The stokers manfully plied their shovels: with the snow whirling, and the wind blowing half a gale, the vessel struck, several hundred yards from the beach.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
An officer, whom I will call David, and I first of all opened negotiations with a Greek to be allowed to take the place of the stokers on the Smyrna train.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
You see, we've got double engines and we travel under forced draught, with the stokers stripped to the waist and doing eight shifts a day.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough