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Example sentences for "bargee"

Lexicographically close words:
bargainings; bargains; bargayne; barge; barged; bargees; bargello; bargeman; bargemen; bargen
  1. Then I ran down to the boat with some pieces of the bed-covers [2] in my pouch, and bade the bargee start at once without delay.

  2. Then he began ordering the bargee to stop, while I kept ordering him to go on.

  3. On a preceding Sunday (at Erith), I did not meet one man, even a bargee who could not read, and all up the Seine only one in this predicament.

  4. All this “Social Science” of the sailor was far better done by the French bargee than in England.

  5. The man promised; but there was no need to have done so, for furious as Brogten was, he and his companions were too crestfallen to take any notice of the bargee in passing, except by contemptuous looks, which he returned with interest.

  6. Catharine moved away, but the bargee caught her round the waist.

  7. She thought suddenly of the bargee again, and reflected that the barge might still be moored where it was an hour ago.

  8. This noble bargee had never been seen to hurry himself on his own account.

  9. Rachel at once rushed off to her lord, whose barge–shaped frame was moored alongside of his wharf, dreaming as stolidly as none except a bargee can dream.

  10. Soon bargee was wrapped in slumber, and the boy buried in a penny dreadful.

  11. They had no youngsters with them then of any description, bargee was positive; just the man and woman by themselves.

  12. That was only two or three days back, when them kids belongin' to Dene o' Firgrove disappeared," explained bargee to the gaping loungers hanging about the wharf.

  13. Bargee was in the act of stepping on board when a man laid a hand on his arm, and a rough voice arrested his steps.

  14. Bargee looked curiously at the speaker, a great, ill-looking fellow, with coarse red hair and a crooked eye.

  15. The rays from a lamp, held aloft by a bargee or coal-heaver, flickered down on the green-grey features that had already lost the expression which accompanies the first beatitude of death.

  16. And so it would have done if the Bargee hadn't let go of Peter's ear--and caught her in his jerseyed arm.

  17. The Bargee Bill, whom the children had found so disagreeable, was considered excellent company by his mates.

  18. Had subsequent events proved the bargee right or wrong?

  19. An unpleasant bargee with a black moustache had said, 'This woman is not your wife!

  20. Bargee for the nonce I am, yet gentleman enough to understand a delicate situation.

  21. Bargee fell back with a howl, and gave vent to several curse-ory observations, and blank remarks.

  22. It was mentioned that the Parish of St. Thomas would be powerfully represented by its Bargee lodgers.

  23. The delighted Bargee was just on the point of putting the coup de grace to his attack, when, to Verdant's inexpressible delight and relief, his lumbering antagonist was sent sprawling by a well-directed blow on his right ear.

  24. Like the bargee of whom Stevenson wrote, there seems to be no reason why he should not live for ever.

  25. He knows how to learn, because he knows that the most casual comment from a bargee or a smacksman is charged with experience.

  26. The bargee turned so pale, that he looked like a collierʼs tablecloth.

  27. And it seemed to me to mean something, so I asked the old bargee who was steering, and he told me.

  28. I am sure I would rather be a bargee than occupy any position under heaven that required attendance at an office.

  29. It is not easy to see why a bargee should ever die.

  30. The good-humored one is a bargee on the Lyvern Canal.

  31. There was a cabin in that barge about as big as the locker where your ladyship keeps your jam and pickles, and in that locker the bargee lives, quite domestic, with his wife and mother and five children.

  32. The bargee stood with the water up to his waist.

  33. The bargee was taken wholly by surprise at such a novel assault, and stepped farther and farther back till Ah Lo, seeing his opportunity, clasped him by the waist and hurled him into the river.

  34. The bargee scowled at them as they passed him, but the specimen he had had of the Chinamanʼs strength deterred him from making any outward demonstration.

  35. Bargee is free, and the ashes of his pipe are worth a king's ransom.

  36. What such a waggoner might do on land, bargee does on the river.

  37. Our last upset was when that bargee canted us over at Eton, rather a different business that, Peter.

  38. I should just think so," Peter said; "the bargee at Eton would be nothing to it.

  39. He now rushed into the scrimmage with no idea of fighting, and a valiant bargee singled him out as an easy prey, and aimed a heavy blow at him.

  40. But he was not so fortunate in the second round, for the bargee knocked him down, but was happily knocked down in turn by the Putney Pet.

  41. Now write to Paul Bargee that his week has begun.

  42. And Friday morning Mr. Gilday called me down to his office and told me that Paul Bargee had done as I said he should do.

  43. Then Paul Bargee stood off, and I saw what was passing through his mind.

  44. The Bargee weighs a stone less and isn't nearly as strong, and yet he smashes Tony's collar-bone.

  45. The Bargee man who paced me from Stapleton.

  46. Also, I shrewdly conveyed to the Bargee the impression that I was at Rutton by special permission.

  47. These Bargee beasts are visitors, if you come to think of it.

  48. Welch, you remember the Bargee who scragged Tony?

  49. And now this Bargee man will go straight to the Old Man and run you in.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bargee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boatman; ferryman; gondolier; oar; oarsman; sculler; yachtsman