THE success of sanitation, and the modern facilities for storage of food, have greatly simplified the task of obtaining an adequate supply of navvies for the pick and spade work.
At first they relied almost entirely upon the West Indian negro, who formed the majority of the navvies employed under the French Companies.
The whole group of navvies gathered round him here with open eyes and strained ears, watching eagerly for what was coming.
A group ofnavvies waited for the relief party at the mouth of a tunnel.
The manners of the navvies were such that Sophia could not even regard them, nor Gerald Scales permit her to regard them, without blushing.
The Loop railway was being constructed at that period, and hundreds of navvies were at work on it between Bursley and Turnhill.
There seems thus to be no doubt that the Murhas of these Provinces are another offshoot of the Bind tribe like the Nunias, who have taken up the profession of navvies and earthworkers and thus become a separate caste.
Here they are navvies and masons, a calling which they have generally adopted since the Government monopoly has interfered with their proper business of salt-refining.
A Dravidian, caste ofnavvies and labourers found in Jubbulpore and the adjoining Districts, to the number of about 1500 persons.
A caste of masons and navvies of the Uriya country.
The experiment caused no little stir in Oxford, and even the London newspapers had their gibe at the "Amateur Navvies of Oxford"; to walk over to Hinksey and laugh at the diggers was a fashionable afternoon amusement.
One feature of the procession on that occasion was a number of navvies who happened to be working near the town and who walked in their clean white slops, or jackets, and of course came in for a goodly share of the pudding.
When those navvies that could be persuaded, or kicked up the ladder, had been disposed of, the sailors turned upon the timid ones and bundled them into the cask, neck and crop, four and five at a time.
The other Kafirs, of whom there was a large gang, were common fellows, who chanced to be going by the same steamer as navvies to work on the Western railways.
Meanwhile some of us had scrambled up the ladder, and a few of the Kafir navvies followed our example, but the most of them required a good deal of encouragement, and some strong persuasion, while others refused flatly to attempt it.
We cannot use the usual stock phrase of the penny-a-liner and say to 'trip it on the light fantastic toe,' for in several instances a pair of stalwart navvies might be seen in anything but dancing pumps kicking out most gloriously.
On the line, however, the navvies went doggedly digging on, despite atrocious weather.
The day dawned on which it was gleefully acclaimed that the directors had at length "caught the spirit of promptitude from the committee" and before long "it might be expected to see hundreds of navvies engaged in cutting up the earth.
When these few days are over, The navvies they will part, And go back to their gangers With blithe and cheerful heart; And Jack he will be hooting, And getting drunk full soon; I wish there was a railway To be opened every moon.
Here the two navvieswith whom he had made friends at the "Brown Cow" began to come.
There was an engineer taking the street level with a theodolite, and a gang of navvies with shovels digging like fury as if to dig out the back foundations of the hotel.
After that, he had taken a food contract for a gang of railroad navvies on the transcontinental.
Our soldiers are working like navvies with shovels and picks in their hands.
Who knows if our country will not soon be swarming again with a vermin of countless spies, crafty parasites, navvies working clandestinely at concrete platforms for German cannon under the very floors of our dwellings.
However, a man happened to see my movements and the canoe, and soon he called some dozen of his fellow navvies from their work to look at the navigator.
If, on the other hand, ill-advised or angry directors and engineers refused to pay, what could navvies do?
Soon after that, twonavvies were observed walking coolly and slowly on the line in front of the engine.
Our navvies now travel for next to nothing in luxurious ease at thirty miles an hour, and our very beggars scorn to walk when they can travel at one penny a mile.
If ill-advised or angry navvies were to refuse to work, what could directors and engineers do?
Reckless alike of their lives as of their earnings, the navvies worked hard and lived hard.
Tunnils sink and navvies drink, And chapels are upsetting; For Railway Shares nobody cares, And iverybody’s fretting.
The navvies of April have turned themselves into harvesters.
I cried, looking at her pure and bashful eyes, “do you mean to say that you are sent alone to a common public-house, where the navvies go?
Rumpus going on,” he said when he came back; “they makes more rumpus in that house, than a score of navvies over one red herring.
These yer Navvies ain't yore Buffalo-Bill Sioux," he pointed out to Luck.
I never come onto this dang res'vation yit, that I didn't have t' kill off a mess uhNavvies before I got offen it agin.
But when we think of the wild life of the miners and navvies in the ends of the earth—a life so wild that the C.
As far as what the navvies call the front, I had the benefit of the temporary railway by which Mr. Ross sends his labourers.
Gangs of navvies appeared, wending their way across the silent plain.
Long before the navvies came, for years in fact, the coming railway was talked about.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "navvies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
