bargeman
bargee BrE

Still taking the appearance of the dead bargeman, he offers Tom a way out.

Now this is where my skill as a bargeman saved our lives.

He still appeared as the dead bargeman, pleased that Tom has finally used the dark.

Little did the bargeman know that he would be instrumental in bringing to justice the most hated woman of her time.

I quit being a bargeman for a moment and scanned the sky with a shepherd's eyes.

The man appeared to be a young bargeman.

The bargeman is just a tiny voice now and it is a small pleasure to know I will never see him again.

The bargeman he had bribed to crew him was eager for Cutter to leave.

The boy perched on its withers called a greeting, and the bargeman lifted a hand.

"Come down in a sky-ship, they did," said the bearded bargeman.

My years as a bargeman on the Kans helped assess this stretch of rapids.

The bargeman, lying stretched out beside the tiller, raised his hat to them.

We'll ply back and forth, having no more to do with real sailing than a bargeman on the Thames.

Cooper was a bargeman with a fearful reputation.

The bargeman towed it under the barge office.

Achilles thinks the crippled god sounds like a bored bargeman announcing stops along a river's way.

If she had been negotiating, the bargeman would have thrown in some local coin, and thanked them smartly for the bargain.

"I am Haskoon," said a bargeman, stepping to the sand.

The towns links with water transport survive today, through a bronze statue of a bargeman in the town centre.

He loved these allusions to river craft and the water, once describing himself approvingly as looking like a rough bargeman.

The bargeman hawks foully into the water.

I saw her bribe a bargeman to take her across that night and I did the same."

The bargeman gave up.

"My mother was a Frenchwoman, and my father an Essex bargeman," he said abruptly.

It is not easy to see why a bargee should ever die.

Then again, in dealing with the bargee himself there is often trouble.

The business tonight was no business of a bargee or a factory hand.

A detective goes undercover by taking a job as a bargee in order to prevent a woman's death.

The bargee was yelling something but he ignored it.

There was a minute cabin on the barge, no more than a place for the bargee to take shelter.

She swore at him with a string of oaths he would have expected from a bargee.

The bargee in the stern looked at the man in the water and threw his hands wide.

The bargee gave his inquisitor a look of contempt.

Sammy was a retired bargee and local character.

How could I pass up a chance of hiring the most beautiful bargee in the solar system?'

Bludgeon, the Bargee, something of a jester in the play, but also able to drive the action by saying what others cannot.

I am sure I would rather be a bargee than occupy any position under heaven that required attendance at an office.

Here I accosted at a venture a ruminative bargee.

"You watch your mouth, mister," said a brawny bargee.

A ragged fifteen-year-old boy, a seventeen-year-old girl, and an older bargee.

'You're one smart bargee, you know that?' he continued.

"In't nothing compared with the water," the bargee said, still with a smile.

He swung around to the bargee, although even as he did, he knew it was pointless.

The old man had been a bargee all his adult life, but he had never had any talent for friendship.

We think he's a bargee.

All those whispered tales of the headless bargee and the smiling smuggler came flooding back.

The second room was occupied by a prostitute and a bargee, who hurled lurid abuse at them as they withdrew.

"Might," said the bargee; old, of dubious gender.

"I'll take ye," the bargee offered suddenly.