the stoker did not regain his feet quite so soon. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z “It doesn’t please me to boss your stokers just yet.” The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z Of course, the girl of the Red Mill had not taken so close a look at the ship’s officer who had driven the stoker off the deck, as she had at the stoker himself. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z When the stoker resumes his place, he naturally imagines that he is resuming it upon the former conditions, and no one undeceives him. Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism 2011-04-27T02:00:20.770Z You see, Byles, your late stoker, had to remain at home and attend to his sick mother.” King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z “Right hot off the bat,” jeered the stokers. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z Even as a novelist I could make nothing out of the stoker and engineer class. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z The mystery of which she had caught a single thread that morning at dawn when she had observed this black-eyed woman talking with the German-looking seaman, or stoker, was now divulged. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z The regular stoker having gotten well, resumed his duties. Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism 2011-04-27T02:00:20.770Z “No that lang, sir; just a wee while,” the stoker replied in a somewhat husky voice. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z Here, you stokers, you clear out, too, and don’t you let me catch you raising any more rows on my beat or your ship will sail without you when she goes out again. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z On the lifeboat itself the gray, sun-shrouded morning showed a company of eight men, counting Newcomb, Grant, and the stoker; seven women; four children, fretful from chill and hunger; and a half-grown cabin-boy. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z He stood at one side as the stokers filed in from forward, ready to relieve those working in the fireroom below. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Are these men free, the stoker and his like? Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism 2011-04-27T02:00:20.770Z The only man on board who had observed this—and he had not given a second thought to it—was M’Cracken, the new stoker. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z But neither of the lads observed them, nor did they hear the shouts and songs of the stokers above the roar of the traffic in the busy street. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z The crowd surged forward, shouting questions about the fate of certain Liverpool stokers and seamen. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z “He was the man who spoke to the stoker—yes.” Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z So he pictured the Fancy as a steamer, not so large as the Empress, of course, but fairly good-sized, manned by engineers, stokers, stewards, and a crew of sailors. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z Then Tom entered the car of the airship, followed by Abdul and the stoker. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z The first intimation the boys had that trouble was abroad was when a hulking stoker let fly a heavily booted foot at the little apple wagon. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z She shared the tarpaulin which had been spread in the first place for the stoker and two children. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z I do think, however, that the 78 woman and that seaman, or stoker, or whatever and whoever he is, should be watched. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Whereupon the more spirited among the hands urged their mates to strike, and one of the stokers suggested the blowing up of the boiler. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z “This is ripping,” said the stoker, as the machine rose higher and higher into the air. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z It caught the stoker fairly on the side of the jaw. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z The stoker's moaning mounted to a horrible, hoarse yell. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z I want you to see the stokers together, Miss Fielding, as the watches are being changed at eight bells. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z He called their grumbling mutiny, demanded police from the town, drove the leaders out of the mill and brought an action against the stoker. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z Besides, I’m only Scotch when I want a stoker’s place—or when I let off some of my stories on the fellows in Booker’s. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z Just as soon as he got over his bewilderment at having been so easily handled by a boy, the stoker got to his feet. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z There was a poor devil there in the bow, a naked stoker they had picked up. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z He had to stop the ship’s engines to do this, for steam could not be kept up without the small force of stokers at his command working at top speed through their entire watch. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Archbishops and bishops—cardinals, for aught I know—have been expected, regardless of expense, to bless everything and everybody, from the sovereign down to the stokers. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Oliphant still wore his stoker’s clothes, and the black smudges on his face had given him a striking resemblance to a coal-heaver. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z Growling, the stoker thrust two fingers of one hand into his mouth, trying to force the sticky mess out. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z "I wish it would freeze the stoker's tongue," said the cabin-boy. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z And this time she did not refuse to identify clearly the woman passenger who had talked so familiarly with the flaxen-haired stoker on the afterdeck. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Once he seemed near unconsciousness when he heard the clash of iron as the stoker was banking the fires, for steam was up. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z ‘I’m M’Cracken and your stoker, sir,’ he said, ’till we get back to England.’” King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z “What?” queried one of the stoker’s own mates, for the one who had just struggled to his feet could not speak. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z Meanwhile, the stokers had drawn all the fires and had shut off steam, so that when the ship went down there was no boiler explosion. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z “You intimated that he was a stoker,” Ruth continued, with quite as much confidence as before. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Just then the man stirred, gasped, and endeavoured to free himself from the attentions of the humane leading stoker. