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
It was in the midst of a sore-hearted loneliness that I encountered Gavin, who, to the best of my belief, was the son of a bargee who worked on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
He believed, and he acted on his belief, that one moment of perfect bliss was worth an eternity of hell, He had that perfect moment, the lucky bargee!
From A Master of Deception by Marsh, Richard
Clearly here was some hideous blunder, and he perceived at length that the person addressing him in no way resembled a bargee.
From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
"You don't look nor talk like a bargee."
From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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