Person who works house-to-house?

Usage examples of mover.

Right at the front was Didine, shaking her head, affronted at being relegated to the role of spectator, she who, when all was said and done, had been the prime mover in the affair.

The mixers and movers in the miniature factories used a phenomenon called dielectrophoresis to harness the small electrical charges generated by every living thing.

It was a dinner party I attended-along with such diverse and interesting Republican movers and shakers as George Will, Paul Gigot, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Trent Lott, Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol, Christine Whitman, and others-at the Huffington Mansion in Washington.

He had been a chief mover in the conspiracy, and the empress gave him a present of a hundred thousand roubles and an order to leave Russia immediately.

All their lives, the elder Pommers had been movers and shakers in the Presbyterian Church.

This was rejected by a majority of fifty-six against twenty-two, and the noble mover then made another motion, that Mr.

Americans as men prizing and setting the just value on that inestimable blessing, liberty, yet if he could once bring himself to believe that they entertained the most distant intentions of throwing off the legislative supremacy and great constitutional superintending power and control of the British legislature, he should be the very person himself who would be the first and most zealous mover for securing and enforcing that power by every possible exertion this country was capable of making.

Two hundred fifty meters down the tunnel the plasma streams converged on an oncoming mover vehicle similar to the one the recon Marines had seen the supply workers use.

Though she had already been well briefed on who would and would not be present, the seating arrangements, and which of the delegation were figureheads, and which were the real movers and shakers in Congress, her staff could not tell her what the attitude of the senators and congressmen would be at the time of the meeting.

An engineer from Bremen was the principal mover, and a few men from Norderney and Emden subscribed the capital.

Its microbiotic crew long reduced to nanometric motes, its strange, organic fabric tenuous, the minuscule remaining mass of the C-and-C produced little flash as all but its intricate and indestructible prime mover vaporized in the lower stratosphere.

But one fine day I learned that the mover of this telegraph was only a poor wretch, hired for twelve hundred francs a year, and employed all day, not in studying the heavens like an astronomer, or in gazing on the water like an angler, or even in enjoying the privilege of observing the country around him, but all his monotonous life was passed in watching his white-bellied, black-clawed fellow insect, four or five leagues distant from him.

If this Ninutra was the prime mover who had set the geas into action, then it must be her time and place and power that would bring the end into view.

The movers, after driving past the same dog on the same lawn three times, stopped and asked directions of a jogger.

Harvey hustled the movers inside and marched them up the two flights of stairs to the attic, which rose particularly steeply and sharply turned three treads down from the top, although there was an accommodating sheared-off angle of plaster wall worn smooth by two centuries of shoulders rubbing past.