Labouring

Examples

• Because, whoever did, the labouring people did not. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Why, what had I to fear, I thought, when there was this nobility in the soul of a labouring man's daughter! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Hitherto they had been voiceless, wordless, needing all their breath for their hard-labouring efforts to break down the gates. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The harnesses of the farmer's and labouring man's horses a century ago, when they were fortunate enough to own horses, were of the crudest description. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If the labouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in the one part of the united kingdom, they must be in affluence in the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If she had been born a Queen Bee, and they labouring Bees, they could not have been more satisfied of that. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The farmer makes his profit by keeping the labouring cattle, and by parting with their maintenance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Chorus were excessively nervous, perhaps as labouring under the dreadful apprehension that some good thing was going to be diverted from them! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And lo, the Doctor, always our good friend, labouring at his Dictionary (somewhere about the letter D), and happy in his home and wife. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Not only his labouring servants, but his labouring cattle, are productive labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A labouring man opened it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This is the state of the greater part of the labouring poor in all countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We have a friend, father and I--a poor labouring man, but the best of friends--and I wrote out that I wished to do needlework, and gave his address. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If the labouring poor, therefore, could bring up their families then, they must be much more at their ease now. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Farmers and other labouring men went to bed poor and woke up rich. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Have you entered into my day-dreams, and beheld my brain labouring at its scheme of a future? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The scholars saw little or no change in their master's face, for it always wore its slowly labouring expression. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Labouring in this sea, as all barks labour in cross seas, he tossed about and came to no haven. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But none was made; and I became, at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The labouring poor would thus be enabled to live better, to work cheaper, and to send their goods cheaper to market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This increase in the demand for labour would both increase the numbers, and improve the circumstances of the labouring poor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The effort by which he does so is written in the anxious and labouring expression of his face. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It only seems yesterday when you were at your pot-hooks, labouring away absolutely with both hands at the pen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Raising his eyes thus one day, he was surprised to see a bonnet labouring up the step-ladder. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Labouring in vain, he must end in hating himself and his fruitless occupation? Plato. The Republic.

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