ROMANS: Look at the worst jobs, roustabout, which is for a worst job, it has the best name. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2010] Reference
Imagine an old oil field roustabout telling the story. From Wordnik.com. [Snarklings Wrestle the Snarkomter, bout 46] Reference
"Don't try to," advised the roustabout in a dreary way. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
"What can a roustabout understand about liberty horses?". From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
The roustabout with a nervous gasp vanished in the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
From management to roustabout there are common ties of interest. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
Bart stood for a moment or two queerly regarding the roustabout. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
"And there in Tarzak you live in secret with a roustabout named-". From Wordnik.com. [Elephant Song]
The matter was that the roustabout was crying softly like a baby. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
He was a roustabout, he herded sheep, he was a streetcar motorman. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2001] Reference
Nuclear Phyllis and the new roustabout skinny-dipping in the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
Divested of his disguise, no longer a fear-filled roustabout fugitive. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
Worked for Transocean for 10 years, working his way up from roustabout. From Wordnik.com. [The Key Players of the Deepwater Horizon] Reference
For the second year in a row, roustabout was CareerCast's lowest-rated job. From Wordnik.com. [The Best and Worst Jobs] Reference
The familiar cry of the ex-roustabout, Mr. Baker, rang out sharp and sudden. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
Why, I even worked as a roustabout (scutboy) at a gasoline plant for a summer. From Wordnik.com. [Once upon a time in the Oil Patch.] Reference
Bart was sure that his mysterious friend could be no other than the roustabout. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
The fortune teller handed the clown coppers, as did the roustabout named Painter. From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
Why don't you get a roustabout job on a freighter and learn something first-handed?. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Lens]
It was a "cursed well," Stephen Stone, the roustabout, told his wife over the phone. From Wordnik.com. [Black Water Rising] Reference
"You will travel with them, as I once did, as a roustabout, leaving tomorrow evening.". From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
And the roustabout throwing the rope from the perilous end of the dangling gang-plank!. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
The roustabout at the gate to Dirak said he was to deliver it to the fountain in Dcona. From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
Had he killed a roustabout in the back lot, he probably would have performed that night. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-24] Reference
He'd walked into the office to find her kicking the shins of a roustabout twice her size. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella At The Ball]
Anyway, a roustabout, yes, as I was saying, is someone who labors on an oil rigor pipeline. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2010] Reference
He's the foreman for one of the roustabout services working in the gas fields to the south. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Then he turned his back on music, dabbled in politics, and ended up working as a roustabout. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-Seven] Reference
The roustabout in the middle glanced at his companions, then walked toward the two travelers. From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
He threw out his arms wildly, groping to locate the speaker, whom he knew to be the roustabout. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
Fyx passed his left hand before Jagar's face and the roustabout dropped to the ground, twitching. From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
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