road mender

The road mender is here again.

Miraculously, he meets a road mender out on the moor, and swaps places with him, sending the workman home.

Up until now I had had hopes-fears, actually-that they would turn out to be more road menders, or honest laborers retired for a midday nap.

Inside it we heaped up apples, wood shavings, weeds picked up along the way or piles of pebbles left on the roadside by the road mender.

His stomach had been employed by a gang of road menders for brewing up a batch of hot tar; he could distinctly feel the bubbles swelling and popping.

The complex dominated Road Mender Balnoi, thus isolating one infantry battalion and its administrative base at Balnoi.

Sorry my comment caused you to reach for the hemlock Soccers old bean: - just one question - have you ever interviewed a road mender about digging holes?

In Brazil, young Sigmund adopted the name Pedro and worked odd jobs: dock worker, road mender, plantation labourer, and in 1895, cook for a British intelligence expedition.

Paul Johnson (1987) has pointed out that there is something wonderfully absurd about assuming that a retired 66-year-old millionaire is more 'dependent' in an economic sense than a 64-year-old employed road mender.

However, these details do not feature in the three eyewitness accounts quoted by Keith Jeffery (Reginald Dunne, a road mender, and the taxi driver who had just dropped Wilson off).

Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party" was luminous on one wall; I kept coming back to a van Gogh, "The Road Menders," and a grouping of Klees.

Galicia's economy of rye, maize, potatoes, chestnuts, cattle, and pigs was poor despised by other Spaniards as a region where women worked as farm-labourers, as railway porters, and road menders.

It is even, as I have noticed with a chastened smile, the sort that gravitates towards spare bedrooms, there to live a life of undisturbed tranquillity in company with The Road Mender, John lnglesa.

Francis left the local national school aged thirteen, and while he continued to educate himself, he worked at what work he could find, as farm hand, road mender and supervisor of roads, as copper miner (sacked for organising a strike having been a trade union activist since 1906) and shop assistant.