Denwood Long, a troubled slave catcher and eastern shore waterman, is coaxed out of retirement to break "The Code" and track down Liz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song Yet Sung: Summary and book reviews of Song Yet Sung by James McBride.] Reference

When this was obtained, he would call a waterman, throw him a crown, and tell him to get out of his wherry as fast as he could.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob Faithful] Reference

"Then we had better go ourselves, Tom," said I, and we went forward to call the waterman, who was lying on his oars close to the frigate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob Faithful] Reference

"waterman" is labouring at the oar, rowing him across a river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832] Reference

"It's a 'eiress, I'll go bail," said the waterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference

Needle, they found a waterman and a boat in waiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Master of His Fate] Reference

I would have taken a wherry but no waterman came near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

He gave it me to pay the waterman and I hadn't the chance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

"You've been a waterman yourself, I shouldn't wonder," the broker said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

There's a waterman just shoving down his wherry as will put us off to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference

Any man who was a Binnenschiffer - an inland waterman - was called up too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Sea Lion]

He thought that he also had a glimpse of his waterman in the green jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

“A good lifeguard is a true waterman,” I said with a twinkle in my eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lifeguard]

Bill, in a sleepy sort of a v'ice, "Friend, thou'rt a waterman, I b'lieve?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference

A waterman had fished the dwarf out of the shrouded Thames just before dusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger in the Smoke]

"But he's a pensioner now, and works as a waterman up and down the harbour.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference

Rofflash and Jarvis have to be paid for their silence, but the waterman also.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Sheriff and waterman, they had worked together before this, and knew each other well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heretic's Apprentice]

The regular waterman hardly ever caught a glimpse of him -- he never showed himself by day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grell Mystery] Reference

The boat scraped the rushes and the waterman held it while the two men scrambled on to the bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

When he was gone, the waterman and the driver turned them over with careful hands and gloating eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference

KOCH: Chesapeake Bay waterman has seen their catch fall to less than half of what it was seven years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 27, 2001] Reference

I obeyed, leaving her to be supported by the two slaves; and, having paid the waterman, shut the back door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference

A waterman lounged here and there, but seeing the party was another's fare vouchsafed to them no further interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

The next mixers kept turning the material along and another waterman assisted in wetting it further down the board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

SIMS: Tonight, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, we ` re unveiling these beautiful waterman pen, and they ` re 44.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 22, 2006] Reference

The sisterhood, the maidens, flocking round the young waterman, and urging him along the stream of duty and of temperance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference

The commercial begins with a waterman pulling crab traps into a work boat and pans out to an aerial view of the tiny island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Va. watermen star in ESPN spot] Reference

As a youth he spent his leisure in "dancing and carolling," thus earning the familiar sobriquet of "the jolly young waterman.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

When he grew up they put him out apprentice to a waterman, with whom he served his time, and was afterwards a seaman in a man-of-war.    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

London to Edinburgh to visit his friend Taylor, the Thames waterman, commonly known as the Water Poet, who at that time was at Leith.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

The waterman placed his small mail-trunk on the stairs, observing that there were plenty of spare hands about, to carry it where he would.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference