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How To Use Bargee In A Sentence

  • By 1914 it was technically possible for a Danzig bargee to visit Bordeaux and the Black Sea with roughly equal facility.
  • Have these people never walked on a leafy tow path, admired the multi-coloured boats or acknowledged the cheery salutation from a bargee?
  • Tilda Swinton plays Ella, the terminally bored wife of a dour bargee called Les, in the film ‘Young Adam’.
  • Bellamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat. Burlesques
  • The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
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  • Bargee families live on the their boats and travel carrying cargo for a living.
  • We now play in The Ship at Lathom, known to the locals as the ‘Blood Tub’ due to violent and habitual fighting between bargees there in the late 19th Century.
  • As a youngster I was befriended by a bargee who for many years travelled to York from the ports of Hull and Goole with a variety of cargoes.
  • By 1914 it was technically possible for a Danzig bargee to visit Bordeaux and the Black Sea with roughly equal facility.
  • The bridge appears to have been built to appease a micro minority of day-tripping bargees who found the previous bridge too stiff to open.
  • But Davey's quiet life changes when he falls in love with the tactless but vulnerable Sarah, a Scottish bargee who stays with him in his lock-keeper's cottage.
  • Sammy was a retired bargee and local character.
  • The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
  • In the harbor of Manhattan, two bargees stirred sleepily last week.
  • Curiously, his terror had subsided when the bargee had spoken. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • One old bargee described the Institute as the happiest, blessedest little place in Brentford.
  • He used to lead the horses that drew the barges along the canal for the bargees from Dublin.
  • You don't mean that old shandrydan of a caravan that passed along there two or three days ago?" and bargee jerked his thumb in the direction of the hilly tract sloping up from the canal course, through which a narrow road, little better than a sheep track, wound its circuitous way. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
  • From walking so much along the river we knew many of the bargees.
  • Then he'd take out his bargee 's clasp knife and cut more bread into chunks. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Why Mr. Macguire was telling me of a bargee he knew who had a woman in pretty much every major town along his route!
  • This reluctance to accept the hassle of dealing with the drowned was not confined to bargees.
  • But Davey's quiet life changes when he falls in love with the tactless but vulnerable Sarah, a Scottish bargee who stays with him in his lock-keeper's cottage while her narrow-boat's broken propeller-shaft is repaired.

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