bargee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Suddenly one bargee shook his fist: "It's that lazy bum Walker," the bargee said, "now he's back!"
From Time Magazine Archive
"And this bargee has got the old un," said Tillotson, using the terms Glover had employed in his narrative.
From The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
He was a good Doctor and never quarreled with any one, not even with our Deputy Commissioner who had the manners of a bargee and the tact of a horse.
From Indian Tales by Kipling, Rudyard
If I had known, I should have guessed that that bargee was no other than Grégoire and we should not have wasted a whole night.
From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
Hard at work, stand hundreds of strong and bare armed women, who scrub and wring their linen, while they sing and reply to the banter of passing bargee or canotier.
From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Bolton, Charles E. (Charles Edward)
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