"Ye mooney-face!" he roared at the brakesman who, his day's work done, was lolling on the grass. ❋ Luke Allan (N/A)
Mitchell Robertson, who owned it, but who was then working on the train as a brakesman out of Calgary. ❋ R.G. MacBeth (N/A)
Of these men we have examples in Brindley, who was at first a labourer and afterwards a millwright; Telford was a stone-mason; Rennie a farmer's son apprenticed to a millwright; and George Stephenson was a brakesman at a colliery. ❋ Earl Of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair (N/A)
One brakesman, Alphonse by name, like a wise person, usually went about his own business on arrival at the Béthune Road ❋ W. C. C. Weetman (N/A)
"Jump on, ye loon!" he yelled to the brakesman standing by the open switch. ❋ Luke Allan (N/A)
As Torrance watched, the end car slowly glided back toward the trestle and, to the sharply extended arms of an overalled brakesman, came to a standstill with a few inches of the truck overhanging the gossamer structure. ❋ Luke Allan (N/A)
The brakesman entrusted with a rifle in that room paid no attention until a strong hand wrenched it from him. ❋ Luke Allan (N/A)
And some time after becoming naturalized, in one of his letters, he wrote that he was a brakesman on the Great Western R.R., (in Canada -- promoted from the U.G.R.R.,) the result of being under the protection of the ❋ William Still (N/A)
In the afternoon it was even stronger, and I had to go back on the sledge and act as guide and brakesman. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)
As the latter were narrow and the available framework, by which to hold on and steady oneself, rather limited, the office of brakesman promised to be one with acrobatic possibilities. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)
I had to go back in the sledge and act as guide and brakesman. ❋ Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans (1918)
"I have decided to do so, and I am asking you now for an h'engagement as brakesman." ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
Already the conductor has changed his glazed hat for an ordinary round Christie and you can hear the passengers calling him and the brakesman "Bill" and "Sam" as if they were all one family. ❋ Stephen Leacock (1906)
He was now brakesman of a hoisting engine, dividing his small leisure between his studies and his cobblery, for he added to his earnings by mending shoes. ❋ Joy, James Richard, 1863- (1902)
Beginning with his experience as a brakesman at Killingworth in 1803, he went on to state that he was appointed to take the entire charge of the steam engines in ❋ Joy, James Richard, 1863- (1902)
Thursday morning a brakesman on a freight train going out of Sikeston, ❋ Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1896)
Dr. and Mrs. Munro were the only occupants of the car next the locomotive, and were killed instantly, as were the brakesman and one other passenger. ❋ Unknown (1894)
And when I had asked the name of a river from the brakesman, and heard that it was called the Susquehanna, the beauty of the name seemed to be part and parcel of the beauty of the land. ❋ Unknown (1892)
She knew how Nick, as a little boy, had swept shops and found all sorts of odd jobs; how he had been errand boy, and district messenger in a uniform of which he had been proud because it made him feel "almost like a soldier"; how after his mother's death he had got his long-cherished wish to "go West," by working on the railway and eventually becoming a brakesman. ❋ Unknown (1889)
