Laborers
[læbɔ:ərz]
Examples
- I then made a third machine, and would bring in yard men, ordinary laborers, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Compression pumps have eliminated this difficulty, and to-day fresh air is constantly pumped into the mines to supply the laborers there. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- At the end of the rainy season, early in May, the laborers return to their task. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- However, a number of the laborers usually remain in the huts, loafing and fighting the animals and insects that seek refuge from the rising waters. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Laborers can never pay rent to make it answer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The laborers and their families sleep in hammocks or on matting on the floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Just as the operator was bringing it across the shop unloaded, he saw two laborers ahead of him in altercation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Were found by some laborers insensible; the one from fear, the other from the blow given to him by his brother. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The farmer grew indignant, and protested that McCormick would ruin all his wheat, and the laborers began to jeer and joke at the machine’s expense. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is hard to imagine what sort of notions our farmers and laborers get from their teaching. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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