You've sweated me all day like a stoker at your work; now go on and finish it up.
Then again the native stoker shouted a command, and a hot musketry fire was poured into the forest.
Your native stokerhas suspicions, but you say that he is trustworthy.
He trudged off to the hut, and there for a quarter of an hour he and the little black stoker were hard at work, feeling sure that the miners would meanwhile hold all secure.
When the black stoker looked again his master was gone, and with a sigh and a shiver of apprehension he sat down beside the lamp, and waited there in silence, for he and the Ashanti chief could not understand one another.
The native stoker grinned his delight as he turned to face his master.
It was marvellous to think that all this had been arranged by a little fellow from Sierra Leone, employed as thestoker and driver of a steam launch.
And yet this little stoker had a head on his shoulders, and had shown that he was deserving of much trust.
Who brought him no one knew, but in a day or two old Fletcher the stoker had adopted him as his own.
An old stoker brought 'em down; told me to hand 'em over to you, very carefully, and he brought this box too.
The old stoker took the medal and its clasps, pulled his gold spectacles out of their case from inside his "jumper", fixed them on his nose, and beamed when he read the inscriptions.
Sub answered grimly, and noticing that the picket-boat was forging ahead of the line, sung out to the stoker petty officer to "ease her".
Just then the stokehold hatch opened, the stoker drew himself out, and scrambled cautiously aft.
I'm as strong as a horse," the old stokerbroke in.
A chief stoker belonging to the Kennet came along presently, cut away his boot, and took it off (how it did pain!
You may be certain that the first time Fletcher the stoker went ashore, he took "Kaiser Bill" with him.
A stoker had risen silently as a seal for a breath of air, and stood, chest to the breeze, scanning the Fleet lights.
Face the intolerable white glare of the opened furnace doors; get into a bunker and see how they pass coal along and up and down; stand for five minutes with slice and 'devil' to such labour as the stoker endures for four hours.
So the Eunuch went out and laid about the people and trod in their tents, but found none awake, all being asleep for weariness, till he came to the Stoker and saw him sitting up, with his head uncovered.
Then the Stoker sold his goods and his wife's gear and bought a camel and hired an ass for Zau al-Makan; and they set out, and ceased not wayfaring for six days till they reached Damascus.
So the Stoker went to the bazar and fetched a donkey-boy, and he mounted Zau al-Makan on the ass and supported him in the saddle till they came to the bath.
Presently the Prince turned to the Stoker and finding him mourning, said to him, "Grieve not, for at this gate we must all go in.
Meanwhile, the Stoker went to the market and bought some rose-water and sugar, and sprinkled Zau al-Makan's face with the water and gave him to drink of the sherbet.
He reckoned on the enormous odds of the newly enlisted stoker being promptly drafted to a vessel in the North Sea.
He recognised the man as Leading Stoker Smith, the petty officer whose insistence had given him such a bad turn.
Without a word Stoker Jorkler relieved the luckless man at the steam winch.
In war time, with a heavy drain upon personnel the authorities had to be a trifle less particular as to whom they enlisted for temporary service, and amongst a batch of stoker recruits was Jorkler.
Stoker Jorkler's plot had succeeded, although not to the full extent that he had expected.
That fellow--I knew him in a minute in spite of his beard and moustache--was stoker on board the cruiser.
Lowering an electric inspection lamp into the compartment, the leading stoker made a perfunctory examination of Jorkler's legitimate handiwork.
On the following day the county coroner and twelve good men and true assembled, as the law directs, to inquire into the manner of Leading Stoker Smith's death.
Stoker Jorkler was one of her patrons, but Mother Taggach, in spite of her failings, was a strong anti-German.
Reluctantly Stoker Jorkler came to the conclusion that this was no time to go to his ditty-box.
At the first opportunity he would nip below and throw the object of discussion overboard rather than let the leading stoker see it.
Stoker James Jorkler, otherwise known as Rhino Jorkler, heard the order not without emotion.
Promptly the newly entered stoker was fired off to the R.
At this threat Jorkler started to his feet Fortunately for the leading stoker there were others still in the mess, otherwise---- Jorkler set his jaw tightly and followed his inquisitor on deck.
The absentee was reported under the name ofStoker Flanaghan.
But if no one was listening to the stoker some one was watching the exterior of the marine-store in Tunbridge Street.
If the subterranean stoker desired secrecy he had his wish, for there was no one in or near the place listening.
The stoker would be off watch, just now, and by all the rules of reason he ought to be out there on the forecastle, waiting for Bell to turn up and receive instructions.
