What is "roadman"

Usage examples of "roadman".

From other childhood stories Sam believed that a roadman who did something very brave or brilliant was ordered there to help command, usually when he approached retirement time.

Red Roadman, that the crowd would cheerfully tear him into five uneven pieces and that they could do so without fearing penalty.

Tadee, a Red Roadman who usually rode guns with a younger man, but a good man on the guns.

A cloaked and red hatted Red Roadman standing in the middle of the road on the far side of the gate waved casually at Sam and held up his hand.

It was a roadman barracks, smaller than the one which had housed him during his tenure on the road, but still impressive in size.

Every senior Red Roadman with any brains at all knew that Central was a fairy tale to impress the young ones, the recruits.

Lionel was one of a plentiful breed in those days, a roadman who kept livestock as a sideline and hobby.

The roadman nodded abstractedly, and I could see that his mind was elsewhere.

The roadman looked slowly over the rows of new concrete pens with their sows and litters, and the pigs rooting happily among the straw in the yard.

So that was what I got from that simple roadman after he had seen his dream collapse and melt away no moaning, no complaints, only gratitude.

I thought this unexpected triumph would settle the roadman down for good as a pig keeper, but I was wrong again.

As the roadman walked back towards my car with me, I tapped his elbow.

The roadman was leaning against the upended dining table, and as he gazed in at his mixed charges, the smoke from his pipe rose high against the back-cloth of the hills The whole picture looked just right, and I smiled to myself.

Tresham also enjoyed occasional help from the wife of an ancient roadman who found his cottage lonely.

Maigret, having just finished his breakfast, was investigating the backyard of the hotel, which revealed nothing of particular interest, when he was informed that a roadman wished to speak to him.