29 examples of riggers in sentences

He was an old square rigger himself in the Civil War.

I use to be an old line Whig, and was a pooty active thimble-rigger as long as it paid.

The racer is incidentally useful, but essentially something to bet upon, as much as the thimble-rigger's "little joker."

With Proportional Representation with a single transferable vote (this specification is necessary, because there are also the inferior imitations of various election-riggers figuring as proportional representation), it is impossible to prevent the effective candidature of independent men of repute beside the official candidates.

"All right, Harry?" asked Joe of one of the riggers who had charge of putting up the platforms and the big swing.

mused Joe, as the rope rigger passed on.

A gang of riggers, stevedores, or lightermen work the vessel into the stream.

Thimble-riggers and three-card-monte-men do a brisk business and stand ready to fleece the guileless native or the unsuspecting foreigner.

Not a civilised Government in the world would dream of enforcing payment, any more than a magistrate would enforce a payment to some thimble-rigger returning from a race-meeting.

Large numbers of extra hands had been taken on at the dockyards, and the fitters and riggers labored night and day, hastening on the vessels just put into commission.

We turned down lanes, and went past gas-works, boat-builders' yards, and riggers' lofts, and presently Ham said, "Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!" I looked over the wilderness, and away at the sea, and away at the river, but no house could I make out.

A few hours later I was in the cabin of the Dawn, arranging some papers, when I heard a well-known voice, on deck, calling out to the stevedores and riggers, in a tone of authority"Come, bear a hand, and lay aft; off that forecastle; to this derrick,who ever saw a derrick standing before, after the hatches were battened down, in a first-class ship!a regular A. No. 1?

He is rigger, rower, swimmer, sailor, doctor, undertaker, And he's good at every one of 'em the same:

Then, the fastenings of the bowsprit" "Are good as ever came from the hand of rigger," said a voice behind them.

Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Charlie Rigger R.F.D., three miles, Palestine, Arkansas Age: 85 plus, doesn't know age

By our greed and wastefulness we give fortunes to bookmakers, market-riggers and money-lenders.

Square-riggers on schedule.

Square riggers before the wind.

WHEATLY, WILKINS W. Square riggers before the wind.

Delilah and the space rigger.

Square-riggers on schedule.

Square riggers before the wind.

WHEATLY, WILKINS W. Square riggers before the wind.

Delilah and the space rigger.

Imagine for a moment five million tons of shipping detained, thousands of seamen reduced to want, the trades of the ship-builder, joiner, rigger, and sail-maker stopped, the masses of produce now seeking the coast for shipment arrested on their way by the entire cessation of demand, the banker and insurer idle, the commissioners of bankruptcy, the sheriff, and the jailer busy.

29 examples of  riggers  in sentences