The negro roustabouts cast off the bow and stern hawsers from the wharf posts, and scrambled over the gunwale as the Robert Burns began to back out into the stream.
Negro roustabouts were hard at work hustling freight and baggage aboard.
The riot happened in one of the hill towns along the river, and was due to the ugly humor of the unpaid canvasmen and the roustabouts who went searching for trouble as an outlet for their feelings.
It won't be necessary for you to mingle with pickpockets and roustabouts and common ring performers.
If "No", the bell was struck and the boat backed off, while the woodman and roustabouts exchanged a blue-streaked volley of vituperation.
Thus it came about that the cabin crews on some boats, and the firemen on others, were colored, while the deck crews (roustabouts and stevedores) were white.
In old times the steamboat crews were comprised principally of white men--that is, deck hands and roustabouts (or stevedores).
The passengers who wanted to go ashore had gone, all but one, and the roustabouts were struggling with the freight under the inspiring influence of the mate’s energetic comments.
In spite of the interference of several officious roustabouts Sube succeeded in superintending the unloading of the blood-sweating behemoth's cage, and personally conducted it to the Fair Grounds.
Two or three roustabouts were lounging upon some rosin-barrels near by, under the spell of the round autumnal moon.
One of the roustabouts dropped quickly to the deck and held up his hand for silence.
Roustabouts and deck-hands were catching short rounds of sleep in their bunks back of the engine-room.
As the yawl touched the water, a score of roustabouts started to leap into it.
Gabe swallowed the abuse with a patient smile, but the two roustabouts muttered to themselves and eyed their employer with malevolence.
The saddling bell rang, and the jockeys trooped into the paddock, followed by the roustabouts with the tackle.
The roustabout dived, as the roustabouts always do, after the drowning, even at the risk of their good-for-nothing lives.
And the dangling roustabouts hanging like drops of water from it--dropping sometimes twenty feet to the land, and not infrequently into the river itself.
The trainman roared, which once more aroused the ire of the roustaboutswho were trying to sleep.
I expect the hungryroustabouts have about cleaned the place out by this time.
As the roustabouts jumped to lower the boats the men pressed forward, but the mate beat them back and got the crew to work.
Philip barely glanced away from the lusty roustaboutsworking the donkey engines.
Then he spoke of the hour of burial, and mentioned a somewhat early hour because some of the negroes wanted to ship as roustabouts on the up-river packet, which was due at any moment.
The Belle Julie had tied up at a small town on the western bank of the great river, and the ant procession of roustabouts was in motion, going laden up the swing-stage and returning empty by the foot-plank.
Down on the fore-deck the roustaboutswere singing.
Then the voices became subdued,--once a snatch of song, and again a burst of laughing banter between the roustabouts going up into the town and the deck-hands about to turn in on the boat.
Most other roustabouts had each a name of his own; so had the Carmi Chums for that matter, but the men themselves were never mentioned individually--always collectively.
Next to neighborly wonder as to the existence of the friendship between the Chums, roustabouts with whom the couple sailed concerned themselves most with the cause of the bond between them.
Now as you young men are stout fellows and pretty well used by this time to roughing it, he has agreed, if you choose, to take you instead of the roustabouts and deck hands ordinarily carried.
The stevedores and roustabouts of the waterfront made ballads of happenings as their forefathers had chants of the fierce adventures of their constant warfare.
The riot became general, the roustabouts heaving iron bars, pieces of wood, and anything they could find.
The roustabouts were just about to make the boat fast, when a party of armed horsemen dashed out of the woods and galloped toward the landing.
Already the steamer was backing away from the shore, dragging her gang-plank through the water; the negro roustabouts were too much terrified to pull it in.
Her hand behind her snapped a finger impatiently before the Negro girl gave her a white kerchief; then Faith was running, waving the cloth, expertly careless of ropes and tackle and the roustabouts who lurched out of her path.
The roustabouts brought a stench of cheap taverns, rum, tobacco, sweat.
Not the clodhoppers and roustabouts that come to see us," retorted Mabel.
Susan, trembling a little, so tense were her nerves, waited until the last struggling roustabouts were staggering on the boat, until the deep whistle sounded, warning of approaching departure.
Faintly up from below came the sound of quarrels over crap-shooting, of banjos and singing--from the roustabouts amusing themselves between landings.
Duna Szekeso is a calling-place for the Danube steamers, and this afternoon I have the opportunity of taking observations of a gang of Danubian roustabouts at their noontide meal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roustabouts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
