Laborer

Examples

• Darwin was moved by intense indignation at the slavery on the east coast and the cruel oppression of the laborer on the west coast. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• She makes them self-supporting, but gives the benefit of labor to the laborer. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We had a hand-laborer foreman--'Big Jim'--a very powerful Irishman, who could lift above half a ton. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The English laborer is not sold, traded, parted from his family, whipped. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The wages of a laborer are twenty to twenty-four cents a day, and those of a good mechanic about twice as much. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is not uncommon to find an outdoor laborer consuming one pound of beans per day, and taking meat only on high days and holidays. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• While he was there, my sister had been seen standing at the kitchen door, and had exchanged Good Night with a farm-laborer going home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He felt capable of furnishing the plans for the building, but thought it a hardship that he was compe lled to serve both as architect and laborer. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• 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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