coalheavers

Where sat the many legislators of coarse threats; of words and blows such as coalheavers deal upon each other, when they forget their breeding?

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Where sat the many legislators of coarse threats; of words and blows such as coalheavers deal upon each other, when they forget their breeding?

American Notes 1842

Where sat the many legislators of coarse threats; of words and blows such as coalheavers deal upon each other, when they forget their breeding?

American Notes Charles Dickens 1841

The two eating – house keepers exhibited joints of a magnitude, and puddings of a solidity, which coalheavers alone could appreciate; and the fruit – pie maker displayed on his well – scrubbed window – board large white compositions of flour and dripping, ornamented with pink stains, giving rich promise of the fruit within, which made their huge mouths water, as they lingered past.

Sketches by Boz 2007

Besides the hurried rush of those who with these varied objects in view leave the steamer, there are crowds of incomers in the shape of porters, visitors, and coalheavers, and passengers for the States, who prefer the comfort and known punctuality of the

The Englishwoman in America 2007

He liked to think he was consorting with all sorts of men — so he beheld coalheavers in their tap-rooms; boxers in their inn-parlours; honest citizens disporting in the suburbs or on the river; and he would have liked to hob and nob with celebrated pickpockets, or drink a pot of ale with a company of burglars and cracksmen, had chance afforded him an opportunity of making the acquaintance of this class of society.

The History of Pendennis 2006

But enough of the dress of these select "true-born Englishmen" -- for right glad I am to state that there are but _two_ Scotch coalheavers on the whole river, and _no_ Irish.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various

The brilliant Burgundy and sparkling Hock no longer mantle in our glass; but Barclay's beer -- nectar of gods and coalheavers -- mixed with hippocrene -- the Muses '"cold without" -- is at present our only beverage.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Various

I see myself emerging one evening from some of these arches, on a little publichouse close to the river, with an open space before it, where some coalheavers were dancing; to look at whom, I sat down upon a bench.

XI. I Begin Life on My Own Account, and Don’t Like It 1917

On we rushed through massive gates, where we ran serious risks of an overturn in meeting a string of heavily laden camels, with sonorous bell hanging to the neck; brightly and gaily dressed ladies passed and repassed in rickshaws; men on horseback, coalheavers, foreign women on bicycles, shining motor-cars, and glass-panelled, silk-upholstered carriages composed a moving picture, with the gates and huge enclosure of the forbidden city as background.

The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow Mildred Cable 1915