The labourer crossed to the other side of the road and followed.
The labourer who had wanted a light was coming across the road at a run and, though a little puzzled, had seized the constable's other hand.
I have spent ten years in collecting the folk songs of the West of England, and I have not come across one in which the agricultural labourergrumbles at his lot.
The labourer does not go to the land as to a leisurely summer home.
By the reasonable shortening of hours, even the dull routine labourer may have a chance of exercising his faculties as a man.
That is, he accepted the “supply price” of wages--being the maintenance which the labourer under competition would accept.
Similarly the “hands” who work the machines on a farm are fewer but are probably more intelligent than the agricultural labourer in a backward country.
Unluckily the economists, influenced by the poverty that followed the last great war, which ended in 1815, concluded that the unskilled labourer would multiply till his children starved.
On the side of demand the buyers cannot give more than the value of the product of the last labourer they engage.
On the side of supply the labourer would change his trade, or not have children, or not bring up his children to that trade, or he would starve and die, unless he received what he considered a maintenance.
Even so, the day labourer suffers from the lack of intelligence he is called upon for.
This was pointed out to us by a labourer as the spot at which the Emperor alights and reposes when he visits the Botanical Garden.
A labourer is worthy of his hire, no less, but no more, and in the long run he must contribute an equivalent for what he is paid.
My dear lady," said he, "you eat so little that if I were a day labourer I could easily support you on my wages.
The labourer had stared after the retreating figure until it disappeared in the darkness, and had then gone home without thinking any more of the incident.
He incidentally notices that a labourer received eightpence or tenpence per day.
When the sieve was filled the labourer lifted it far enough away from the tripod for it to be swinging on one side.
A sturdy labourerwill consume at least 5 go in a day, and sometimes 7 or even 10 go.
She earned as a labourer on a farm, beside her board and lodging, 25 sen daily.
Think of the Western farm labourer being asked to plough and the allotment holder to dig almost knee-deep in mud.
Here a merchant's son, a learned churchman, and a rich nobleman, welcomed an Assisan labourer in their midst with the simple brotherly love which was to be the keynote of the franciscan order.
A few days later a labourer named Egidio "beholding how those noble knights of Assisi despised the world, so that the whole country stood amazed," came in search of Francis to beg him to take him as one of his companions.
The poorest labourer could help to set up an arch of triumph, or to bring sedge to a bonfire.
No labourer dared bring any thing for sale lest some marauder should lay hands on it by the way.
After a time each labourerbecomes the owner of the land he has cultivated.
The debt thus increased by leaps and bounds, and in a short time a labourer owed his master, two, three hundred pounds.
The missionary made me his fellow-labourer in the islands, and I strove to bring the poor heathen to the foot of the cross.
Mother Jael says that he was half seas over when he left the camp, so I daresay he met some labourer who quarrelled with him and used his pistol.
But is it likely that a labourer would have a pistol?
That the head labourer had some doubt about me, I verily believe.
The principal labourer on the farm was courting, on the sly, this young woman, and I noticed he became sulky with me, as Miss Mary on several occasions selected me to perform some little service for her.
Where you now see labourer and prince, you would see equality indeed--the equality of wild men.
The labourer is himself the owner of the soil, and to one so circumstanced work assumes quite a different aspect; the spade goes deeper, the scythe takes a wider sweep, and the muscles lift a heavier burden.
Everything seemed to conspire to make thelabourer a pauper even if he would aspire to independence, until, through early and improvident marriages, the lax treatment of bastardy, &c.
The poverty which compelled the farmer to use the threshing machine, bore down the labourer to unprecedented distress, and drove him to desperation.
As to swearing, a labourerwas liable to be fined 1s.
Stallan was a labourer of respectable character and in constant work, and became one of the men attached to the fire engine.
The labourer could become a citizen, the experienced citizen could rise to be the ruler of his city, or of a confederation of cities, and be the leader of great interests.
The Welsh farmer presents, however, a stronger contrast than even the Welsh labourer to the same class in England.
An expert labourer will set up as many as 5,000 of these stakes in the course of the day.
A single labourer can plant, it is said, as many as eight thousand of these fans in the ground in the course of a long day.
Beside the car an old, grey-bearded labourer was leaning on a stick, talking to the chauffeur.
The old labourer paused, and put his hairy, twisted hand flat down on the turf beside the bluebells.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "labourer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
