The breech-loader has manifold advantages over the muzzle-loader in a wild country.
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The speed loader had six rounds ready to drop into the chamber.
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The second loader steps forward at a signal from the gun captain.
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Tail lashing with rage, the queen charged the loader a third time.
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Peter was already climbing into the heavy metal scoop of a loader.
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The government men were hauling a sodden docker from the polluted waters.
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The docker stared at him-washe going to sleep on his feet?
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Deer Janis, you got me the muney for the docker.
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In full work a docker at the old 7d.
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The man who had occupied this hole, one Dan Cullen, docker, was dying in hospital.
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He was built like a greyhound with the shoulders of a stevedore.
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For twenty years he had fought nothing bigger than a drunken stevedore.
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I had it from the stevedore, who has been loading their cargo.
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One third of the American stevedore force in Europe was Negro.
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Well, if this ain't fortunate. The stevedore's services were required for Mammy Easter.
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He heard the dockworker gasp and felt him clutch at his arm.
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Perhaps he'd been a dockworker in Miiska before the warehouse burned down.
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The suspect was named Mateo Judd, a dockworker with an unspectacular criminal record.
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A dockworker might reasonably show up to an impromptu meeting sweaty and disheveled.
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He knew he had been the target, not that dockworker.
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By the end of the week he was a transient lumper on a river steamboat.
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The best work, when he could get it, was being a lumper down on the wharves.
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Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout.
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Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef, and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner, and no supper.
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It depends on where you decide to make your divisions-whetheryou are a "lumper" or a "splitter," as they say in the biological world.
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She ate like a dockhand, leaning over the plate and taking big forkfuls.
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The poorest dockhand has a shirt!
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She swore like a dockhand as Cahal handed her down, and was rewarded by the amused crease of his eyes.
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We'll tell you what to say to convince others that you understand how a spacefolder works, as much as a dockhand needs to know.
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Fishermen and dockhands appeared on the bank beside me, forming a chain with a thick rope wound around their middles.
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One limb was small and boyish with manicured nails and the other was flat and scarred; a dockworker's hand.
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Belfast: Mr. McMullan describes scene on one of the harbour quays and introduces a Naval officer and a dockworker.
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The parents of these Abbey rebels included a printer, a dressmaker, a journalist, a grocer, a dockworker, and a midwife.
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The city's dockworker's union opposes putting the arena in SoDo, saying it would clog area roads and drive away shipping business.
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Melvin, a 250lb dockworker, emits a snore of 88 decibels, which is equivalent to the noise of a motorcycle being revved at full throttle.
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The sneaking dock-walloper, I'll take the starch out of him when we land!
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A beach-comber, a dock-walloper, if there ever was one.
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A dock-walloper's idea; eh?
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Well, among other things, I've been a dock-walloper, a beach-comber by force of circumstance, not above settling arguments with fists, or boots, or staves.
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The wise will cross to the other side of the street when this burly dock- walloper of a font comes galumphing into view.
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He got beaten every day, in fact, just like every other longshoreman.
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This was followed by a moment of silence, then a longshoreman's bellow.
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The pilot, the fisherman and the longshoreman were notorious offenders in this respect.
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For every housewife and every longshoreman and every Hindu nationalist and every teacher.
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Jane's language would have made Britney the longshoreman blush down to her boots.
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He is a longshoreman at the container port on Staten Island.
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Medium height, a little inclined to be stocky, strong as a longshoreman-that'sall.
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I look like an Easter Island sculpture of a longshoreman.
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The longshoreman grunted, rolled over, and continued to snore obliviously.
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Fifty were quite enough to make the whole Prom look like a longshoreman's ball.
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She plays Beatrice, the wife of Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone.
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In the early 1920s, Anastasia was sentenced to death for killing a fellow longshoreman.
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He even touched on his having been a longshoreman.
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Very well, sir, and once more the 'longshoreman made as if to touch his hat.
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His hands would have done credit to a longshoreman-fingersknotted and nearly twice the normal size.