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Meanings of common laborer in English

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Usage of common laborer in English
1
I am strong, and might be a common laborer, but nothing more.
Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887
2
O'Hagan is travelling from one mine to another as a common laborer.
The Penalty
3
Trella was offering to pay him for his skills, like any common laborer.
Quest for honour
4
The owner, a common laborer, was repairing it as well as he could.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
5
But a common laborer is socially of little worth, financially of still less value.
Burned Bridges
6
I was a common laborer, which is also practical, more than anything you've ever done.
Helen of troy
7
Make me go to work like any common laborer!
The Second Generation
8
Delia Jenkins, my daughter is a housewife and Cleo Luckett, my other daughter, a common laborer.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
9
As a common laborer the Negro in his ignorance has had to battle against great odds.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature / Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought...
10
These facts show the value of the Negro to the South simply as a common laborer.
The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 03, March, 1890
11
Bynes' father was a common laborer, and his mother acted in the capacity of chambermaid and spinner.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
12
But he is generally a common laborer.
Cashel Byron's Profession
13
At last a common laborer was found to fulfill the conditions; he was absolutely happy; but, alas!
The True Citizen: How to Become One
14
And your father, a common laborer.
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1
15
I was disguised as a common laborer, had a pick and shovel, and about one hundred empty sandbags.
"Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
16
Any common laborer, he repeated sadly.
Greener Than You Think
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common