coal-carrier

No lists here between mailed knights for a lady's favour, but merely the trouncing of a chuckle-head for spitting on the deck of a coal-carrier.

CHAPTER XLV 2010

It may be nineteen-thirteen mutiny on a coal-carrier, with feeblings and imbeciles and criminals for mutineers; but at any rate mutiny it is, and at least in the number of deaths it is reminiscent of the old days.

CHAPTER XLIV 2010

I knew the rightness of the books, the relation of high thinking to high-conduct, the transmutation of midnight thought into action in the high place on the poop of a coal-carrier in the year nineteen-thirteen, my woman beside me, my ancestors behind me, my slant-eyed servitors under me, the beasts beneath me and beneath the heel of me.

CHAPTER XLIX 2010

These people would break bricks or carry coal, discarding their books like offal, should the scarcity of brick-breaker and coal-carrier transform those objects into gold.

On Being a Philosopher 2008

The merry men included the ice-carrier, the magnetician, the two wardens of the dogs, the snow-shoveller and coal-carrier and the storeman.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

It may be nineteen-thirteen mutiny on a coal-carrier, with feeblings and imbeciles and criminals for mutineers; but at any rate mutiny it is, and at least in the number of deaths it is reminiscent of the old days.

Chapter 44 1914

I knew the rightness of the books, the relation of high thinking to high - conduct, the transmutation of midnight thought into action in the high place on the poop of a coal-carrier in the year nineteen - thirteen, my woman beside me, my ancestors behind me, my slant-eyed servitors under me, the beasts beneath me and beneath the heel of me.

Chapter 49 1914

It may be nineteen-thirteen mutiny on a coal-carrier, with feeblings and imbeciles and criminals for mutineers; but at any rate mutiny it is, and at least in the number of deaths it is reminiscent of the old days.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

No lists here between mailed knights for a lady's favour, but merely the trouncing of a chuckle-head for spitting on the deck of a coal-carrier.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

I know that it is no more wrong or wicked for a horse to work for his living, -- of course on a humane basis, -- either on the stage or on the street, than it is for a coal-carrier, a foundryman, a farmer, a bookkeeper, a school teacher or a housewife to do the day's work.

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895