The old navvy wiped the sweat from his brow as the steam shovel dug deeper into the canal bed.

He went down to the riverbank to navvy on the new canal, joining the other workers at dawn.

I spent the summer navvying on a canal restoration project, learning to handle shovels and pickaxes.

He navvies on the railway site, hauling stones and breaking ground from dawn until dusk.

The navvies cleared rubble and laid track until the sun went down.

After the war, many men navvied on railway projects across the country.

The old navvie wiped sweat from his brow after a long day laying track.

The restored French navvy dug steadily through the clay as visitors watched at the open-air museum.

The museum's centerpiece is a restored steam navvy that once dug the harbor's channels.

The French navvies spent the summer reinforcing the old canal's embankments to prevent flooding.