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carman

(ˈkɑːmən)
n, pl -men
1. a man who drives a car or cart; carter
2. a man whose business is the transport of goods; haulier
3. US and Canadian a tram driver
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"Huh, thinks I, here's where I'm a real carman. Back platform for me, where I can pick up the fancy skirts.
They and the men generally spoke of me as 'the little gent', or 'the young Suffolker.' A certain man named Gregory, who was foreman of the packers, and another named Tipp, who was the carman, and wore a red jacket, used to address me sometimes as 'David': but I think it was mostly when we were very confidential, and when I had made some efforts to entertain them, over our work, with some results of the old readings; which were fast perishing out of my remembrance.
After Nathan Carman's boat, the Chicken Pox, sank, he survived for a week on a life raft, while his mother, Linda Carman, disappeared and has since been presumed dead.
It follows the purchase of the land earlier this year by charitable trust the Carman Family Foundation from developer Allan Water Developments, who had wished to build 50 houses on the site which links east Dunblane and the town centre.
WITH support from the Welsh Government's Business Wales service, Carman Yates launched Fusion (Cardigan) and has already created jobs in the local area Originally from Hong Kong, Ching Man Yates (or as everyone calls her - Carman) moved to west Wales after working in Cardiff for five years to set up her own Asian fusion restaurant.
Nathan Carman was considered a suspect in the fatal 2013 shooting of his grandfather, John Chakalos.
Synopsis: The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman's magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
Nashville, TN, August 25, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Pioneering Contemporary Christian Recording Artist, Carman returns to the stage once again after a life threatening battle with cancer.
The exhibition is the concept of Val Carman who was the first artist in residence at the In Flanders Fields Museum in 1999, and also worked in a commemorative residency in Passchendaele in Belgium, the scene of another major battle.
Carman, Charles H., Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus: Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture (Visual Culture in Early Modernity), Farnham, Ashgate, 2014; hardback; pp.