The longshoreman was a saucy yin to the Market Street's cheesy yang. From Wordnik.com. [The News Tribune Blogs] Reference
Here I paraphrase longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer, from whom I lifted the title for this article. From Wordnik.com. [Russell Bishop: You Can Never Get Enough Of What You Don't Really Want] Reference
(link) Lots of CGI to make Tom Cruise look more like a longshoreman, which is to say, a lot more like a fireplug. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: Some short thoughts on "War of the Worlds"] Reference
"Where did I learn it?" the longshoreman repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
I spied a longshoreman all dressed in white linen. From Wordnik.com. [The Ballad of Bloody Thursday] Reference
For the rest of his life he worked as a longshoreman. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
I worked in Alaska as a longshoreman before I got sick. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2009] Reference
One is Marco, dark and solid, a central-casting longshoreman. From Wordnik.com. [It's Miller Time] Reference
Arisman: My mother had the calloused hands of a longshoreman. From Wordnik.com. [Vickie Karp: Third Screen: Marshall Arisman on How to Look Around] Reference
These Negroes got what white-longshoreman thievery left over. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
All people saw was just another longshoreman on Hoboken's waterfront. From Wordnik.com. [Marlon Brando: The King Who Would Be Man] Reference
The 'longshoreman leaped over the side of the ship and landed on the dock. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
The 'longshoreman started down the gangplank which was about to be hauled in. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
He was very lonely because his mother had married a longshoreman named Jason. From Wordnik.com. [Sugarexplosion] Reference
He was in the lobby, wearing waders and looking like a displaced longshoreman. From Wordnik.com. [partygirl Diary Entry] Reference
The son of a Brooklyn, N. Y longshoreman, he is blue collar through and through. From Wordnik.com. [One Time Rights] Reference
I, of course, remind her of this incident every time she calls me a longshoreman. From Wordnik.com. [bettyalready Diary Entry] Reference
That's a hard sell in Washington and among longshoreman at the Port of New Jersey. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2006] Reference
His sartorial appearance outclassed that of any longshoreman she had ever imagined. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
The pilot, the fisherman and the longshoreman were notorious offenders in this respect. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
Fred scowled, looking more like a longshoreman than the interior designer he really was. From Wordnik.com. [Lauren]
The book chronicles his life among fruit tramps then eventually becoming a longshoreman. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
"If you're goin 't' pay me, your honor, you'll have t 'hustle," advised the 'longshoreman. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
When a longshoreman is able to keep more of his own money, his family has more money to spend. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2002] Reference
"I'm not going to, sir," and the 'longshoreman attempted to touch his hat as a mark of respect. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
It was a burly longshoreman returning to his cottage, no doubt, from some late revel in a tavern. From Wordnik.com. [Wings in the Night]
All about me were veterans of eighty, ay, and ninety! hale and garrulous as any longshoreman needs be. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
Well it's not easy seeing how she can hold her liquor like an Irish longshoreman ... as far as I know. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Wins North Carolina, Networks Project] Reference
Her husband was a longshoreman and earned twelve dollars a week for the support of the family of twelve. From Wordnik.com. [Home Missions in Action] Reference
The sailor and the train-hand, the longshoreman and the teamster, transport them to the industrial centres. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The man carried a valise in each hand, while behind him walked a 'longshoreman with a trunk on his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
I appointed the longshoreman union head, Ronald Robinson, to the National Labor Standards Board, an African-American. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2002] Reference
He was a lantern-jawed giant with the powerful frame of a longshoreman, and he laughed in pleasure as he collected his money. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
Like they said the lobbyists represent the longshoreman, and, you know, the AFL-CIO and the auto workers and the oil companies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2008] Reference
The longshoreman was indulging in a fit of temper, which he interpreted in a burst of language that shocked the lady passing by. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
His occupational career since then has been chiefly that of a steamboat and longshoreman laborer along the docks of New York City. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
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