Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharemen
Literary usage of Sharemen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1904)
"Their standard of life was frugal ; few comforts, fewer luxuries, rigid economy,
and hard work have brought many of them up from poor sharemen to owners of ..."
2. The History of Agriculture in Dane County, Wisconsin by Benjamin Horace Hibbard (1905)
"They could buy a small piece of land on time, or become "sharemen"79 and plant
some one else's land to tobacco, the landlord furnishing all the capital; ..."
3. Down to the Sea, Yarns from the Labrador by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1910)
"didn't know where us was ever goin' to see it from; and us had three sharemen
with us. But us come back, sir, in three months, and sold our catch for ..."
4. Down to the Sea, Yarns from the Labrador by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1910)
"didn't know where us was ever goin' to see it from; and us had three sharemen
with us. But us come back, sir, in three months, and sold our catch for ..."
5. Newfoundland: As it Was, and as it is in 1877 by Philip Tocque (1878)
"... they are therefore obliged" to go as sharemen,—that is, ... but, unlike the
sharemen of Conception Bay, the practice at Bonavista is for the ..."
6. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1855)
"... authority that it is the Determination of the leaders of the Insurgents to
get on as many half sharemen (so called) as possibly they can in the spring, ..."
7. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1902)
"... known as "sharemen," because they get a one-third share of the voyage, joyously
celebrate "settling day," when they are paid off with a goodly ..."
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