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z The Nürnberg could steam a knot faster than the Kent, but the British stokers and engineers worked like heroes. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z “You—you say the stoker there kicked the old woman’s cart over?” questioned the policeman. The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy 2011-06-06T02:00:06.803Z A steamship fireman contributed his quota with a story of laboring through mountainous seas against furious tides when the stokers' utmost efforts served only to keep steamers from losing way. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z But a passenger talking German with a stoker! Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z The foreigners who were in possession of their faculties had "stripped to the buff" and were being rubbed down by sympathising British stokers, while heir clothes were being dried in front of the furnaces. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z A coarser kind of cloth is used for stokers and furnacemen's aprons, for salvage blankets, and gloves. Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada 2011-02-01T03:00:13.163Z The boiler furnaces are usually stoked by automatic stokers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z "Don't Touch me, or I'll Scream!" as the engine whistle said to the stoker. Mr. Punch's Railway Book 2011-01-23T03:00:16.120Z The shrill whistle started the waiting stokers down the ladder into the stoke-hole. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z The Author is acutely aware not only of the stoker but of himself. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z He had a vague idea of working his passage on a steamer as a sailor or stoker. Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z He may be on terms of easy familiarity with the movements of the heavenly bodies, yet fail to understand the right way of dealing with refractory stokers. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z "Throb-throb," churned the engines ... perhaps he had forged himself a seaman's and fireman's ticket, signed on as a deckhand or stoker, and had given the L.S.W. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z It might be that the man was not a stoker. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z When he had done the stoker reached over and added more red pepper. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z So we kept on, and I went down to join my stoker giving an eye to the engine, and after a few words I went up again and took a look about me. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z A watch of stokers and engineers is below, humping the ship along. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War This is not good for some sorts of cargo, and so terrible is the heat at times that the stokers are said to be unable to maintain the steam at full pressure. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise "I never could get my hands fit to be seen again after that time I came across as a stoker." Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune And as the Author poured out another stiff glass of this incandescent brew, the stoker put up his hand and scratched the matted black hair over his temple. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z My dear fellow, would you believe it—I got hold of a stoker who was a decayed British baronet! The Cabinet Minister A farce in four acts I suppose he'll have to tramp to Liverpool, and get on a ship as a cabin-boy or a stoker, and work his passage to America. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life A dreadful incident of this tragedy was the attempt of a stoker, maddened by pain, to escape from below by climbing up the inside of the funnel. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War "What on earth were you doing as a stoker?" Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune And suddenly, with a gesture of indescribable despair, the apparent stoker buried his face in his hands and burst into tears. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z From the forepeak swathed in darkness, came the faint unearthly echoes of the stokers' song. A Bed of Roses The last picture I had of the boiler-room was of the stokers trying to confine the infernos they had created by wedging shut the doors with their scoops. Sea-Hounds He was rescued, and proved to be a stoker, who had been sleeping below tranquilly through the explosion, the wreck, and the breaking up of the ship. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War Watchmen, police, stokers on board steamers, and many others have engagements that necessitate their working on the sabbath. Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments “It’s worse than that,” said the strange stoker. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z A thrilling story of shipwreck upon a deserted island of a millionaire's daughter and a common stoker. John Marsh's Millions From then on to the end of his narrative he paused frequently to lick with his tongue the blistered cuticle, the stoker’s sovereign remedy for a slight burn. Sea-Hounds The fate of the stokers trapped below, when disaster comes in this fashion, is a feature of naval warfare horrible to contemplate. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War In the stokers' forecastle Jack Armitage had made himself quickly known as a man whom it was unwise to monkey with. By Right of Conquest A Novel Meanwhile the Author does not forget that the stoker is material, is “copy,” is being watched, observed. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Uncle Benny and Mr. Spearman and the stoker brought the tug in. The Indian Drum What the deuce is the matter with the stoker?” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 One of the Arethusa's stokers, by the way, must have been a very powerful sleeper. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War Seized with "stoker's madness," he had rushed to the deck and jumped overboard. By Right of Conquest A Novel “We get so tough down there,” said the stoker, and paused discreetly as the servant came in with the red pepper. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z It was marvellous to think that all this had been arranged by a little fellow from Sierra Leone, employed as the stoker and driver of a steam launch. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War From far below black-faced stokers ran up the companion ladders and burst out on the topside. The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers Ninety-five able-bodied seamen, including mechanics, gunners, cooks, tailors, stokers, etc. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Her mind reverted to the handsome stoker whom they had dragged on board with such little ceremony the day the ship sailed from New York. By Right of Conquest A Novel “I don’t quite see how it is your hand doesn’t burn,” said the Author as the stoker drank. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z For Johnnie was general caterer as well as stoker, and in addition, it seemed, commander of the post at a pinch. