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Usage examples of stevedore.

They have ahead of them a long winter of motoring about the country in all sorts of weather, wrangling with millers and stevedores, checking cargoes and costs, keeping the peace between the Belgians and the German authorities, observing the rules of the game toward everybody concerned, and above all, keeping neutral.

Ross cultivated a certain preciosity of speech as though he were anxious to negate the stevedore image.

All these ships were crewed by former stevedores, clerks, rackers, counters, tally-hands, sweepers, and managers.

There were three checks from the initial position to the line: once while the equipment was being stripped down, a second when the stationer stevedores took charge, and a third when it was ready to go over the line itself.

A gawky, familiar figure edged its way toward them through the gaudy press of market women and keelboat thugs, stevedores and flaneurs, and January recognized Esteban, followed closely by a tubby, pleasant-faced little gentleman wearing an overly elaborate lilac-striped cravat.

It is a lesson as hard to learn for the somewhat-well-to-do as it is for the humblest stevedore, or the most straight-laced schoolmarm.

Longshoremen and stevedores sprang aside with oaths of terror as the roaring sedan raced straight for the stringpiece at frightful speed.

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.

Cargo was an all-hands operation, as Sisu never permitted stevedores inside, even if it meant paying for featherbedding.

Five minutes later the ancient truck, the two packards, the jeep, and the last of the stevedores were gone and macdonald was busy supervising the placing of the battens on number four hold.

Now I know why the stevedores were so terrified when one of the crates almost slipped from its slings.

Men were moving on the foredeck, waiting to haul in the lines when the stevedores let them go.

Half the ships in port used human-powered winches to unload, or doubled-over stevedores, groaning as they dumped gunnysacks onto horse-drawn wagons.

The hoi polloi of jarvies or stevedores or whatever they were after a cursory examination turned their eyes apparently dissatisfied, away though one redbearded bibulous individual portion of whose hair was greyish, a sailor probably, still stared for some appreciable time before transferring his rapt attention to the floor.

His nose led him to a panetteria where stevedores were already buying hot ciabatta, before going on to a stall where a butcher was selling liver and tripe ragout from a steaming pot, at a copper a dip of the loaf.