How To Use Navvy In A Sentence
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Oh, I sleep like a baby, eat like a navvy, and in years have not enjoyed such physical well-being.
CHAPTER XLIV
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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My father was a navvy and then a clerk for Islington council.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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
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He can doff them and work like a 'navvy' when he sees reason.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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When the Bishop has been here long enough, he will realise that Bradford was built with non-Conformist money, the Irish navvy and an army of desperately poor Britons.
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But women are more interested in the other stuff: the swimming-pool blue eyes, the boxer's nose, the tight, tattooed body that reminds you of a cross between a navvy and a Russian ballet dancer.
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navvy," had just disposed of a supply of rugs and was wending his way homeward at the same time.
I Married a Ranger
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Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly modesty to desire to think; whose loathly talk, forced upon the hearing of a decent old woman opposite him, passed baboonish behaviour; so much so, that Skepsey civilly intervened; subsequently inviting him to leave the carriage and receive a lesson at the station they were nearing.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Social reformers believed that carefully designed settlements would curb many of these excesses, help to civilise the navvy and improve his work rate.
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He was a navvy and had been employed at the new railway which was in the course of construction between Sheffield and Rotherham.
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It was in the formation of this, the true beginning of railways, that the British "navvy" was called into being.
The Iron Horse
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From 1907 he lived in Paris, where after working as a porter on the Métro, a navvy, and a docker, he took a night job in a printing establishment so that he could paint during the day.
