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Updated: July 11, 2025
Colliers, oilers, ammunition lighters and hospital ships were waiting in readiness to replenish bunkers and shell-rooms and to evacuate the wounded. All through the day, weary, grimy men, hollow-eyed from lack of sleep, laboured with a cheerful elation that not even weariness could extinguish.
It was her business to cruise along the coast from Block Island south to Delaware Breakwater, and watch for suspicious vessels. This duty made constant movement necessary, and unwearying vigilance on the part of the lookouts imperative. Rainy, foggy weather was the rule, and "oilers" and rubber boots the prevailing fashion in overclothing.
We get all that liner's coal passers, oilers, firemen, six deckhands and four quartermasters at the scale of wages prevailing in Hamburg. I know what it is in marks, but I haven't figured it out in dollars and cents, although whatever it is it's a scandal! It almost cuts our pay roll in half." "Do you speak German, captain?" Cappy queried excitedly. "I do not, sir more's the pity.
And, as the precedent held good in a lot of other rustlin' cases, Larry's death was really the beginnin' of law and order in the cattle business." We smoked. The last light suddenly showed red against the grimy window. Windy Bill arose and looked out the door. "Boys," said he, returning. "She's cleared off. We can get back to the ranch tomorrow." "Oilers" Greasers Mexicans. A cry awakened me.
In fact, it would be very easy to arrange on board the Vaterland that this should actually happen; that everybody should take a rest for a few minutes, coal-passers, water-tenders, oilers, engineers, and the people on deck.
Opposite Boughton's general store was another shop that made a specialty of fishermen's "oilers," boots, and overalls. Two houses to the westward of that was the old Schofield place, a low, white house surrounded by a rickety fence and covered with ivy. Once he reached the middle of the road Code saw that he had been mistaken in the location of the fire, for his mother's place was intact.
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