navvy

It was to take many years for the navvies to build this line.

Three hundred of the navvies' children attended the local schools.

The work paid well, and attracted many navvies to the area.

Across the sky it was difficult to tell navvies apart.

So meeting the Kings had been delayed until the navvy was dead.

The navvy didn't seem in all that much of a panic.

So long as the navvies cut off retreat to the east the victim was safe.

Even today's less hungry navvies will surely object to this soon.

Just the figure of the navvy making good speed downhill, heading right.

He had rolled a pretty fair distance and the navvy was on its side nearby.

Part of the reason for the early start was to help employ older navvies who were working on the southern section during the summer.

Now the group has helped pay for a bronze sculpture in memory of the navvies.

Quickly he fired a burst at the place where the navvy, still out of sight, would probably be.

He might come off the boat as a navvy or something, and you'd never spot him."

He would at times undertake contracts of little benefit to himself in order to provide work for his navvies.

There were possibly up to 2,300 navvies plus their families, with 400 horses brought in for the work.

The navvies will no be allowed inside the forest.

Also he saw in the background a group of gillies and navvies.

All this caution for a navvy would probably make him sheepish later.

Rounds kicked up turf, far wide and high of the navvy.

She had i'like an angel and talked like a navvy.

One hundred navvies were killed during the construction of the viaduct.

The navvies were often unmarried and spent large parts of their income on alcohol.

It left 14 workers (or "navvies") dead and three injured.

A man had been seen that morning by the navvies at the Red Burn.