Workmen

Examples

• The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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.
• We cannot give our workmen a monopoly in the foreign, as we have done in the home market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In many factories where phosphorus is used without great care workmen have been greatly affected thereby. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He applied to a Mr. Atherton, and the latter, although he considered the venture a hazardous one, sent him two workmen to help in building his first machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Many of these pioneer students and workmen became afterward large and successful contractors, or have filled positions of distinction as managers and superintendents of central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What a variety of labour, too, is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen! Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Through the window was seen the interior of a cathedral, undergoing partial repair, with the figures of two or three workmen resting from their labour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Now the bell had been ringing all the morning, as workmen, or servantsor _coiffeurs_, or _tailleuses_, went and came on their several errands. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In it is a marble chair which Helena used to sit in while she superintended her workmen when they were digging and delving for the True Cross. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is said that the Swiss watch passed through the hands of one hundred and thirty different workmen before it was put upon the market. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Oh, my friends and fellow-sufferers, and fellow-workmen, and fellow-men! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Though the workmen were now growing more weary and disheartened with each new volume they undertook, Gutenberg would not give up. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They even profit by his underselling the poorer workmen who deal in the same way with him. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Soon Faust discovered the same defect in the type that the workmen at Strasburg had discovered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At one time seventeen skilled workmen would manufacture five hundred dozen brooms per week. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And they chuckled inwardly at the idea of the workmen's discomfiture and defeat, in their attempt to alter one iota of what Thornton had decreed. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The sheets of paper are held on to the cylinders at their edges by means of tapes, and are so laid on by the workmen, that the type may be impressed on them with an equal margin all round. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I gave him no further information however, and he had no suspicion of how I expected to have the road cleared for his workmen. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A nonsense question in these times, when you know that every master has many good workmen to whom he cannot give full employment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This has a cutting board resembling that used by the hand workmen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Those workmen and their employers are properly the servants of the proprietors and cultivators. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Some workmen, indeed, when they can earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To-day their shops give employment to 3,800 workmen, which furnishes a significant object lesson as to the importance and growth of the industry. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We had an alehouse-boy, who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The workmen all stand on high benches, up from the floor, and under the hogs we find troughs to keep any scraps from getting under the workmen’s feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Palmer at that time commanded the 13th Illinois, which was acting as a guard to workmen who were engaged in rebuilding this bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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