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War The number of hands required for working this sand-pump dredger was one captain, one engineer, one stoker and four sailors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" In Philadelphia, the owners of some coke furnaces gave the new fuel a trial, in spite of the disgust of the stokers, who thought they were putting out their fires with a pile of stones. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place In the stokers you have the laborers, the mill-hands, the sweat-shop workers, the common people who toil painfully for pitiful wages, for their daily bread. By Right of Conquest A Novel “Don’t remind me of hell,” said the stoker, in a voice of inappeasable regret. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z The native stoker grinned his delight as he turned to face his master. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Without reckoning Clubin, the crew of the Durande amounted to seven men; a helmsman, a stoker, a ship's carpenter, and a cook—serving as sailors in case of need—two engineers, and a cabin boy. Toilers of the Sea Far down below the stokers began to shovel coal like mad into the furnaces. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read At moments the heat became intolerable—the stoker himself caught fire. By Right of Conquest A Novel His impression was of a very miserable black man in the greasy, blue-black garments of a stoker, a lascar probably from a steamship in the harbour, and going with a sort of lame hobble. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z And to these one rifle responded—that of the native stoker. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War The stoker of a locomotive, when on duty, is said to shovel coal at the rate of about one ton an hour. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The stokers manfully plied their shovels: with the snow whirling, and the wind blowing half a gale, the vessel struck, several hundred yards from the beach. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North "Go to hell!" cried the stoker's hoarse voice. By Right of Conquest A Novel And let it be recorded to the credit of our little Author, that he did overcome his momentary horror, that he did go quickly round the table, and that he patted that dirty stoker’s shoulder. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Your native stoker has suspicions, but you say that he is trustworthy. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War She had scrounged up a naval engineer, or what she called a naval engineer—he had once been a stoker on a ferryboat. The Knights of Arthur I was back in my room getting Phillips’s money for him, and as I looked out of the door I saw a stoker, or somebody from below decks, leaning over Phillips from behind. Titanic The two stokers had crawled out of the inferno to steal a breath of fresh air. By Right of Conquest A Novel Like most weak characters, the stoker devil was intensely egotistical. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Then again the native stoker shouted a command, and a hot musketry fire was poured into the forest. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Slowly perhaps, but surely, as he coaxes steam from the errant stokers, we draw ahead and regain our place in the line. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Some of the boats had hardly anyone but women in them; in many the stokers and stewards were quite useless at the oars. Titanic On their grimy faces the two stokers felt drops of rain. By Right of Conquest A Novel The stoker dropped the glowing piece of coal in his hand. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z He trudged off to the hut, and there for a quarter of an hour he and the little black stoker were hard at work, feeling sure that the miners would meanwhile hold all secure. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War From far down in the bowels of the ship the rattle of a stoker's shovel on the plates rings out in startling clamour, and rouses an instant desire to suppress the jarring note. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Just before she dropped another stoker sprang to the ropes with his knife open in his hand. Titanic When the tremendous seas began to break over the vessel, the stoker exulted. By Right of Conquest A Novel "Hi didn't sign as no blymed stoker," he growled at last. The Portal of Dreams And yet this little stoker had a head on his shoulders, and had shown that he was deserving of much trust. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War That last touch about the stoker will bring us in the subscriptions of the old ladies by the score.” Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 The only devil who must always remain in hell is the stoker, Brendli by name. Devil Stories An Anthology How terrified you must have been to be all alone with that dreadful stoker! By Right of Conquest A Novel The burly bronzed Corkonian was also in durance, and with the pair of officers were a picked crew of thirteen Englishmen, including engineers, steward, stokers, and able-bodied seamen, and one Spanish cabin-boy. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) Also we took a native stoker, Johnnie, who is here now, and has proved a splendid fellow. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War What! you, Mr Sawley—the stoker’s friend—the enemy of gambling—the father of Selina—condescend to so equivocal a transaction? Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 The stewards, and the crew, and the stokers would all smile, or have some joke ready, when his bright little face appeared round some unlikely corner. A Little Hero So this stoker fellow—you think you understand him? By Right of Conquest A Novel No harm happened beyond a bit of a scare to the stoker, as the kangaroo picked himself up quickly and cleared the fence. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years Trains upon the Shore Line shot through and thundered past the station; they crowded on steam; the fireman and his stoker averted their faces as they whirled by. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 The ship would be minutely, if quietly, searched; not a member of the crew, from captain to stoker, would be spared, nor any passenger against whom there might develop the least cause for suspicion. The Bandbox How often the stokers—nurses or doctors—have to pile wet ashes on a too eager blaze! When Ghost Meets Ghost Finally, when things seemed at their darkest, he heard there was a demand for stokers on the Blue Star Line. By Right of Conquest A Novel After blocking the line the guard joined the stoker, and succeeded in securing the unfortunate man, but not until he had offered a desperate resistance. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years While she was below, I secured two umbrellas from the stoker, and improvised a sort of tent with this and a back number of the Times. