Boatmen
[bəʊtmən]
Definition
(pl. ) of Boatman
Typist: Terrence
Examples
- I inquired about my aunt among the boatmen first, and received various answers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Colonel Berkeley on landing astonished the two boatmen by throwing them a five-pound note! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- No boat would then be hired for the purpose, and no boatmen; that would save at least a chance of suspicion, and any chance is worth saving. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Or, she may have had assistance from the boatmen, and the boatmen's wives and children. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- These are two Yarmouth boatmen--very kind, good people--who are relations of my nurse, and have come from Gravesend to see me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There was a large number of steamers lying at Cairo and a good many boatmen were staying in the town. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The boatmen are the awkwardest, the stupidest, and the most unscientific on earth, without question. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Terrence