A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.
1 The English navvy was found to be the first workman in the world.
2 You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys.
3 The navvy had not stirred, for he had seen nobody enter.
4 They came from the navvy shelter, and Tom could hear plainly every word.
5 They were navvy 's boots, and worth in England about 15 shillings.
6 He can doff them and work like a ' navvy ' when he sees reason.
7 I expect he is a navvy from over at-(therest is inaudible).
8 The Danish railways brought the British navvy again into comparison with his foreign rivals.
9 Thus there was profit of the affair, though the navvy sank out of sight.
10 A navvy saw the danger, the soldiers with drawn sabers.
11 She felt she had scored quite a victory when the navvy bought a copy.
12 Next day a navvy had returned to the railway works.
13 He worked harder than any navvy , and never felt fatigue.
14 Such is the navvy 's life at work and at rest.
15 Describing himself as a navvy , but now an ex-navvy, he is in his 50s.
16 Instead, he let that waterworks chief navvy fellow have her.
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