The stevedore worked long hours whenever a ship came into port. From LearnThat.org.
The stevedore was a much larger man, but George got the best of it. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
Nowadays, "stevedore" is essentially an archaicism; the men in the longshoremens union run those giant cranes and are paid very well. From Wordnik.com. [Detcord] Reference
"stevedore" system, which was slow and labor intensive (at both ends). From Wordnik.com. [Crocs, Costco and the Mindful Shopper] Reference
Even an illiterate stevedore could get this stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
He wears a tuxedo, but he's got the face of a stevedore. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: 'Eat Pray Love' Merchandise Gets 72 Hours On Home Shopping Network. Doesn't That Miss The Point?] Reference
Ltd. 's planned 2013 entry as a third domestic stevedore. From Wordnik.com. [Asciano Cuts $1 Billion From Asset Values] Reference
I was a stevedore for Mr. Alexander Sprunt for sixty years. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
I had it from the stevedore who has been loading their cargo. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]
All the stevedore crew were members of the Wildcat's own race. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
A stevedore by trade, Behera peered out and froze at the sight. From Wordnik.com. [Dark After The Storm] Reference
Mr Louw said a ship's stevedore had been struck on the head with. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Utopian speculation on earth outranges a stevedore or a member of. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
There was a fighting stevedore or timber-tower, I forget which, at. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
The talking buzzard cursed like a stevedore and flailed at the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spike]
Two of the men on his stevedore crew had fought at the Seven Towers. From Wordnik.com. [The Tower of Fear]
But maybe he inherited something else from our stevedore grandfather. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
He wound up sweating like a stevedore, and it wasn't very presidential. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008] Reference
I worked briefly as a stevedore at Port Newark when I was 19 years old. From Wordnik.com. [If it don't fit....] Reference
He's about five seven, stocky, trim and powerful, with arms like a stevedore. From Wordnik.com. [You Live Once]
He knocked over a stevedore, leapt over a chestnut merchant's impromptu stall. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
The daughter is quite as old looking as her mother; the son, a rough stevedore. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
The stevedore looked, sullen, but the old man was growing more and more furious. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
The stevedore, who was in work and well fed, had taunted him; hence the quarrel. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
Squire Richards, a black man as big as any stevedore, was as lithe as a panther. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
Standing, he looked even bigger, with thick sloping shoulders and stevedore arms. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
Eric Hoffer 1902 - 1983 was a self-educated stevedore who could tell it like it is. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Saturday night and a hefty young stevedore was drunk and was reeling about the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Man is the animal that knows the clarinet makes his living on the docks, a stevedore. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: The Music of Gratitude] Reference
She shoved back her sleeve, showing an arm as hard and brawny as that of a stevedore. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
The next moment the stevedore collapsed on my chest and flung his arms round my neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Police had been called to a disturbance involving a woman of ill repute and a stevedore. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of The Limehouse Golem] Reference
The other battalion was detailed after the surrender to do stevedore work at the commissary depot. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Disappointed, though not disheartened, he turned to the work of a stevedore, which he did for four months. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
He muttered like a stevedore but his big interest at the moment was food, not obnoxious chatter meant to get his owner crucified. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
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