"Don't say another word," exclaimed the lighterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference

QUELCH worked as a lighterman on a barge fourteen years for eighteen bob a-week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892] Reference

Their suspicions were fully confirmed therein by the lighterman who saw Billings and Wood throw the same into the dock, as before mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference

The Professor will also combat the erroneous impression derived from the dark ages of SHAKSPEARE's time, that the Moon, or the Man in it, -- probably a lime-lighterman, -- ought servilely to follow the movements, in order to throw light upon them, of the Principal Performer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 6, 1892] Reference

The lighterman repudiated this plan and retired aft, sulking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of London Murders]

He flicked the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand and grinned at the second lighterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of London Murders]

Captain Marryat in that fine old story "Jacob Faithful," in the early chapters of which we get diverting glimpses of life on board a Thames lighterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships] Reference

The stranger and the derelicts alike had disappeared into the fog: it would be madness to search for them, Captain Harvey swore, and cursed the lighterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of London Murders]

If a shipman shall have been originally a lighterman, none the less he shall remain permanently among those among whom it shall appear that his parents had been.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book for Ancient Church History] Reference

He is a lighterman on the Spree river, near sixty years old, bent, with a greyish-yellow beard that frames his head from ear to ear but leaves his weather-beaten face free.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I] Reference

Thames to rescue a half-drunken lighterman, and when the Humane Society had voted him their medal, he had accepted it only on condition that the presentation was private and kept out of the papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrious Prince] Reference

The Fatima, with a great deal of fussy ringing of bells and churning of the river, backed out of her position, sidled round the outer fringe of the turmoil, and pushed her way in backwards towards the quay-side, directed by the shouts of Tom Wild and the lighterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of London Murders]

The lighterman, Bob, whose job it had been to lash the mislaid barges close-hauled to the first pair, had, in his anxiety to bring to an end his uncomfortable vigil, neglected to secure the ropes as firmly as was needed; moreover, they were old ropes whose condition no one had seen fit to report.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of London Murders]

“Shouldn’t wonder if them was your two barges,” shouted up the lighterman who had joined them at Tilbury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of London Murders]

After all, if anyone turned up, he’d explain that he was looking for the lighterman, to see if the poor chap had come to any harm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of London Murders]

And as it was, just when they got haud of my arm to have me out of the fray, I got the lick that donnerit me from a left-handed lighterman.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

A fisherman; his boat had no cushion for a sitter, no paint, no inscription, no appliance beyond a rusty boathook and a coil of rope, and he could not be a waterman; his boat was too crazy and too small to take in cargo for delivery, and he could not be a lighterman or river-carrier; there was no clue to what he looked for, but he looked for something, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

And as it was, just when they got haud of my arm to have me out of the fray, I got the lick that donnerit me from a left - handed lighterman. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

O 'the honest lighterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I.] Reference

He was a lighterman, you know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Junk] Reference

Nero was a titanic lighterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

Her father's a lighterman at Kew Bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Secrets] Reference

He called out to a lighterman, named George.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference

Born in London, the son of a Thames lighterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers] Reference

A lighterman on the Seine rafts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction] Reference

ORRELL, J B, lighterman, foot of Market, r 4th, nr Hanover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haddock's Wilmington, N.C., Directory, and General Advertiser, Containing a General and Business Directory of the City, Historical Sketch, State, County, City Government, &c., &c.:] Reference

He had no net, hook, or line, and he could not be a fisherman; his boat had no cushion for a sitter, no paint, no inscription, no appliance beyond a rusty boathook and a coil of rope, and he could not be a waterman; his boat was too crazy and too small to take in cargo for delivery, and he could not be a lighterman or river-carrier; there was no clue to what he looked for, but he looked for something, with a most intent and searching gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference