navvies

Why, don't you know the navvies are the most ignorant young men in London?

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

-- This morning I traversed the haunts of the 'navvies' to give tracts to as many as I could.

Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York John Lyth

On the eve of feast days the streets were thronged with ragged fellows whom the townspeople called "navvies," and of whom they were afraid.

The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

But set either the House of Lords or the "Saturday Review" contributors upon a hand-to-hand fight against an equal number of "navvies" or

Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

They began their work in the spring of 1862, taking five thousand English "navvies" to America for the purpose.

The Petroleum Oil-Fields at Franklin, Pennsylvania 1864

The "navvies," though rough, seem not to have been unmanageable.

Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

This morning I traversed the haunts of the 'navvies' to give tracts to as many as I could.

Religion in Earnest Lyth, Mrs Mary 1861

Soon, as the news spread down the alley, rougher faces peered in at window and door, and great "navvies" and dock-labourers put out their hard fists for a rosebud with the shyness and delight of schoolboys.

Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860

A cargo of "navvies" came out to-day in the "Lady Alice Lambton."

Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol 1856

The English are also the best miners, the best tool-makers, the best instrument-makers, the best "navvies," the best ship-builders, the best spinners and weavers.

Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858