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 In response to such protest the Egyptian government refused Admiral Camara’s request to buy coal, and also refused to allow him to hire a hundred and fifty native stokers. The Boys of '98 The stoker, less seriously hurt than the driver, had managed to drag himself clear of the wreckage, which was beginning to catch fire. The Exploits of Juve Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantômas" Detective Tales Then it was to sign articles as stoker on the Atlanta. By Right of Conquest A Novel Upon the guard reaching the engine he found the stoker endeavouring to overpower the driver, who had evidently lost his reason. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years On his side of the street, the sidewalk was thronged with stevedores, stokers, sailors, what not. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story I leaped into the driver’s cab, where I found the driver himself and two stokers hard at work increasing the head of steam, and gave the order to go. The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War Too often the stokery is unscrupulously cramped, and the life of the stoker thereby rendered anything but pleasant. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction A thrilling story of shipwreck, upon a deserted island, of a millionaire's daughter and a common stoker. By Right of Conquest A Novel The stoker came running by with a fine hare which the train had run over. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years This quelled his curiosity a little, and he turned to his dinner, flinging it into his jaws like a stoker. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Every one of the rabble rout of stokers, stewards, and stevedores lost his wits and set up a frenzied yell. Carmen Ariza That last phrase was the result of his stoker experience. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs "Only a stoker!" yawns some one, and all go unconcernedly down to dinner. By Right of Conquest A Novel The stoker was severely injured on the head, and his recovery is more than doubtful; the engine driver contrived to leap off in time to save himself with a few bruises. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years After the fire is once lighted, little remains to the ignorance or the carelessness of the stoker. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed They might with almost as good reason search the glass-houses for some exhausted stoker to furnish out a Prince of Wales of sufficient correspondence to this picture. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare It was Guilford Duncan's hope to secure a place on her as a stoker or coal passer, to take the place of some one of the deserters. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs But the refractory stoker was necessary to the speed of the vessel, and there was no way of getting him aboard except by the main gangway. By Right of Conquest A Novel He was so eager to take part in the expedition that, as no other post could be found for him, he accepted that of stoker. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Ten days afterwards the two stokers, assistant engineer and myself, footsore and ragged, went on board the British mail steamer at Guayáquil and presented ourselves to the gruff old captain. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew The stokers down in their foul hole in the bottom of the ship had only disturbed and repelled me. The Harbor His worn-out uniform would answer all his purposes while serving as a stoker. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs You see, a big vessel like this must have its full complement of stokers, otherwise she can't get up enough steam, and the record suffers. By Right of Conquest A Novel He had charge of the dynamo and electric installation on board, acted, moreover, as stoker, and for a time assisted in the meteorological observations. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I It was here I found her some weeks after 173 I assumed the role of stoker on the British mail steamer. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew At sea," he said, "when stokers try to quit their jobs and force their way on deck, they're either put in irons or shot down as mutineers. The Harbor He could not secure employment as a stoker earning wages, but after some persuasion the steamer's captain agreed to let him "work his passage" to Cairo. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs So far, the stokers had not noticed the visitors' presence, but Mr. Fitzhugh's exclamation made them look up. By Right of Conquest A Novel The stoker worked like a pointer dog, methodically, and examining each bush clump for broken twigs. The Plunderer He was anxious to meet the stoker, but this.... Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 From the stokers' quarters presently there came a burst of singing. The Harbor She can be worked with a complement of eighteen seamen and three stokers. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' She did not exactly relish the coupling of her name with that of a disreputable stoker. By Right of Conquest A Novel No exhortations to righteousness adorn the walls, and the chaplain is joking with a big stoker who is distractedly turning over the cardigans in search for one large enough to encompass his massive frame. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships The afternoon before, he had seen a stoker on the Almirante Gomez pick up a bit of rope and absently tie knots in it while he exchanged Rabelasian humor with his fellows. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 It wasn't only stokers; it was something deep, world-wide. The Harbor Gondolas ruled, and now the Steam Launch reigns, A stoker shovels where a lover knelt. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 She was the grand lady, the pampered cabin passenger; he was the despised stoker, hardly to be counted among human beings. By Right of Conquest A Novel He could stand it no longer, but ran forward and screamed out to the stokers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 He was sweating like a stoker in that garment that might have done very well in winter. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore For against all this, on his side, was a chaotic army of ignorant men, stokers, dockers, teamsters, scattered all over this immense region, practically unorganized. The Harbor As for the two engineers, Brunton and Plover, and the stoker, Warren, they had been so far well satisfied with having nothing to do. