How To Use Bargee In A Sentence
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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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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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This reluctance to accept the hassle of dealing with the drowned was not confined to bargees.
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Why Mr. Macguire was telling me of a bargee he knew who had a woman in pretty much every major town along his route!
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Then he'd take out his bargee 's clasp knife and cut more bread into chunks.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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From walking so much along the river we knew many of the bargees.
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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
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He used to lead the horses that drew the barges along the canal for the bargees from Dublin.
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One old bargee described the Institute as the happiest, blessedest little place in Brentford.
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Curiously, his terror had subsided when the bargee had spoken.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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In the harbor of Manhattan, two bargees stirred sleepily last week.
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By 1914 it was technically possible for a Danzig bargee to visit Bordeaux and the Black Sea with roughly equal facility.
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Sammy was a retired bargee and local character.
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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.
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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.
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By 1914 it was technically possible for a Danzig bargee to visit Bordeaux and the Black Sea with roughly equal facility.
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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.
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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.
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Bargee families live on the their boats and travel carrying cargo for a living.
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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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Bellamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat.
Burlesques
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Tilda Swinton plays Ella, the terminally bored wife of a dour bargee called Les, in the film ‘Young Adam’.
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Have these people never walked on a leafy tow path, admired the multi-coloured boats or acknowledged the cheery salutation from a bargee?
