Two or three of our labourers yesterday immediately set to work and got most excessively drunk in honour of the arrival of Master Charles.
They very sildome hurt the labourers (as they say) except they prouoke them by laughing and rayling at them: for then they threw grauel stones at them, or hurt them by some other means.
Pioners or diggers for mettal, do affirme, that in many mines, there appeare straunge shapes and spirites, who are apparrelled like vnto other labourers in the pit.
For hée saith, there are some cruell and terrible to behold: which for the moste parte, doo very much annoy and hurt the labourers digging for mettall.
The free labourers were to give information of the crops produced, so that the fifths and tenths might be duly paid; and it may have been the breakdown of such an impossible institution which led to the establishment of the 'publicani.
There was a fire in the tap-room, and some country-labourers were drinking before it.
One of its decrees placed widows, orphans, merchants, and labourers under the safeguard of religion.
As the fleet of the Pisans and Genoese had brought with them a great number of labourers and engineers, they were employed in directing and carrying on the works of the siege.
Shepherds and labourers abandoned the fields to follow him into towns and cities; when he arrived in a city, all labours were suspended.
Some time in October, a smart night's frost made Mr. Crofton think that it was time to take in and pit his own potatoes, and he told his steward to get labourers accordingly.
But he declared that it was not so; that the only benefit his labourers got from him was constant work, and a house rent-free; and that the neatness of the gardens and dwellings was of their own doing.
When in the hush that followed the massing of the labourers about him the harsh booming voice floated over the heads of the people her body shook as with a chill.
There would be a meeting, perhaps a series of meetings in one of the little halls where labourers gather to attend to the affairs of their unions.
One of the labourers who was a socialist continually cursed the army and his words started McGregor to thinking of the dream he had so long held and that now seemed fading.
In a way the labourersunderstood the undercurrent of terror their marching together had inspired and like the advertising man dancing on the sidewalk before the grocery were made happy by it.
Two half drunken labourersstood by the bar quarrelling.
During the time of our blessed Lord's sojourn upon earth, he proclaimed the harvest to be plenteous and the labourers few; and he instructed his disciples to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send more labourers into the field.
Labourers that buy it at an under-price of them unto whom they worke.
Where there was a considerable body of small landowners the number of hired labourers tended to be small, the work of cultivation being done by the holder and his family; e.
They had come thither from unknown regions, as labourers of that class do come when they are needed.
They might bind them to give employment, at liberal wages, to a number of labourers in a direct ratio to the amount of their incomes.
If the labourers are not forthcoming, the chief is punished, his village being sometimes burned.
By means, then, of gaudy handkerchiefs, or firebrands, the labourers are obtained.
We soon learned that the building of a house was but the work of an hour or two, and that a couple of men--one to cut the slabs and the other to lay them--were labourers sufficient.
The tradesmen and labourers of England live by the travail of their hands, and the nobles live on their own rents and revenues, and if the kings vex them they are repaid; not that the king can tax his people at pleasure, no!
And the greater part of such runawaylabourers become commonly stout thieves, wherefrom robberies and felonies increase everywhere from day to day, to the destruction of the aforesaid realm.
After my departure from Bristol I continued to help my fellow-labourers by my prayers.
Nothing had come in, and the labourers had scarcely any thing to give.
We are now, however, cast again on the love of our Lord for further supplies, as there is neither any thing in hand, nor have the labourers any more of their own to give.
Lord of the harvest, send Thou, in compassion to poor sinners, more labourersinto the harvest!
Thus a part of what has been due for several weeks to my dear fellow-labourers is defrayed.
One of the labourers had received through his family 10l.
That He would remember likewise my fellow-labourers in the work, who trust in Him, but who would be tried were He to withhold supplies.
Just when I was going to meet my fellow labourers for prayer, I received from Trowbridge 4l.
At twelve I met with my fellow-labourers for prayer.
Nothing had come in by four oclock in the afternoon, when I went to meet with my fellow-labourers for prayer.
After prayer one of the labourers gave me all the money he had, 16s.
When I arrived I found that one of the labourers had sold a few of his books, together with two which had been given by another labourer on the 13th, for which he had received 7s.
When I met with the brethren and sisters for prayer, one of the labourers gave his watch, under the condition that 1l.
They were mostly small men, born and bred in the parish, some wholly self-made, with no interest or knowledge of anything outside their own affairs, and almost as far removed as the labourers themselves from the ranks above.
The work in which he most delighted was precisely that which most labourers hated, before threshing machines came in despite the action of the "mobs"--threshing out corn with the flail.
For the private collector's desire to possess British-taken birds' eggs does not diminish; I doubt if more than one clutch in ten escapes the searching eyes of the poor shepherds and labourers who are hired to supply the cabinets.
The misery of these out-of-work labourers was extreme.
Thus you will find the best of men among the shepherds and labourers freely helping themselves to any wild creature that falls in their way, yet sharing the game-preserver's hatred of the real poacher.
How the labourers at that time, when they were paid seven or eight shillings a week, could afford to buy fuel at such prices to bake their rye bread and keep the frost out of their bones is a marvel to us.
We then repaired to the Galadima’s residence, and enlisted in the army of labourers that were employed in repairing the walls of the town.
Four batches of labourers passed through also, between the time we retired and dawn, dragging dead horses out of the town.
Many of theselabourers were slaves, sent by the various chiefs and big men; others belonged to the Emir himself.
And, as likely as not, the word Home will have only a special significance, indicating the common abode of retired labourers who are drawing old-age pensions.
The interest of this quotation lies in the fact that, all unconsciously, so intelligent a man as Hawthorne had been reduced to the mental state of our agricultural labourers in revolt against the country life.
The Labourers Acts and their administration have been, on the whole, extremely successful.
It will thus be seen that the terms of repayment for loans under the Labourers Acts were made much easier by the Act of 1906 than they were under the previous Labourers Acts.
Prior to the passing of the Act of 1906, the loans for the purposes of the Labourers Acts were advanced by the Commissioners of Public Works and were repayable by annuities which included principal and interest.
Statutes Relating to the Provision of Allotments of Land and Dwellings for Agricultural Labourers in Ireland.
The Imperial Parliament is heavily in debt to Ireland for the spoliation of the Irish farmers and labourers which it permitted.
The work of the District Councils in providing better dwellings for agricultural labourersis perhaps more nearly completed.
Lands acquired by Rural District Councils under the Labourers Acts are also compulsorily registered in the Land Register.
He also appointed an overseer to stay there permanently, and take care that the labourers did not waste their time; and every week he paid a visit of inspection to the new establishment.
The vessels being ready, Champlain and Du Pont Grave embarked with labourers and artisans of all kinds, and arriving at Tadoussac and Quebec, found all things in good and flourishing condition.
And within they began to make the repaires and trauerses as at the place of Spaine, whereto was made extreme diligence, but not such as the lord would, and as was needfull, because there were no labourersfor to helpe.
The enemies on the other side night and day without rest (for the great number of labourers that they had hourely and newly ready) hewed and vndermined the sayd wall.
Yet, to my certain knowledge, sudden floods have driven the labourers away, and swept the barns clean of the finest harvest.
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