Go ahead," he added, turning to the foreman with a sigh of reluctance.
The foreman whirled himself about, and began to give his orders; but the two editors still looked at each other doubtfully.
The compositors were standing idle in the composing-room, and their foreman was talking with the night editor.
Then the foreman rose and said: “May it please the Court, we do not find it necessary to retire, as our minds are already fully made up, and we are unanimously agreed as to the verdict.
A foreman of the locomotive works was to act as engineer, and Ben Watkins was to be fireman.
They crossed the yard and entered another part of the works; Giusippe gave the foreman a word of greeting as they went in.
At a station where quite a number of blacks were employed, one of the eldest of the women used to say to the foreman of the place: 'You are my son, I your moder, and I take care of you.
The foremanselected a bird and indicated to one of the men that he wanted it brought forward.
Before the foreman could explain what the supposed thing was intended for, he walked off with his nose very much in the air and never came near the telegraph line again, as far as we know.
In London, the old distinction between craftsmen and laborers was blurred by the existence of trades which employed workmen under a skilledforeman instead of journeymen who had served an apprenticeship.
Everyone had to work, steadily and without stopping, under the vigilant eye of a foreman who secured obedience by means of fines, physical means, or dismissals.
He could not help thinking that Big James had begun so promptly to call him `mister' because the foreman compositor expected that the son of the house would at once begin to take a share in the business.
At that day a foreman had to be equal to anything.
In a moment the foreman was explaining to Hilda, in his superb voice, the use of the composing-stick, and he accompanied the theory by a beautiful exposition of the practice; Edwin could stand aside and watch.
The preliminaries were over, and the foreman of the jury rose to give the verdict.
That is, Andy gave the treat, but his foreman was host; he never came himself.
She then informed me that the young man was no other than her husband, foreman of works to a builder, and that, to save the expense of a porter, he would himself carry my box.
We thought it well to have a strong friend, and therefore we brought the foreman of the Wide West to our cabin that night and revealed the great surprise to him.
The Wide West people also commanded their foreman to refuse any but their own operatives permission to enter the mine at any time or for any purpose.
Higbie said the foreman had been offered two hundred thousand dollars for his third of the mine.
The foreman had not been seen about the streets since the night we had located the mine--a telegram had called him to California on a matter of life and death, it was said.
Robert Stephenson used to tell a story of the clergyman of the parish waiting upon the foreman of one of the gangs to expostulate with him as to the shocking impropriety of his men working during Sunday.
Two minutes later the foreman came out, and George handed him the card.
He had a talk with the foreman and arranged about the wall with him.
I saw the foreman just now, and he tells me that a strong gang of carpenters will be put on, for both the floors are burned away at the end of the wall and pretty near twenty feet of the roof are charred.
A brother of mine who lodged and worked with me has just got a job as foreman down in the country.
The foreman of the yard at the time was William Gaddis.
William, is a printer, and at this writingforeman of the composing force of the Pittsburg Times.
So hot that the foreman from Charity Fork made continual odious reference to that historic locality over which Lazarus passed in the bosom of Abraham.
The foreman put down his pen very carefully, mopped his wet face with a great red cotton cloth, and strove to assume the gravity of his position.
The foreman nodded and spoke and the group separated a little, some of the men picking up long flexible "heaving-lines" coiled in neat rings on the cobble-stones.
A foreman pointed to seaward, and the younger officer followed his arm with his tired eyes.
The blasts sounded again, and he turned and looked at the foreman rigger behind him.
The foreman fumbled out his reply almost too eagerly.
The way the foreman had desisted from his murderous onslaught upon himself at her coming was sufficient evidence without the jealousy he had betrayed in his reference to tea-parties.
If there are many lines requiring extra time for rectifying the fact should be reported to the foreman or the compositor at fault.
When this is done the apprentice should ask the advice of his foremanor somebody familiar with the cases in his particular room, to be sure that his plan corresponds with the cases he will use.
The idea of modern industry is a child tending a machine that he cannot and must not understand, and a foreman who fines him if his attention flags for a moment.
Mr. Burton and the foreman of the ice-men measured the bluff so that they say the hole they are making is exactly over the middle of the chamber you are in, and if you walk around the edge the pieces may not fall on you.
The foreman of the ice-men examined everything, and said they must dig down to you from above.
If it's any consolation, the mill foreman will get full value out of you.
Though the incident was not of an unusual character, Jimmy sat down limply in the wet fern to recover breath, and he was still resting when the foreman came up and beckoned him.
One day, when Aynsley had been absent for more than a week, theforeman came to them.
Since he was not in view of the foreman where he stood on top of the bank, it was prudent to remain there.
The foreman gave ground, but stretched out his foot and Charnock, tripping over it, plunged forward and fell among the legs of the nearest men.
Moreover Charnock knew the foreman was Wilkinson's friend, and half suspected him of a share in the plot.
He refrained from asking how Charnock got the men, but was not surprised when the foreman arrived and inquired in forcible language what they were doing there.
While the foreman replied with coarse but rather meaningless abuse, Charnock's retorts had a definite aim and hit their mark.
The foreman retired, muttering, but not towards the bridge, and Festing looked hard at Charnock.
Then Charnock's meditations were rudely disturbed, for he heard a shout and saw the foreman had noted his cautious advance.
The foreman drove him out, and feeling very sore and stiff, he resumed work.
They crowded back, and as he got up awkwardly theforeman seized a heavy billet of cordwood and flung it at his head.
Time was important, and he thought the foreman had helped them to estimate the expense the company would incur by the delay before they could get new men.
It clashed upon the pick-handle, but Charnock got the next blow home and the foreman fell upon the table, on which Charnock pinned him down.
Then I was on the company's business and the foreman was about.
They did not move, and Charnock resumed: "Have you brought yourforeman or Wilkinson?
For a few moments he leaned on his shovel and gasped, but the pang moderated and he roused himself when the foreman looked his way.
The foreman reeled, but did not fall, and closed with Charnock, who could not get away because of the table.
The men came willingly, although Wilkinson and the foreman did not appear, and with the connivance of one Charnock obtained several of the company's blast-lamps.
Brocky Lane is foreman of a big cattle-ranch lying just beyond the mountains; he is also working with me and with Cutter, although until I've told you nobody knows it but ourselves and John Engle.
We don't want it known that he was anywhere but on Las Cruces Rancho; that he was doing anything but give his time to his duties as foreman there.
I was, I had served as his foreman on the float stage, at calking.
Finding the tide too high to permit of passing beneath the dock, he turned up among the buildings, where, to his surprise, he encountered his own day-foreman talking earnestly with a stranger.
He discovered the Kalvik River, built the first cannery here, and was its foreman until he quarrelled with Marsh, who proceeded to discipline him.
