Stamp's father was a stoker on the Thames boats and the family lived in the East End in near penury. |
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A serang is a person of importance, far above a stoker, though the stoker draws better pay. |
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Being a control freak, I leapt on as the steerer with Heather as the stoker. |
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My stoker was put on a charge of neglect of duties and was given the option of taking the base commander's punishment or a court martial. |
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He was a hard drinker and a staunch trade unionist who came to Australia as a stoker in 1910 and jumped ship. |
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His singing career started when he was working as a stoker in a glass factory in his hometown of Huzhou in neighbouring Zhejiang Province. |
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The victim of the gunshots was a stoker in a local brewery, an innocent working-class man, with a pregnant wife and six children. |
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The crew consisted of the stoker and driver, the guard and assistant guard, the shunter, the station master and the signalman. |
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A hydro-static lubricator in the cab supplies the booster and the stoker. |
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By 1866 Helen Bruce had been working in male dress since she was 17, as an errand boy, shop lad, ship's stoker, tallyman at a mine, and clerk. |
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I still say it takes guts to be a stoker, and it's not surprising that the stokers are even more clannish than the seamen. |
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One was of a stoker billeted in Collingwood Block who awoke one night to see his blanket held up at the end of his bed with no visible means of support! |
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He was a Navy stoker ready to board the fatal expedition, when a last minute order by his Captain to forgo the operation and remain ashore saved his life. |
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Yes, the prequel is called Uncle Charlie and I wrote it while we were negotiating the sale of stoker. |
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He was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920, and moved to Harlem where he worked variously as a stoker, an elevator operator, a laundryman and a ship painter. |
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Working in confined space at the far end of the boiler, this stoker wears cap goggles. |
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He served as a stoker on the Ark Royal but was given a dishonourable discharge after threatening to throw his commanding officer overboard. |
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It is then deposited into a hopper and chute above the furnace and released onto a charging grate or stoker. |
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He was working as a stoker on a Brazilian ship in 1922 when the ship on which he was working burned at the dock, stranding him in the United States. |
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To Anna, as she bathes her upturned face in the fog, the sea represents a chance of purification, a conviction that seems to be reinforced when a storm flings a soaking, bare-chested Irish stoker, Mat Burke, aboard. |
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Mr Arnold''s dad, leading stoker Walter Arnold, aged 27, was the last of four men to escape from the sub before the escape hatch jammed. |
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Chestnut and Pea are used in hand fired furnaces while the smaller Rice and Buckwheat are used in automatic stoker furnaces. |
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My hope with stoker was that the audience would invest in the characters. |
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You submitted the first draft of stoker under a pseudonym, Ted Foulke. |
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Perhaps Stoker shrewdly foresaw that he would need to leave open the door for an infinite number of sequels. |
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He worked as a First Class Stoker in the boiler room, switching to loading ammunition magazines when on action stations. |
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On to this Stoker pasted some new-fangled psychiatric theory, derived from the French alienist Charcot, one of Freud's main precursors. |
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Although Stoker managed to write a number of novels, he was not primarily an author by profession. |
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Stoker accepted a cup of black coffee and lowered himself into one of the armchairs. |
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At no time did Mr Stoker experience symptoms consistent with acute poisoning with organophosphates. |
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But early vampire myths were a far cry from the sleek, cloaked version Stoker described. |
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A more macabre inspiration surfaced in 1890 when an obscure author called Bram Stoker stayed at the seaside resort of Whitby. |
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The events contained in the book, Stoker deadpanned, were no act of imagination. |
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In 1901, Bram Stoker appended a new introduction to the Icelandic edition of Dracula, his most famous novel. |
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Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. |
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Decadently devilish looks are set to be paraded around Dublin next weekend as the Bram Stoker Festival 2014 is unearthed. |
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He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. |
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Stoker set two of his novels there, using Americans as characters, the most notable being Quincey Morris. |
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In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker travelled the world, although he never visited Eastern Europe, a setting for his most famous novel. |
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On 31 December 1879, Bram and Florence's only child was born, a son whom they christened Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. |
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Wilde was upset at Florence's decision, but Stoker later resumed the acquaintanceship, and after Wilde's fall visited him on the Continent. |
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Irving invited Stoker for dinner at the Shelbourne Hotel where he was staying, and they became friends. |
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Stoker was bedridden with an unknown illness until he started school at the age of seven, when he made a complete recovery. |
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And Stoker had no more visited Transylvania than Burroughs Africa. |
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Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. |
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An annual festival takes place in Dublin, the birthplace of Bram Stoker, in honour of his literary achievements. |
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On 8 November 2012, Stoker was honoured with a Google Doodle on Google's homepage commemorating his 165th birthday. |
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Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the film. |
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Florence Stoker eventually sued the filmmakers, and was represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors. |
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Stoker then spent several years researching European folklore and mythological stories of vampires. |
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Stoker visited the English coastal town of Whitby in 1890, and that visit is said to be part of the inspiration for Dracula. |
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It helps visitors explore the trail of Barghest, a mythical phantom black dog that Stoker heard about during his stay and then adapted for use in the Dracula novel. |
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Indeed, for Darwin as for Stoker, hirsuteness is an atavistic feature. |
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Bram Stoker set his 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm in a contemporary Mercia that may have been influenced by Hardy, whose secretary was a friend of Stoker's brother. |
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As well, some are convinced that the main character in the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker was modelled on Vlad III Dracula but there is no supporting evidence. |
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The short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories was published in 1914 by Stoker's widow, Florence Stoker, who was also his literary executrix. |
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The Stokers moved to London, where Stoker became acting manager and then business manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, London, a post he held for 27 years. |
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Working for Irving, the most famous actor of his time, and managing one of the most successful theatres in London made Stoker a notable if busy man. |
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