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1. Who’d ever think a stevedore could be a business tycoon in disguise”, Nick commented as he looked over at his son, with a thin smile
2. It made the stevedore proud to stand there with
3. Billy Turner was a big, red headed man with muscles to spare; he worked on the docks first as a Stevedore then as a manager
4. Mandy had hot Latin blood, a mouth like a stevedore, the patience of a gnat, and was one of the four non-voluntary members of the team
5. He went to work as a stevedore at nine shillings a day, loading and unloading the ships that came into the harbor
6. I had it from the stevedore who has been loading their cargo
7. ' Conventionalized dandy and stevedore costumes were made popular as early as the thirties by the clever cartoonist Gavarni and were seen at all masked balls
1. While the other stevedores were distracted, Edgar removed the locking cones from where the containers were to be clamped in place
2. It was that peculiar time of day when the denizens of the night swapped places with the day people; when the lamplighters, dung collectors and other sundry night-prowlers gave way to a far greater number of artisans, carters, hawkers, stevedores and other common folk going about their business, heading for the city’s numerous shops, markets and manufactories
3. Those suits were so hard to come by that their presence could only mean these men were legitimate union stevedores
4. Since Helen could handle attaching the containers to the cargo ship while Greg flew the shuttle and the stevedores would do the load, it was decided that Helen and Greg should make this run by themselves
5. The load went smoothly, although the stevedores expressed their disappointment that the two ladies had not returned
6. When they arrived at Triton, they found the usual stevedores
7. Sam acknowledged after reading the note and blew the stevedores a kiss
8. Stevedores immediately swarmed over the cargo ship efficiently unloading everything into nearby warehouses
9. Also, tell your damn stevedores to stop working to rule: we are at war, if they haven’t understood that yet
10. There were also no lighter service barges and only a few stevedores to help unload the ships waiting their turn at the wharf
11. That could be truly problematic if it happened while stopped in some port short of Turkey, when sailors and stevedores would be running around the ship to load and unload cargo, thus rendering any move by them risky
12. He learned that Banda and the other black stevedores received six shillings
13. The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the
14. The hoi polloi of jarvies or stevedores or whatever they were after a cursory examination turned their eyes apparently dissatisfied, away though one redbearded bibulous individual portion of whose hair was greyish, a sailor
15. Her father’s world was one of traders and stevedores, of war refugees in the public shelter of the Parish Café, of solitary men
16. The schooner from Riohacha had just arrived, and gangs of stevedores in water up to their waists lifted the passengers over the side and carried them to shore
17. One day, one of the genial drunks on the river docks embraced him with more enthusiasm than usual when he saw him leave the office, and then he removed Florentino Ariza’s hat, to the mocking laughter of the stevedores, and gave him a resounding kiss on the head
18. On ordinary days it was difficult to sleep there, with the shouts of the stevedores, and the noise of the cranes from the river harbor, and the enormous bellowing of the ships moored at the dock
1. After Sylvia’s mother had passed away, the insurance premium (all her father had to show for a lifetime of hard drinking and stevedoring) was destined for the corner liquor store if he were left to his own devices
