How To Use navvy In A Sentence
- Oh, I sleep like a baby, eat like a navvy, and in years have not enjoyed such physical well-being. CHAPTER XLIV
- Sanitary Tom" (as the boys called the navvy who was his stout ally), had been at work laying bare the subterranean geography of our premises and making all right. Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth
- More recently coined words not normally used in formal prose are under no such inhibition: bovver, navvy, revving, skivvy are all written with double v.
- He had done a few days 'navvy work when he could get it, and he had run around the Domain in the early mornings to get his legs in shape. A PIECE OF STEAK
- He felt weak and sore, and the pain of his smashed knuckles warned him that, even if he could find a job at navvy work, it would be a week before he could grip a pick handle or a shovel. A PIECE OF STEAK
- I would like to whizz down but I keep getting my hair caught so I have to stop, swearing like a navvy as I disentangle it.
- He was good for nothing now except navvy work, and his broken nose and swollen ear were against him even in that. A PIECE OF STEAK
- My father was a navvy and then a clerk for Islington council. Times, Sunday Times
- It is a building where the homeless, bedless, penniless man, if he be lucky, may CASUALLY rest his weary bones, and then work like a navvy next day to pay for it. A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
- The navvy was a fine specimen of humanity, with a complexion tanned a dusky coffee colour. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton