roadmender

However, on August 15, in a thicket at the foot of a slope running down from the road that passes through the district of Millery, about ten miles from Lyons, a roadmender, attracted by a peculiar smell, discovered the remains of what appeared to be a human body.

A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

Railroad president and roadmender devote themselves to activities which satisfy the wants of their fellows.

International Finance Hartley Withers 1908

"Robert Louis Stevenson was a roadmender," said the wise parson.

The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885

I have attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker.

The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885

The sound carries me back, for it was the first to greet me when I rose to draw water and gather kindling in my roadmender days; and if I slip back another decade they survey me, reproving my laziness, from the foot of the narrow bed in my little attic overseas.

The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885

But the most grewsome story of the place is that of the Indian whose skull was found by a roadmender.

Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land 1879

I am no longer a roadmender; the stretch of white highway which leads to the end of the world will know me no more; the fields and hedgerows, grass and leaf stiff with the crisp rime of winter's breath, lie beyond my horizon; the ewes in the folding, their mysterious eyes quick with the consciousness of coming motherhood, answer another's voice and hand; while I lie here, not in the lonely companionship of my expectations, but where the shadow is bright with kindly faces and gentle hands, until one kinder and gentler still carries me down the stairway into the larger room.

The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885

He exchanged the time of day with the clerks hurrying to the railroad station; he did not disdain to ask the roadmender, seated on a pile of stones, how his labor was getting on, and where he would work next week; he leaned on the gate to listen as if enrapt to the groom and gardener of a neighbor of Clemenceau's, regretting that the hubbub of cracking guns and other ominous explosions was driving their master from home.

The Son of Clemenceau Alexandre Dumas fils 1859