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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And hard labour ... the railway navvies remembered by a rock band.
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Even today's less hungry navvies will surely object to this soon.
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Mr Beavis was a navvy , and his sons worked at the Bermondsey shunting yards of the railway.
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Mrs Chambers must think she was feeding a navvy !
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Sorting the linen, the towels, the sheets, the red handkerchiefs, such as the navvies use.
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The navvies and the bricklayers, masons and blacksmiths, would troop off to other masters.
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The farmer had taken his Bible beneath his arm and visited the navvies earlier in the week.
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When the farm chores ended each day, Seb would often make his way to the camp of the road-building navvies.