(1) Someone who operates a barge
(1) Why Mr. Macguire was telling me of a bargee he knew who had a woman in pretty much every major town along his route!
(2) One old bargee described the Institute as the happiest, blessedest little place in Brentford.
(3) Have these people never walked on a leafy tow path, admired the multi-coloured boats or acknowledged the cheery salutation from a bargee ?
(4) As a youngster I was befriended by a bargee who for many years travelled to York from the ports of Hull and Goole with a variety of cargoes.
(5) Tilda Swinton plays Ella, the terminally bored wife of a dour bargee called Les, in the film u2018Young Adamu2019.
(6) But Davey's quiet life changes when he falls in love with the tactless but vulnerable Sarah, a Scottish bargee who stays with him in his lock-keeper's cottage.
(7) From walking so much along the river we knew many of the bargees .
(8) He used to lead the horses that drew the barges along the canal for the bargees from Dublin.
(9) We now play in The Ship at Lathom, known to the locals as the u2018Blood Tubu2019 due to violent and habitual fighting between bargees there in the late 19th Century.
(10) Bargee families live on the their boats and travel carrying cargo for a living.
(11) The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
(12) This reluctance to accept the hassle of dealing with the drowned was not confined to bargees .
(13) The bridge appears to have been built to appease a micro minority of day-tripping bargees who found the previous bridge too stiff to open.
(14) In the harbor of Manhattan, two bargees stirred sleepily last week.
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