Jerry ... we have two "yardmen" that generally work around our place in Ajijic about 5 hours a week (or a total of 10 hours a week based on 2 men x 5 hours). ❋ Unknown (2006)
I never knew any black people who were not servants or yardmen. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)
The dark-skinned employees—maids retrieving the trash cans from the curb, yardmen with ear protectors clamped on their heads operating mowers and leaf blowers, hod carriers and framers constructing an extension on a house—were all foreigners, not the repressed and indigenous people Somerset Maugham and George Orwell and Graham Greene had described in their accounts of life inside dying European and British empires. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)
The Tallahassee White Citizens Council, the Klan for middle-class people, asked Governor Collins to declare a state of emergency: the main emergency being that maids and yardmen now had to be picked up by their employers. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)
Not a chance, it's 1950 all over again with college-educated stay-at-home moms, four kids in private school, a Mercedes SUV, a pompous 35-year Dad who never comes home except for his sons 'baseball games, maids, yardmen, the whole shebang. ❋ Johnson, Jamie (2008)
Once a family neighborhood where children played, Gulf Gate was home now to many older couples and widows, who kept their shades drawn and hired yardmen to mow their lawns and prune their glossy-leafed trees into round orbs that looked like green plastic. ❋ Ann Rule (2000)
Almost every white family employed one or more black women, men and children as farm hands, house servants, yardmen, gardeners and drivers. ❋ REYNOLDS PRICE (1988)
When I got into the backyard I saw the maid handing out ice cream to all these raggedy little colored kids that belonged to the yardmen around the neighborhood. ❋ James Lee Burke (1987)
As the yardmen walked away, thinking about their lunches, the coffee train moved slowly out of the yard and onto the main line. ❋ Westlake, Donald E. (1982)
Two little Class 13 shunting engines plied back and forth through the yard, finding the most serviceable of the remaining cars and lining them up on one track, where the yardmen hooked up the couplers and the hydraulic hoses for the brakes. ❋ Westlake, Donald E. (1982)
There were six locomotive engineers, six locomotive firemen, one master of transportation, forty-five conductors, a superintendent of tolls, nineteen collectors, one trainmaster, four train dispatchers, four yardmen, and five switchmen. ❋ David McCullough (1972)
The attention of the Interstate Commerce Commission has been called to the urgent need of Congressional legislation for the better protection of the lives and limbs of those engaged in operating the great interstate freight lines of the country, and especially of the yardmen and brakemen. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)
You've discharged several yardmen, and I want to tell you that a lot of the roughest of them are laying for you. ❋ John A. Hill (N/A)
Only a few yardmen were there to salute the colonel as he stepped from the ambulance. ❋ Oliver Remey (N/A)
It does not include the labor of operating the plant, nor watchmen, yardmen, pipemen, and electricians. ❋ James H. Brace (N/A)
Here, it is made to include the cost of the contractor's staff and roving laborers, such as pipemen, electricians, and yardmen, the cost of the plant and its operation, and all miscellaneous expenses, but does not include any contractor's profit, nor cost of materials entering permanent work. ❋ James H. Brace (N/A)
