Labourer

Examples

• Far from that, Diana; his sole idea in proposing to me is to procure a fitting fellow-labourer in his Indian toils. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The labourer is rich or poor, is well or ill rewarded, in proportion to the real, not to the nominal price of his labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The big mill-house was deserted, save for a labourer and his wife who lived in the kitchen. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A journeyman blacksmith, though an artificer, seldom earns so much in twelve hours, as a collier, who is only a labourer, does in eight. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The labourer pointed out the direction, and added, Do you see that furze-cutter, ma'am, going up that footpath yond? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The retailer himself is the only productive labourer whom it immediately employs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The wages of labour are commonly computed by the quantity of silver which is paid to the labourer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As to myself, sir, the labourer is worthy of his hire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Plantation gangs began to oust the patch cultivation of the labourer-serf in the case of some staple products. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• No independent workman, it is evident, whether labourer or artificer, is likely to gain any new settlement, either by apprenticeship or by service. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In this state of things, the whole produce of labour does not always belong to the labourer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• With my diary, the poor labourer (who forgives Mr. Blake for insulting her) is worthy of her hire. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Jane, come with me to India: come as my helpmeet and fellow-labourer. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You say poor labourers cannot afford to buy bread at a high price, unless they had higher wages. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This war was more marked in England than elsewhere, because there more of the new machines were first introduced, and the number of labourers in those fields was the greatest. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the succeeding years of plenty, it was more difficult to get labourers and servants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The daily or weekly recompence which such labourers occasionally received from their masters, was evidently not the whole price of their labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The men-servants, who leave their masters, become independent labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We travelled at the time of the vintage, and heard the song of the labourers, as we glided down the stream. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Every year the demand for servants and labourers would, in all the different classes of employments, be less than it had been the year before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Land, however improved, will yield no revenue without a circulating capital, which maintains the labourers who cultivate and collect its produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He is eager, therefore, to collect labourers from all quarters, and to reward them with the most liberal wages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The demand for labourers, the funds destined for maintaining them increase, it seems, still faster than they can find labourers to employ. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The labourers in the village and the boys from the school, assembled on the lawn, caught up the cheering and echoed it back on us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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