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras A common stoker was hardly fit to breathe the same air as a girl who was heiress to millions, accustomed to all the refinements of wealth. By Right of Conquest A Novel P. water-tube boilers with automatic stokers and coal bin overhead holding two weeks' supply of coal. Manufacturing Cost Data on Artificial Ice At Plymouth he loved to watch the great G.W.R. locomotives steaming into Millbay terminus, and would often engage the driver or stoker in conversation. War Letters of a Public-School Boy The faces of individual stokers, some fiery red, some sodden gray, kept bobbing up in my memory. The Harbor "You may get along without it," said Warren, the stoker, who had joined them, "but it's not everybody on board who gets along without it." The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras He was only a stoker—a superior one to be sure, from his conversation and knowledge of things—and so far he had behaved like a gentleman. By Right of Conquest A Novel P. water-tube boilers with automatic stokers and coal bin overhead holding two weeks' supply of coal. Manufacturing Cost Data on Artificial Ice But by hard work on the part of the engineers and stokers of the Kent she was able, by five o'clock, to get within firing distance of the N�rnberg. The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources I suppose," he said gruffly after a moment, "it's because I'm still weak from typhoid—weak enough to want to see some one but stokers get into the job that's become my life. The Harbor The stokers, with flaming, swollen eyes, their tawny complexion waxing a brilliant bronze, their sweat making golden furrows therein, with their pikes and pitchforks busy, are terribly magnificent to behold. The Book of Khalid This sailor, fireman, stoker, or whatever he might be, was actually asking the heiress to millions, one of the prizes of New York's matrimonial market—to be his wife! By Right of Conquest A Novel What! you, Mr Sawley—the stoker's friend—the enemy of gambling—the father of Selina—condescend to so equivocal a transaction? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 They are stokers who fire the furnaces for the engines far down below in the bowels of the ship. Round the Wonderful World A fat old Irish stoker came drifting half-drunk up the pier with a serene and waggish smile. The Harbor The labourers hurry hither and thither, bringing 197 brushwood near; the first stoker pitches to the second, the second to the third, and he feeds the flaming, smoking, coruscating volcano. The Book of Khalid In the Red Sea the thermometer sometimes rises to 170° Fahrenheit or more, and the poor stokers have a very bad time of it. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use Our vessel is quickly off, and our Cyclopean stokers are already mopping off their black sweat in the dreadful glare of the engine-room. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 And here be all your adorers from town after comin’ to tea at the house, and you lookin’ like the 251 stoker of an engine with black grease half an inch thick on your cheek.” Hepsey Burke And then climbing down more ladders until we were, as I was told, within ten feet of the keel of the ship, we came into the stokers' quarters. The Harbor He was, after all, the stoker down in the hole, and without him everything would stop. The Prairie Child One of the most ingenious stokers is the De Brouwer, shown at work in Fig. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use Pierce, of whom Day thought he had got rid in Rio, was employed as stoker on the yacht. Hurricane Island We thought that steam-coaches generally followed the directing of no hand except the "stoker's;" but it certainly is always much liker a raven than a dove. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 For two years he was a stoker—on ships of all kinds all over the world. The Harbor In glowing words the speaker painted the miner's life and that of the stokers who kept the furnaces. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Engine-driver, stoker, and guard are alone in close direct association with the machine. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production "You could never hear him, so you could not, not at all that distance," the Cardiff stoker objected. The Dop Doctor The crew, engineer, and stokers were all Chinks. It, and Other Stories In older ships, like this one, a "lead stoker" stood at the head of the line and set the pace for the others to follow. The Harbor Unwillingly my pen has once again to trace the lines which are to record the death of another of our poor fellows, Frederick Smyth, a stoker. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 From that, I became a stoker, first on board a boat, and then on a locomotive. Mugby Junction "He did that for sure," put in the Cardiff stoker. The Dop Doctor Of course the stoke-hold was instantly filled with high-pressure steam, and before the stokers could escape, three of them were scalded to death. Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War But that hour with J. K. and his stokers gave me a jolt. The Harbor Larger use of smoke consumers and mechanical stokers. The Economic Aspect of Geology I’ve known a stoker that had passed the inspection, come on to the engine as drunk as a fly, flop down among the coals, and sleep there like a log for the whole run. Mugby Junction "And how will he know that, maybe you would be telling?" demanded the Cardiff stoker incredulously. The Dop Doctor Ask not if yon luckless stoker, Blown into the air, survive— These are trifles, while the broker Quotes our shares at Ninety-five. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Two stokers were bringing in a huge boiler. The Harbor He was an American negro, who, after having been a stoker and sailor, had settled here as a coprah trader. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific I had to be my own stoker then. Mugby Junction "And he never saw her no more, so he did not!" commented the Cardiff stoker as the pipe travelled from hand to hand to be smelt at, dandled, worshipped by every man in turn. The Dop Doctor "Old Joe don't let her go more than quarter speed," said the diminutive stoker warningly. Bones in London Yes—to-morrow morning—to have a look at his stoker friends. The Harbor “Sure to be a row about the grub,” murmured the stoker. Waiting for Daylight Seeing the engine almost close upon us, I cried to my stoker to jump. Mugby Junction "And look you now, if the man is not lighting a pipe," objected the Cardiff stoker, whose religious tendencies were greatly fostered by the surroundings and conditions of siege life. The Dop Doctor He felt a touch on his arm, and looked down at the diminutive stoker. Bones in London I went into saloons full of dockers and stokers, and out of the low harsh hubbub there the word "strike!" came repeatedly to my ears, recklessly from drunken tongues. The Harbor I was somewhat annoyed, on my way to England, by finding that the men on board,—the sailors, the stokers, and stewards,—regarded me as a most cruel person. The Fixed Period When I say seven men and boys, I mean my mates—stokers, porters, and so forth. Mugby Junction The one who now swam toward them was evidently a stoker—a powerful creature. Where the Souls of Men are Calling The jolly old stoker, aged seventeen, shook a grimy face. Bones in London We have our own dockers to start it from dock—we have our own stokers, our own engineers—we have our own pilots—we have all! The Harbor The sailor, the stoker of steamers, the man with the clout, The chantyman bent at the halliards putting a tune to the shout, The drowsy man at the wheel and the tired look-out. Modern British Poetry Nobody knows anything about it but the driver and the stoker. Mugby Junction The piece of oar rose high above his head and, as the crazed stoker was about to lay hand upon the box, came down with all his strength. Where the Souls of Men are Calling Innumerable steamboats take the place of the wherries at the present day, and stokers and engineers have superseded the watermen. Charles I Makers of History "Yes, the ships by the stokers," he said. The Harbor Or else we must get jobs as stokers. