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Meanings of english navvy in English

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Usage of english navvy in English
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The English navvy was found to be the first workman in the world.
Lectures and Essays
2
At length it passed two English navvies, who found themselves in Paris on their way from Spain.
Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
3
The nearest type which we can see now is I fancy, the English sailor, or the English navvy.
The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before...
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They could not even ballast as the English navvy does, continuously working at filling for the whole day.
Lectures and Essays
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One was a tiny, ragged, old bushman, four feet high; the other was an English navvy, in a dark blue blouse.
Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story
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Most were of stolid English navvy type, dirty uncouth men whose gross irregular features told of low birth and evil life.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
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They bluster at first: being (as I have said) much of the temper and habits, for good and evil, of English navvies.
The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before...
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