Stokers

He departed a 'Seedee boy,' as they call the stokers; he returned the full-blooded Sultan of Zanzibar -- His ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The mechanic distrusts the machine which the traveller admires; and the officers of the army might be called the stokers of the Napoleonic engine, — if, indeed, they were not its fuel. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Going above, Dave called the stokers and engineers out from among the prisoners, told them that he intended to send them to their posts, and asked them if they would pledge themselves to obey all orders and bridge signals, and not attempt any treachery. ❋ Unknown (1895)

I lost two Chinks there, stokers the both of them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He saw the watch below of stokers and trimmers bobbing out of the forecastle doors like rabbits from a warren and making their way aft over the rusty deck to the mustering of the port doctor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

God, what an idiot I'd been-and that hitch Candy would be bedding one of the stokers on the Far West, no doubt. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

Deryn pulled the stokers, and the engines roared beneath them, but the ranging needle was slow to climb. ❋ Mr. Scott Westerfeld (2010)

Alek stepped inside and looked at the controls—a legion of unfamiliar dials and gauges, brake levers and engine stokers. ❋ Mr. Scott Westerfeld (2010)

The emotion-stokers of fear and anger are at it again, promulgating these emotions that manipulate the debate on health care reform. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And as the day advanced and the engine drivers and stokers refused to return to London, the pressure of the flight drove the people in an ever-thickening multitude away from the stations and along the northward-running roads. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

We believe even stokers and ERAs should be well informed. ❋ Alison (2009)

You can buy purpose-built "dummy" hoods they amke them for stokers on tandems, but they cost a lot. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Their disillusionment only deepened when, as a result of their gentle assaults on the status quo, they lost their journalism and teaching jobs and were forced to work as stokers and window cleaners. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The 80,000 soldiers and stokers were not enthusiastic about the bottom of the ocean. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They also were generally not allowed to return to their professions -- and most could work only loading goods on trucks, as stokers or in other menial jobs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Talking to a former Commander in the RN he mentioned that he knew stokers who use to say "Sometimes I will drink 16 pints, sometimes I will drink a lot". ❋ Unknown (2008)

When a cargo steamer can save 78 percent in fuel and gain 30 percent in cargo space by the adoption of internal combustion propulsion and practically get rid of stokers and engineers—it is obvious what a prodigious change is at our doors with oil! ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)