Thesaurus / navvy
FEEDBACKsynonyms for navvy
synonyms for navvy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use navvy in a sentence
You have worked him like a navvy, and never given him enough pocket money to keep him in tobacco even.
THE PIONEERSKATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARDIt is not the clodhopper, the navvy or the labourer, the careless or the incompetent, who suffer from them.
NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS AND HOW TO AVOID THEMCHARLES DAVID MUSGROVEMost persons from the navvy to the king feel tired when their days work is finished, but this does not worry them.
NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS AND HOW TO AVOID THEMCHARLES DAVID MUSGROVEJim sat on his horse and Navvy appeared riding up to the hollow, leading the saddle horses.
TALES OF LONELY TRAILSZANE GREYJim, who always wanted Navvy to be a dead Indian, looked profoundly sorry.
TALES OF LONELY TRAILSZANE GREYWhen Navvy did not rise we began to fear he had been seriously hurt, perhaps killed, and we ran to where he lay.
TALES OF LONELY TRAILSZANE GREYBut for a while, what with the roar and swell of the wind and Navvy's snores, I could hear it only at long intervals.
TALES OF LONELY TRAILSZANE GREYEven the ladies, regardless of blisters and the snowy whiteness of their hands, revelled in the role of navvy.
THE SIEGE OF KIMBERLEYT. PHELANIf he saw a man in a fit in the street, the navvy would be one of the last to suspect that man of being a fraud.
BEGGARSW. H. (WILLIAM HENRY) DAVIESAnd yet this navvy spends his life in a lodging-house, where these cunning mortals live.
BEGGARSW. H. (WILLIAM HENRY) DAVIESWORDS RELATED TO NAVVY
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.