Laborer Sentence Examples

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  • The laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies his thoughts of the dross and earthiness which they have accumulated during the day.

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  • Although he spoke five languages, he did not know English and took a job as a general laborer, learning all he could about being a machinist.

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  • As the world grows richer, people will care more about how their food is made, how the animals are treated, whether the laborer who picked the food is paid a living wage.

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  • An ox goad was used by a farmer, or a farm laborer.

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  • It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer--that's how I regard him--but you want to cure him from love of him.

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  • In 1880 a laborer earning 25 krans, or LI sterling a month, could afford to keep a family; by 1908, in krans, he earned double what he did in 1880, but his wage, expressed in sterling, was the same, and wherever the prices of food have risen more than his wages he could not afford to keep a family.

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  • Later additions to the statute were devised to terrorize the laborer, by adding stripes and branding to his punishment, if he still remained recalcitrant or absconded.

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  • Furthermore, she is not a very diligent laborer; she likes to take her time.

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  • What, therefore, has the laborer to complain of in America?

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  • Ismail was a 30-year-old unemployed laborer and a native of British Somaliland.

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  • August 11 th 1863 William Lilley, laborer of Clare pleaded guilty to stealing a tin bottle from William Gosling of Clare.

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  • He could have been any ordinary laborer, she any ordinary housewife.

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  • The successful farmer must be a skilled laborer, no matter the amount of his manual work.

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  • How are we to generate work that does not demean the laborer?

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  • As usual, in their spare time, they lit bonfires, steamed themselves before them naked; smoked, picked out and baked sprouting rotten potatoes, told and listened to stories of Potemkin's and Suvorov's campaigns, or to legends of Alesha the Sly, or the priest's laborer Mikolka.

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  • Nevertheless the struggle turned gradually to the advantage of the laborer, and ended in the creation of the sturdy and prosperous farming yeomanry who were the strength of the realm for several centuries to come.

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  • The average user is strangely absent, like the laborer in eighteenth century landscape painting.

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  • For ringing the curfew bell for one year 1 10 0 Price of Provisions, and Laborer's Wages.

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  • He agreed to pay the laborers a penny for the day, which were evidently the regular wages for the ordinary laborer.

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  • The word may mean farm laborer, tenant farmer, or farm owner.

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  • The capitalist, the wage laborer, as well as the landowner, are commodity owners who are formally independent from each other.

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  • Jack was the laborer in the training school, he wore a navy blue boiler suit & supported West Brom.

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  • For a town or country laborer to practice thrift would be absolutely immoral.

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  • In order to support himself and pay his academic fees many a Japanese has to fall into the ranks of the physical laborer during a part of each day or night.

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  • The laborer's day ends with the going down of the sun, and he is then free to devote himself to his chosen pursuit, independent of his labor; but his employer, who speculates from month to month, has no respite from one end of the year to the other.

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  • The chief thing in his eyes was not the nitrogen in the soil, nor the oxygen in the air, nor manures, nor special plows, but that most important agent by which nitrogen, oxygen, manure, and plow were made effective-- the peasant laborer.

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  • Alternatively a boy could become an unskilled laborer which paid immediately higher wages.

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