"Railroad man" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... boys," and the mother spoke firmly. "Tavia must have her hair trimmed. I tried to get a hair-dresser to come out here, but we could not have it done until after the railroad man appraised it. So now the hair-dresser could not get here until after Sunday. That is why I am having recourse ...
— Dorothy Dale • Margaret Penrose
... to be a "railroad man." He starts in at the foot of the ladder; but is full of manly pluck and "wins out." Boys will be ...
— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield
... the threshold; I have looked into the Temple of Fame, but am not yet what I hope to be; but the truth is, I haven't written any books, as books, yet. It wounded me to say so, but truth is a jewel that I have resolved shall shine, like a railroad man's diamond, ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens
... possible conflict. "Handle thim, an' the likes av a thousand av thim! I know them aall, every waan av thim, an' their thricks. It's naht foolin' me they'll be. But, me b'y," he added instructively, "it's a fine job ye'll have runnin' down to the ahffice gettin' their time." (This is the railroad man's expression for money due, or wages.) "Ye'll have plenty av that to ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... salable value, its ships rot on mud-banks or at moldering wharves. The New England boy, whose ambition half a century ago was to ship on a whaler, with a boy's lay and a straight path to the quarter-deck, now goes into a city office, or makes for the West as a miner or a railroad man. The whale bids fair to become as extinct as the dodo, and the whaleman is already as ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot |
