What is "riverman"

Usage examples of "riverman".

Abner Marsh was too good a riverman to sleep away the day, especially a day as important as this one.

The old boisterous, cussing, free-spending, wild riverman who slapped you on the back, bought you drinks all night, and told you outrageous lies was a dying breed now.

Theiu had visited Base XII to watch Amarson fly the new dart launchers in combat, the Riverman had sprayed himself every minute or so.

The large brown eyes, and the webbed hand he raised in greeting marked him as a Riverman, but he was a full head and shoulders taller than Theiu.

Those course lines and the tall Riverman must mean that they had some way of getting there.

The ranging bar was a Riverman device to gauge his distance above the ground.

The turncoat riverman Pellan, who commands a fleet of flatboats carrying merchants to Trevista, will cooperate fully.

The riverman in the song at least had the hope of returning to his family and homeland, but for me there is no home, and those I loved are dead.

The monster climbed nimbly over the low rail, took the riverman in his talons, and snapped off his head with a single bite of his jaws.

At his hail the burly riverman crossed the deck to regard Sheftu warily.

There was a small papyrus boat bobbing against one of the ladders of the wharf, which Nuit had not deemed worth her notice until the scribe and the riverman dropped into it and paddled in silent haste out across the Nile.

There in plain view of a stout riverman, the boy pantomined that this was where Arakasi wished to be.

While the mob danced and went crazy before the corpse, a riverman sneaked in and saved the baby.

The riverman also said that through mist he heard Millard Dee Grubs, now old, and sounding like the croak of a frog.

Honorable Archibald Wickersham with true riverman thoroughness, which meant the infliction of the greatest possible damage in the least possible time.