Away puffs the nobleman and the steamer, and all the suffering coal-bargemen or the needy applicant gets for his manual labour, is a sight of the stern of either, and a tremulous sensation, caused by the swell of their passing power.
Servants in agriculture and bargemen shall serve by the whole year and not by day wages.
When the lord was there, bargemen were employed for his barge.
The stars were so bright that he could not sleep, and it amused him to make up a long story about the bargemen snoring by his side.
After passing through the lock one of the men came down to see him, and he was taken on deck, and in the calm of the evening Ulick came to look upon the bargemen as his good angels.
And it was not long before he was asking one of the bargemen if he would take him on board.
His pretty face and speech persuaded the bargemen to bring him back to the Shannon; it was decided to say nothing about him to the lock-keeper, and he was carried down to the cabin.
This demonstration from his shipmates was enough; the bargemen of the other men-of-war were satisfied; and those who but a few minutes before had been loud in their anger, were now equally vociferous in their praise.
The bargemen are seen holding up the lantern and enjoying the sight.
On the raised towing-path two bargemen lounge and smoke indifferently.
Everyone speculated in tulips, even bargemen and rag women and chimney sweeps.
Presently, Joe came back, saying that the man was gone, but that he, Joe, had left word at the Three Jolly Bargemen concerning the notes.
And the Jolly Bargemenmight take it as a compliment.
Joe caught up his hat again, and ran with them to the Jolly Bargemen to restore them to their owner.
There stood the man whom I had seen on the settle at the Three Jolly Bargemen on a Saturday night, and who had brought me down with his invisible gun!
The two bargemen bowed low in great emotion, and the whole bevy of little ones blew kisses to the beautiful lady in the black dress, whom the steamer was already bearing away.
Then, as in a flying vision, the poor bargemen saw the steamer move farther and farther away, a long plume of smoke waving behind it.
On the home station bargemen are scarcely known; it is only in warm climates where they abound.
On my return from Colombo last year the bargemen of the Company's pontons submitted a petition in which they complained that they had been obliged to make good the value of all the rice that had been lost above 1 per cent.
The petition mentioned here, submitted by the bargemen of the Company's pontons, stating that they have been made to pay all that had been lost on various cargoes of rice above one per cent.
The excuse of the said bargemen does not seem to carry much weight, but they are people who have served the Company for 30 or 40 years and have never been known to commit fraud.
Here and there I beheld the unhappy bargemen vainly struggling in the midst of the vortex.
The fishermen and bargemen say, "You are sure to get a breeze down by the Nore!
The venom rankling in the taunt is thus explained:--The landlord of the inn at Medmenham had received private information that certain bargemen meditated that night a foray on his larder.
There are particular places, which the yachtsmen and bargemen know well, where no possible force of the tide would tear the anchor out of the ground.
No plucky adventure or cunning trickery performed by bargemen from the Hudson to the Mississippi but seems to have been accredited by some one at some time to Mike Fink.
The same story is told of other bargemen in various portions of the Union but, whoever was guilty of the theft, it is typical of all so far as their attitude to the public is concerned.
Thus the early bargemen and flat-boat men who made down river trips returned largely on foot, until the era of steamboats.
No story in which the bargemen figured is too improbable to be narrated, nor can one determine what particular person is the hero of an incident which is in turn laid at the door of each distinguished member of the whole fraternity.
Between four and five thousand rupees were paid over as compensation for the boats; and fifty pounds were put aside to remunerate the bargemen for their share in the operations.
No story in which the bargemen figure is too improbable to be narrated, nor can one determine what particular person is the hero of an incident which is in turn laid at the door of each distinguished member of the whole fraternity.
The bargemen were a distinct class of people whose fearlessness of character, recklessness of habits and laxity of morals rendered them a marked people.
I saw the men on board of her getting the bargemen drunk.
He may be afraid the bargemen will make trouble for him, and may run down until he comes to the mouth of a creek or deep cove in which he can hold the Rambler until the tow passes by.
Some of these bargemen look as if they'd rested their minds so much that vegetables had grown on them," mused Starr, which made Miss Van Buren giggle; and somehow I was angry with her for finding wit in his small sallies.
All these lighter and bargemen whom we see have their living to get.
We therefore lifted him up, and carried him out of the wood to the margin of the bank, where the bargemen aided us in conveying him into the boat, which immediately put off.
There are, besides, two fishermen and four bargemen always at command.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bargemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
