My father used to be a quantity surveyor. From LearnThat.org.
It became clear that the surveyor was the main personality at a Scud launch. From Wordnik.com. [Bravo-Two-Zero]
Just had a "surveyor" come by and ask how we planned to vote on Prop 8. From Wordnik.com. [POLL: Prop 8 Losing 40-54% Of Likely Voters] Reference
"Palin spox: Targets on SarahPAC map were actually 'surveyor's symbols'". From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
The surveyor is a civil engineer. From Wordnik.com. [Opportunities in Engineering] Reference
"Sorry to disturb you, but be you a surveyor also?". From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Merritt was confirmed as surveyor on the 16th of December. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
His duties as surveyor took him into the outlying districts. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Patrick McNiff, an assistant surveyor attached to the Ordinance. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot] Reference
Bradish was chosen speaker, Orville L. Holley surveyor-general, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Sharpe, George H., holds office of surveyor of port of New York, iii. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Patrick Henry, commending him to the county surveyor, and intrusted by. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
The landowner is fond of Roux and sends him to become a surveyor and map maker. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives That Came Before You, The Lives That Never End] Reference
Aug. 15th, Pd. to Sweatman for beer at ye chusing of surveyor Decbr ye 26 5 0 1714. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Only Simeon DeWitt, who had been surveyor-general for forty years, was left undisturbed. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
The surveyor began at the mouth of the Klamath and worked his way toward the mining camp. From Wordnik.com. [Flash Wk 4: Cartography] Reference
At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a land-surveyor, with whom he served five years. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
It makes no difference to the king's men that Roux is a surveyor; he too must fill the quota. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives That Came Before You, The Lives That Never End] Reference
After his defeat and Grant's election, he became surveyor of the port of New York, a supporter of. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
He mastered trigonometry (for work as a surveyor), he read Blackstone on his own to become a lawyer. From Wordnik.com. [Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?] Reference
The surveyor walked further upstream to where the camp's houses had been and he looked for artifacts. From Wordnik.com. [Flash Wk 4: Cartography] Reference
Anyone can become a frog surveyor, provided they pass an online test to identify recorded frog calls. From Wordnik.com. [Is That the Croak of the Pickerel? Frog Census Is a Tad Uncertain] Reference
Some other surveyor would do the one below and there would be a break, but John would take hold again. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
My lord, said the surveyor, I pray you what will wee doe with the earth, which we digge out of the pit?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
Survey, “Country round Lincoln,” p. 161, now in the possession of Mr. Fox, land surveyor, of Coningby. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
CareData Reports, a surveyor based in New York City, breaks out ratings given by people in fair or poor health. From Wordnik.com. [The Numbers Racket] Reference
The 94-year-old woman, from Cheltenham, handed over £68,860 for work that a surveyor later costed at just £250. From Wordnik.com. [Conmen jailed for swindling woman, 94, out of £70,000 for work worth £250] Reference
In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
(Soundbite of bird surveyor) Mr. MEIBURG: Imagine the seagull with about an eight-foot wingspan and you're not far off. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Sounds Recorded from Far Afield] Reference
During this reading he was getting his bread and butter by the other employments -- store-keeping, postmaster, and surveyor. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
He received for this sixteen dollars per day for his services as surveyor; and Sutter paid all the hands engaged in the work. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
To Benjamin Banneker, the surveyor and astronomer, who was regarded by some as his friend, he addressed the following in 1791. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
That there might be no dispute about the line, he had a surveyor come out from the town to set stakes giving the dividing lines. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
Containing the necessary information to make any person of common capacity, a finished land surveyor without the aid of a teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
Chances are, you would have gotten to the next stage -- in part because you were the only lawyer, accountant or land surveyor in town. From Wordnik.com. [Traditional Advertising: Why Companies Need It] Reference
Map, where Andrew Ellicott had his office as surveyor, and where the three Commissioners met for their business has never been settled. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
He found his quarter-section in the unbroken forest, its boundary blazed on the trees by the surveyor, and all around him a wilderness. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
In September the king suggested the appointment of Sir William Bolton, the lord mayor, as surveyor-general for the re-building of the city. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
He cannot put his pig-pen, wagons, cart, wood or other things there, if the highway surveyor orders them away as obstructing public travel. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879] Reference
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