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns "You will soon," replied the stoker, and a roar of merriment rose from the lips of the men within hearing. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War The first night no one came to dress his head; but the second night a quaint rough stoker put in an appearance, and, chatting cheerfully the while, made his head more or less comfortable. The Tale of a Trooper The watch was Paolo's, who had persuaded four stokers and six of the forward hands to his opinion. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea "As a tribute to all the dead stokers," he said. The Harbor As to the fiery Apollyon, he was, as Mr Smooth-it-away observed, "The very man to manage the engine," and he has been made chief stoker. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. The stokers were kept hard at work making the great fires roar, until the steam-gauge showed the highest pressure the boilers could bear. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 Mac sat down by the engine-room manhole and listened to great and wonderful stories from the leading stoker of dashes up the Narrows, long patrols in winter storms, and thrilling times during the landing. The Tale of a Trooper It was near noon when we had buried the two stokers shot by the skipper, and more on in the afternoon before the decks were made straight, and the traces of the scuffle quite obliterated. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea There I saw them peer over the edge and listen to the drunken stokers singing in the barrooms deep under all these flower beds and all this adventurous chatter of ours. The Harbor “You see, we’ve got double engines and we travel under forced draught, with the stokers stripped to the waist and doing eight shifts a day.” The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Down in the boiler-room the stokers were throwing coal upon the roaring fires; and in the engine-room the engineer stood with his hand on the throttle, waiting for the signal to get under way. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 They were kindness itself, and when the prisoners came on board the seamen met the seamen and escorted them forward like honoured guests, while our stokers did the same for their opposite numbers. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories At the fifth shot, a gigantic crash resounded from below, and the stokers rushed above with the news that the fore stoke-hold had three feet of water in it. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea This duty and that of the stoker are generally combined. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A scalped stoker is the outward and visible sign of his utter extermination. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 The light glared from the furnaces of the steamers, lighting up the half-naked forms of the stokers. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 From the clouds of dense black smoke pouring from the funnels they knew that the stokers were being urged to their best efforts. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub The Scotland Yard men scoured all the cabins, from steerage up; they even quizzed the engineers, the stokers, the cooks, the multitude of men and passengers. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play One was a Petty Officer and L.T.O., the other a stoker. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions If any one class more than another deserved special recognition during this war, it was the railway staff—the drivers, stokers, and guards. The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland The stokers and furnaces are hid from view, and the cabins appear to be floating on one huge cotton bale. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 An engineman and a stoker were leaning over the bulwark to cool themselves. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Fourth, and by no means least, was Sandy Brown, a Glasgow stoker, who had skipped away in a tramp from the Broomielaw because of another fellow's wife. The Kangaroo Marines The request-man was a young stoker, little more than a boy, and his eyes were troubled. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions One of the stokers, seeing his condition, brought him a large flask of brandy. Jack 1877 After much argument and conversation, our team was finally selected, the last man chosen being a black stoker of great size and strength. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly On this part of the line the troops had often to be their own stokers and drivers, with the result that sniping Boers were not the only peril a passenger had to fear. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back It was learned afterward that her stokers were dead beat. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The last request-man—the man with "private affairs"—was a small leading stoker with a face seamed by innumerable tiny wrinkles. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions "That is where the coal is kept," said the engineer, carelessly; "and on the other side the stokers sleep." Jack 1877 Soon afterwards, our black stoker made two brilliant catches, one after the other, the Treasure quickly bowled their last man, and the innings closed for seventy-three runs. “black stoker made two brilliant catches.” The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly As all the regular railway employ�s had fled with the departing Boers, it became necessary to call for volunteers from among the soldiers to do duty as drivers, stokers and guards. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back No lights were allowed—not even a cigar; the engine-room hatch-ways were covered with tarpaulins, at the risk of suffocating the unfortunate engineers and stokers in the almost insufferable atmosphere below. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Seven hundred men—bluejackets, stokers, and marines—hurriedly formed up and began to divest themselves of their clothes. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions The stokers are in water up to their shoulders before the voice of the chief engineer is heard: "Save yourselves, my men, if you can!" Jack 1877 Finally, he determined to start with the black stoker and me. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly We honestly regretted that, owing to the derailment and destruction of trains, drivers, stokers, and often innocent passengers were launched into eternity. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War We found the engineer and one solitary uninjured stoker below, the others having all been killed by a bursting shell. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant They were drawn up regardless of class or rating, and a burly Marine Artilleryman, wriggling out of his cholera belt, laughed in the blackened face of a stoker fresh from the furnace door. