"Roustabout" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Roustabout," wild an' young, I co'ted my gal wid a mighty slick tongue. I t[o]l' her some oncommon lies dere an' den. I t[o]l' her dat we'd marry, but ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley
... years Francis Thompson led the life of a vagrant in the streets and alleys. He made one or two brave essays at regular work of the most commonplace character, but without success. The worn copies of Aeschylus and Blake in the pockets of this ragged and gaunt roustabout contained no useful hints for the difficulties of the peculiar situation; its harshness could be transmuted into temporary and blessed oblivion by a drug whenever the means for purchase could be ...
— The Hound of Heaven • Francis Thompson
... tears flowed. And then I dried them with a picture of the fat rewards that would be ours when the oppressor should be overthrown and the wise and generous Valdevia in his seat. Then Kearny leaped to his feet and wrung my hand with the strength of a roustabout. He was mine, he said, till the last minion of the hated despot was hurled from the highest peaks of ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... chauffeur-nurse and general roustabout that's taking care of your young gentleman up-stairs?" he ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
... take "Mac" for a mere roustabout, like most who go a'soldiering. But before long you'd begin to wonder where he got his rich and fluent vocabulary and his warehouse of information. Then you'd run across the fact that he had once finished a course in a middle-western university—and forgotten it. The schools had ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck
... gained the deck, and were passing around to the state-room (which was number 19), glancing back Charley saw a darky roustabout heaving the Jacobs trunk on his back, and starting with it for the gangplank. So it came aboard, but of its owner, if he was their Mr. Jacobs, there was ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin |
