It is pity, therefore, there are not commissioners for watermen, as there are for hackney coachmen; or that justices of the peace might not inflict bodily penalties on watermen thus offending.
It may be objected that the ballast men might do this; that as fast as the hills are taken away they would gather together again, or that the watermen might do it.
But while watermen are watermen's judges, I shall laugh at those who carry their complaints to the hall.
The usual plea in behalf of abusive watermen is, that they are drunk, ignorant, or poor; but will that satisfy the party aggrieved, or deter the offender from reoffending?
Nevertheless, every one of these gentlemen- watermen hopes it will last his time, and so they all cry, The devil take the hindmost.
I then to dinner, and then down the river to Greenwich, and the watermen would go no further.
He had no time for remarks, being placed in a boat with the pursuivant and two yeomen of the guard, and rowed up the river as fast as the arms of six stout watermen could pull against the tide.
It was very high, and all the watermen thought there was no fear of rain.
Because it was good for the watermen they were glad that the steamers came.
The watermen said that there must be a fall of snow inland.
It exists to-day as the Grapes, and continues to be the favoured resort of river watermen whose business keeps or brings them to the picturesque Reach.
Many boats were moored off the shore, with a couple of barges close at hand; and the watermen and oarsmen standing up in their craft, listened to what was going forward with much apparent amusement.
Many of these watermenwere old sailors, who had sailed and fought under Drake.
The river was smiling as she tripped gayly down to the water, and the red-coated watermen were smiling, too, and nudging one another.
The old watermen at the head of the Causeway, waiting to row people across to the Greenwich side, welcomed Crooks with a cheerful word as we approached.
The eldest of the ancient watermen would have it that this old boy from Yarmouth was the original of Mr. Peggotty, and that it was at Blackwall Dickens first made his acquaintance.
The two ancientwatermen soon overflowed with reminiscences.
After our return to England, as often as I happened to be on the Thames, I enquired of our watermen whether they were sensible of any difference in rowing over shallow or deep water.
In the time of the Rump, two Rump parliament men being in a boat, said one of them, You watermen are hypocrites; for you row one way and look another.
Mr. Congreve going up the water in a boat, one of the watermen told him, as they passed by Peterborough House, that that house had sunk a story.
Gentlemen, the interval of the night has made the advisers or manufacturers of this part of the case reflect upon it, and they have brought, instead of the two watermen from the river, the Irish ostler from Chelsea.
Among the State Papers are lists of watermen impressed and put on board the victualling ships.
Warren and I parted near his house and thence I walked quite over the fields home by light of linke, one of my watermen carrying it, and I reading by the light of it, it being a very fine, clear, dry night.
The room held about ten persons; the outward room about twelve men, besides the watermen for sixteen oars.
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.
In 1601 sympathisers with the watermen succeeded in getting a Bill passed in the House of Commons "to restrain the excessive and superfluous use of coaches.
A month or two later thewatermen presented to Charles I.
Two years or so after this the watermen sent still another {62}petition to the House of Commons.
At the same time, the Rulers of the Company of Watermen issued a notice, that the Stairs at Pepper Alley would be dangerous during the repairs; and that persons were requested to take water higher up the River.
I have, within these few days, as I was accidentally upon the river, informed myself of two watermen ignominiously dragged by force into the service to which they had voluntarily offered themselves a few days before.
Manie fled, and speciallie the watermen and preests and serving men, but the 'prentices were caught by the backs, and had to prison.
That watermen be allowed to coach and steer for these races.
That watermen be allowed to coach members of College boats in tub-pairs only till within a fortnight of the first day of the races.
What passes for good watermanship in an Eight is mere clumsiness in a sculling-boat, and, as a matter of fact, there are far fewer really good watermen than the casual observer imagines.
But he was followed by a crowd of young watermenand boys, who ran after him hooting, whistling, covering him with mud and other filth.
Hark to him," said Slimbroek to the crowd of watermen and townsfolk, "hark to him.
The reverend author, by blending the band and the watermen (who are also firemen), leaves it somewhat doubtful to which corps the duty of playing on the arrival of the visitors was confided.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watermen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
