rivermen

The rivermen were the biggest problem—they were always drinking and fighting and cutting one another up.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

The rivermen were the biggest problem—they were always drinking and fighting and cutting one another up.

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

The rivermen were the biggest problem — they were always drinking and fighting and cutting one another up.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

The rivermen were the biggest problem -- they were always drinking and fighting and cutting one another up.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

They were just finishing their food when they reached the docks, and then picked their way among the passengers and rivermen and stevedores and onlookers.

Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

“I said you had enough money that rivermen would kill you for it,” said Loaf.

Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

A couple of burly rivermen brushed them aside as they went in.

Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

He felt sluggish when he did not have that alertness about him, and he wondered if this ability to speed himself up in relation to the world might not be rather like ale to these rivermen—a way of making the world brighter and pleasanter.

Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

When they got home they bade good-bye to the rivermen, who did not stop the night, “Because why should we give you back, for food and ale, the very passage money you just gave to us?” said the captain of the boat.

Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

The river did all the work—even the rivermen aboard the boat had little enough to do.

Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010