The afternoon before, he had seen a stoker on the Almirante Gomez pick up a bit of rope and absently tie knots in it while he exchanged Rabelasian humor with his fellows.
On her deck yesterday afternoon he had shaken hands and parted with a friend, a stoker on board, and had seen some pitiful good-byes.
He remembered now that the girl's zeal for Mission work had cooled ever since she had been walking-out with her Dick--a young stoker in the Berenice.
The brasswork of the engine shines brilliantly, the footboard has been newly scrubbed, and the driver and stoker stand waiting for the signal.
In a moment we had shot out from the bank, and were alongside the steam-boat before the scared stoker knew we were there.
We ran out of the tide rip in a short time, and then the stoker began groaning again, so we bound his legs and arms with rope so that he should not jump overboard.
Like this the three disappeared round the corner, and the boat was left with no one but the stoker in her.
The only noise was the bubbling of the current, till suddenly the stoker in the bottom of the boat let fly a most piercing yell which echoed from side to side.
Carefully locking the door of his little gable bedroom, Alec Stoker put down the cup of hot water he carried, and peered into the mirror above his wash-stand.
He could not secure employment as a stoker earning wages, but after some persuasion the steamer's captain agreed to let him "work his passage" to Cairo.
It was Guilford Duncan's hope to secure a place on her as a stoker or coal passer, to take the place of some one of the deserters.
That last phrase was the result of his stoker experience.
Mr. Stoker then divested himself of some of his clothing and jumped in after him, and sustained the man until a boat came to them.
Direct observations and the analysis of gases at sections nearer the stoker than that at which the combustion is practically complete, will show how the process of combustion approaches its completion.
After all the desirable tests are made with the furnace as it stands, several kinds of mixing structures will be built successively back of the stoker and tried, one kind at a time, with a set of representative tests.
These sets of experiments will require a modification in the stoker mechanism, and, on that account, may be put off until all the other tests on the other selected typical coals are completed.
These tests show that the composition of the gases at the cross-sections near the stoker is not uniform, and that more than one sample must be taken from each cross-section.
The mixing caused by the air currents forced into the furnace at the stoker is very distinct, and can be readily observed through the peep-hole in the side wall of the Heine boiler, opposite the long combustion chamber.
A serang is a person of importance, far above a stoker, though the stoker draws better pay.
One glance told the stoker what the kind gentleman had overlooked.
Three years ago, when the Elsass-Lothringen steamer Saarbruck was coaling at Aden and the weather was very hot indeed, Nurkeed, the big fat Zanzibar stoker who fed the second right furnace thirty feet down in the hold, got leave to go ashore.
It caught the stokerfairly on the side of the jaw.
The first intimation the boys had that trouble was abroad was when a hulking stoker let fly a heavily booted foot at the little apple wagon.
This for the very simple reason that the stoker had gone down on his face in the mud.
You--you say the stoker there kicked the old woman's cart over?
This time the stoker did not regain his feet quite so soon.
Just as soon as he got over his bewilderment at having been so easily handled by a boy, the stoker got to his feet.
Growling, the stokerthrust two fingers of one hand into his mouth, trying to force the sticky mess out.
This time Mr. Stoker struck the mud puddle, again face downward, with a force that made the man fairly bury his face in the ooze.
And you remember how we quoted from the yarn and laughed over it, out there on the hillside while you and dear oldStoker panned and washed.
Only five years earlier Mark Twain, poor, and comparatively unknown, had been carrying water while Jim Gillis and Dick Stoker washed out the pans of dirt in search of the gold pocket which they did not find.
With a wave of his black hand the stokerresumed his way, while the boatswain, yawning, fell to casting his eyes about him.
Brain Stoker and Sir Henry Irving had each taken a small interest in the machine.
The grimy stokerwho had witnessed the struggle and the fall appeared in the door of the engine-room.
The stoker uttered a shout and ran toward the foot of the ladder, expecting to find Frank laying there, severely injured or killed.
There is a stoker on the "Lyonnesse" with a portly and majestic figure; but woe to the ill-bred passenger who tries to raise a laugh at his expense!
Once such a passenger saw the stoker looming across his field of vision, and, in spite of being curled up and woebegone with sea-sickness, he aimed at him a feeble joke.
The stoker stopped, and let his eye travel slowly over the speaker.
Aft, the grimy head of a stoker was thrust suddenly up through the deck, so to speak.
The impudent tranquillity of the man at once set Pent to rights and the stoker departed admiring the extraordinary coolness of his captain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
