Tremendous fighting and quarrelling ensued, red and angry faces, and 'bargee' language. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference
Once more the bargee was staring out of the window. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Bum]
“When shall we be able to leave?” the bargee asked. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Bum]
Soon bargee was wrapped in slumber, and the boy buried in a penny dreadful. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
A Thames bargee was knocked down by a taxi-cab at Kingston-on-Thames last week. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920] Reference
"Well, well!" exclaimed bargee, staring at the trio in open-mouthed astonishment. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
A Thames bargee has summoned a colleague for throwing a huge piece of coal at him. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04] Reference
He had been struck by the attitude of the bargee when he went on board near Juziers. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Bum]
I begin to feel almost like the James North who fought the bargee and took the gold medal. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
Tremendous fighting and quarrelling ensued, red and angry faces, and ‘bargee’ language. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
A Thames bargee is reported to have sworn at a policeman for eleven minutes without stopping. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919] Reference
And it seemed to me to mean something, so I asked the old bargee who was steering, and he told me. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
The pretty ladies don't have to wait long; but if a river bargee gets there before a lord, they must take him. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
The toll-keeper yet lingered within the office, so for his benefit bargee raised his voice as he said roughly. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
A parrot belonging to a bargee escaped near Atherstone in Warwickshire last week and has not yet been recaptured. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920] Reference
The Doc watched him coming without apparent curiosity, and when he noticed the bargee his attitude did not change. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Bum]
They had no youngsters with them then of any description, bargee was positive; just the man and woman by themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
"Look ee here," she said insinuatingly, sidling at the same time nearer to bargee, and speaking with her mouth close to his ear. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
At any rate, ever since he was the most popular boy at Eton, coolly jesting when they were for throwing a bargee into the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
A burly bargee in a mail jacket, with a bandolier of ivory-hilted knives round his hips, jumps on the dais, and they fell silent. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
Jill, be respectful, and don't talk like a bargee. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
It is not easy to see why a bargee should ever die. From Wordnik.com. [An Inland Voyage] Reference
An unpleasant bargee with a black moustache had said. From Wordnik.com. [Uneasy Money] Reference
Stinker is a bargee, but he was quite right to lam me. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton] Reference
Had subsequent events proved the bargee right or wrong?. From Wordnik.com. [Uneasy Money] Reference
"Citizen bargee," said I, with a salute, "do you want a man to-day?". From Wordnik.com. [Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798] Reference
"And this bargee has got the old un," said Tillotson, using the terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant] Reference
Commissioner, who had the manners of a bargee and the tact of a horse. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference
Then he began ordering the bargee to stop, while I kept ordering him to go on. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
"I should just think so," Peter said; "the bargee at Eton would be nothing to it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Buglers] Reference
Mme. de Joinville was dressed as a bargee and affected the manner of a street gamin. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference
He avowed himself to have been a bargee in the earth-plane -- should one say the water-plane?. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
Indeed this was the most intelligent Tchuktchi I ever met, although his language would have startled an English bargee. From Wordnik.com. [From Paris to New York by Land] Reference
Still, I was pretty busy at the time, and wasn't paying much attention to anything, except that long, thin bargee with the bowler. From Wordnik.com. [The White Feather] Reference
Stones and mud and dried branches, and here and there an old kettle or a tin pail with no bottom to it, that some bargee had chucked in. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
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