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions This did not prevent his son from earning his bread as a stoker on the Cydnus. Jack 1877 The match was resumed at half-past three, before an increased gathering of onlookers; and three distinct rounds of applause greeted the gigantic stoker and me as we marched to the wickets. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly You've sweated me all day like a stoker at your work; now go on and finish it up. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Both the captain and Chard are more than half-drunk; and the chief engineer tells me that for some reason they have given liquor to the firemen and stokers, who have set him at defiance. Tessa 1901 God bless those stokers, far down below those decks, confident that the captain who commanded them was on the bridge, and that he would never flinch nor fail in the hour of trial! America First Patriotic Readings When he had emptied his cinders, broken his coal, and filled his furnaces, he slept the sleep of exhaustion and intoxication; for a stoker must drink if he lives. Jack 1877 His sword in his hand, he went down the forward companionway, where he met a group of frightened firemen and stokers huddled below. A Prisoner of Morro In the Hands of the Enemy This so worked on the nerves of the stokers that they got up a mutiny, in which the other sailors joined, the object being to force the captain to return the steamer to England. A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle Tessa knew that the half-dozen of white firemen and stokers were on bad terms with the native crew. Tessa 1901 I think that is very unfair to the stoker. The Stoker's Catechism Everything I have said in regard to steamships applies to them; and the comfort to the stokers and the general reduction in labor would be very marked indeed. Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 The men flew to their posts; and whilst the cumbrous screw was descending slowly into the water, the stokers had roused the smouldering embers into life. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 Down below iron floors stokers and trimmers were sweating, engineers were watching and nursing and feeding the great steel bondagers that drove us along; but how many of the light-hearted passengers ever thought of them? The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 That stokers on ocean liners are from long service so used to the heat of the furnaces that they don't notice it. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind So there is hardly any similarity between a stationary boiler stoker and a locomotive stoker, except keeping the steam up perhaps; the loco. stoker is the king of all stokers. The Stoker's Catechism The fighting part of the expedition was soon ready, but there was difficulty about stokers. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War 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 It was not the second shift of stokers. Tom Slade on a Transport We should say that they will be found to make the most admirable stokers, not showing the dirt like the white men. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 There were two stoke-holds, one fore and one abaft the funnel, and four boilers in each, and four furnaces in each boiler, and three stokers in each stoke-hold, also three trimmers in each stoke-hold. The Stoker's Catechism The raiders passed, the banging and the booming stopped; but there was then no driver and stoker for the train. The U-boat hunters I knew that turpentine yarn was a lie, but I wanted to be sure, so I thought I'd ask one of the stokers who had come up for a little air. A List To Starboard 1909 He crossed the saloon, went down the companionway and through the second class cabin dining-room where the soldiers hailed him pleasantly, and, passing the stokers’ washroom, tiptoed along the dim, narrow passageway. Tom Slade on a Transport An officer in a fighting-top used a telegraph-dial, and a stoker in the depths his shovel, in a chink of light from the furnace. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Question.—Does familiarity with one's work as stoker sometimes lead to carelessness and then to mishaps? The Stoker's Catechism A mate, an engineer, four stokers, a dozen seamen, eighteen men in all, formed the crew of the Dream. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery You and your friend will guard the aft companion-way, and help the Chief Engineer take care of the stokers and the steerage. A List To Starboard 1909 It will be a gr-reat race," he announced, "and I may have to kill a stoker. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective Out on deck, herded forward, were master and mate, seamen, engineers and stokers, a motley-looking outfit of twenty-one men all told. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers Question.—What advantage to the employer is the self-acting stoker for steam boilers? The Stoker's Catechism When he found out, he closed it up and strapped it back in its place at the foot of the stoker's bunk. The Stoker and the Stars "You go without," said Warren, the stoker; "but everyone don't go without." The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras This left us fourteen men, counting the former mutineers and the native stokers. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure From the Captain down to the under stokers he had been with all a familiar figure for many years, and he had a pleasant word and a shake of the hands for everybody. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 Answer.—There is a wide difference between the methods, not only of firing but of the general work of the firemen and the stoker. The Stoker's Catechism It had to be something like that, about the stoker. The Stoker and the Stars As to the two engineers, Brunton and Plover, and the stoker, Warren, there had been nothing for them to do as yet, and Shandon could not tell anything about their capabilities. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Billie Blue's dirk had put a temporary quietus on my stoker, and the rest had fled as quickly as they had come. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure Gathering speed again, the express train ran away without them, and a few minutes afterward a locomotive came flying along in pursuit of it with an engineer, a stoker and the sheriff in the cab. Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys Question.—But are not these "self-acting stokers" smoke consumers as well? The Stoker's Catechism It was an odd thing to see—the stoker, and the Jek, who did not stand as tall. The Stoker and the Stars By considerable talk and more elbowing, we made our way to the boys; and, with the aid of a friendly stoker, got them both safely in my state-room. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death A stoker swung a cutlas and rushed for him. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure As soon as the passengers were back in the coaches, and the engineer and stoker in the cab, every one gave Jack and his friends a parting cheer. Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys Then he tries another country, in which the king gives him a post as a sort of stoker in the royal distillery, which he soon all but burns down. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore He stopped when the stoker was a few paces away. The Stoker and the Stars But on the trip much trouble was had with some of the stokers and engineers, who insisted upon drinking some liquor smuggled aboard. American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt So the ladies got down and went flower-hunting, whilst the driver and the stoker and the guard sat on the fence together and talked politics and the latest mail from England. Despair's Last Journey By this time his chief had passed on, but Lavis, lingering, saw the stoker gulp a mouthful of water, hold it a moment, and squirt it, s-s-t! contemptuously into a heap of hot ashes. Sonnie-Boy's People He, the Admiral, wants to take all the 600 stokers serving in the Royal Naval Division back to the ships. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 "I signed on their ship," the stoker said. The Stoker and the Stars “I am quite sure,” said Hadria, “that the stokers of hell are practical spirits.” The Daughters of Danaus Dalton was, in a sense, a self-made man, having begun as stoker of one of the annealing furnaces when both he and the Works were young. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls They were led down and down into the depths of the ship, and with despair Zaidos discovered that he was to be one of the assistant stokers. Shelled by an Unseen Foe Believing that one of the boilers had exploded, fears were entertained that the whole body of stokers and engineers attending the paddle engines were killed. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships There's no such thing as a stoker any more, with automatic ships. The Stoker and the Stars He leaned up against one of those funnels which send fresh air down to the stokers of steam-ships. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan About nine o’clock each night he left us to look after the great Carron stove ourselves, and we were all pretty good stokers. The Big Otter We are just a pair of stokers on a transport. Shelled by an Unseen Foe We remained there for three hours, to oil the engine, and to give the stoker, who had not quitted his post an instant since leaving Wexford, a little rest. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships I don't know what MacReidie may have told the skipper about the stoker, or if he tried to tell him anything. The Stoker and the Stars I’ll try to get Stumps smuggled aboard as a stoker or something, if possible, but to say truth, I don’t feel quite so sure about that matter,” replied Frank. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables “A mad dog,” answered the policeman.—“I say, stoker, have you any ashpit where I could bury him?” Post Haste With one or two exceptions, the remaining stokers were either Irishmen or Germans, the latter having an aptitude for becoming stokers and sugar bakers, avocations which require the power of enduring heat. The Three Admirals He accordingly offered his services, and obtained permission for himself and William Johnstone, a brave fellow, a stoker, to proceed on shore for the purpose of intercepting them. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign And the stoker had saved the ship, and ... The Stoker and the Stars “I’m thinking that we shall be glad to go down and visit the engine-room, and not be above turning stokers.” Steve Young “Couldn’t allow ’im burial in our ashpit,” replied the stoker, with a decided shake of the head; “altogether out of the question.” Post Haste Another was put up for the petty officers, the stokers had one for themselves, and the officers’ servants one. The Three Admirals The stoker develops the muscles of his arms and back, the engineer alertness of eye and ear. Civics and Health I think what kept anything from happening between MacReidie and the stoker, or anyone else and the stoker, was that it would have meant trouble in the ship. The Stoker and the Stars They seem, however, rather to enjoy it, and I suppose they get used to the heat, like stokers. 'That Very Mab' The policeman looked at the dead dog and at the stoker with a perplexed air. Post Haste The seamen and marines, engineers, and stokers, as well as the officers, laboured away with but short intervals for rest. The Three Admirals How the stokers stood it is a marvel to this day. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 The stoker was coming down on one of the cargo slings. The Stoker and the Stars Starboard watch forrad, port watch aft, and all the stokers and firemen amidships, under the bridge. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea It’s out o’ the way of our usual line of business, but—” “That’s right,” said the policeman, as the stoker, who was an obliging man, took up a great shovel and flung open the furnace-door. Post Haste One building there was called the grand hotel, and it was frequented by all ranks, from the warrant officers and sergeant of marines down to the stokers and ship’s boys. The Three Admirals He pushed over his regulator to its top notch, and started the weary stokers to the task of shovelling on coal with all possible dispatch. Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru The stoker nodded, and they walked over to his vehicle together. The Stoker and the Stars In a minute or two the stokers came up from below and close upon their heels, the engineer. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries He was very affable to the genial stoker, who was quite communicative about the boilers. Post Haste For a moment the big stoker's arm quivered to strike, then slowly fell. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The stoker of the mail, an old railway hand, had been bribed, together with the guard in whose compartment the bullion would travel. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The stoker came back to our ship that night, without his duffelbag. The Stoker and the Stars Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World, once acted as stoker on a Mississippi steamboat. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune “I don’t half like it,” said the stoker, glancing in; “the Postmaster-General might object, you know.” Post Haste Instantly Dan's left broke down the guard; his right fist landed squarely on the stoker's jaw, sending him reeling to the bunker wall, where he fell. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story He tossed the boy into the air, pinched Jane's cheek, and gave his morning salutation in several lusty thumps on the stoker's back. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. The stoker had already left on the Jek ship, and it turned out he'd trained an apprentice boy to take his place. The Stoker and the Stars They stay not in their hold These stokers, Stooping to hell To feed a ship. The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century He was accosted by a stalwart stoker, whose appearance and air were as genial as the atmosphere of his apartment. Post Haste |
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