fascine-men

Updated: May 14, 2025

To rear of these stand Walrave and assistants, silent, with their straw-rope; silent, then anon swift, and in whisper or almost by dumb-show, "Now, then!" After whom the diggers, fascine-men, workers, each in his kind, shall fall to, silently, and dig and work as for life.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12