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Meanings of english labourer in English

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Usage of english labourer in English
1
I fear, therefore, that the average English labourer would not prosper here.
At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies
2
A Greek really views land somewhat as English labourers view game.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
3
Compared with our English labourers, their muscular power would appear very feeble and inadequate.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
4
Compare such domestic utensils-theseoil-jugsand water-jars-withthosein the house of an English labourer.
By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
5
Who ever heard of an English labourer taking a fourteen days' rest at the seaside?
In the Heart of the Vosges and Other Sketches by a "Devious Trav...
6
A peasant in Spain will munch an onion just as an English labourer eats an apple.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
7
The golden age of the English labourer set in, when food was cheap, wages high, and labour abundant.
English Villages
8
The people resisted the cactus-innovation as the English labourer did the introduction of machinery, and tore up the plants.
To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I
9
The life of the English labourer is a steady march down a hill with a poorhouse at the bottom.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
10
Change the English labourer into a poor slave, working for another, and you will hardly recognise the same view.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
11
The second point urged by Mill, and still by some, is that peasant-proprietors are better off than English labourers.
Speculations from Political Economy
12
The worst times for the English labourer in town and country since the Norman Conquest were the reign of Edward VI.
The Rise of the Democracy
13
There was a description of the once miserable cabins now transformed into homesteads so comfortable that English labourers would not disdain them.
Hyacinth
14
Few French peasants, we fancy, would exchange their house, land and stock for the furniture of an English labourer's cottage, wardrobe included.
The Roof of France; Or, the Causses of the Lozère
15
At the top were to be an Earl and a Bishop; at the bottom the English labourer, better clothed, better fed, and contented.
The Long White Cloud: "Ao Tea Roa"
16
It is little profit to the landless, resourceless English labourer to know that his ancestor was a yeoman when the Prussian was a serf.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
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