They were gnarled, rustic-looking men, shepherds or labourers from the olive groves, perhaps, with faces deeply stained by the ferocious suns of farther south. ❋ Unknown (1938)
Both in Demarara and Antigua the question of introducing black and coloured labourers from the United States is seriously under consideration. ❋ Unknown (1862)
On this account several thousands of labourers from the other parts of Persia proceed thither annually, but who, on the approach of the deadly heats of summer, retire from the province. ❋ Unknown (1856)
New England may call lustily for the abolition of negro slavery and the elevation of the negro race to the political status of white men; but the Northern, the Middle, and the great Western States repudiate the political partnership, would fight to the death against the social equality, and would rather expel the negroes from American soil than consent to a manumission of slaves which would bring black labourers from the Southern rice and cotton fields to the farms and cities of the colder North, to reduce the wages of white labour. ❋ Unknown (1862)
On the whole, the farms appeared to him to be of various sizes: many so large that a bell was used to call the labourers to or from their work; while some were so small as to have only a few sheaves of corn, or a rig or two of potatoes, scattered among the trunks of the trees. ❋ Various (N/A)
The lack of farm labourers, which is the common subject of complaint by farmers in all parts of the United States, cannot fail to be aggravated by the change in the conditions of tenancy just noted. ❋ Horace Curzon Plunkett (1893)
A flourishing crop of grass and flowers grows on the stable-roof, and there is a little belfry with a big bell to call the labourers home from the fields. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)
Our chief employment of these so-called labourers was in transporting heavy castings and parts of machinery from one place to another. ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)
The land here does not yield much, and if one is not to farm at a loss one must employ serf labour or hired labourers, which is almost the same thing, or put it on a peasant footing -- that is, work the fields oneself and with one's family. ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)
The reason given is that corn land supports so many more agricultural labourers, which is so far true; but if corn farming cannot be carried on profitably without great reduction of the labour expenses the argument is not worth much, while the narrowness of the view is at once evident. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
That nothing might be incomplete, some new and well-designed cottages were erected for the skilled artisans -- they could scarcely be called labourers -- who were engaged to work these engines. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
Eulalia to witness a true plantation scene before the duskiness of twilight, he ordered the bugle blast to sound which called the labourers home, and its echoes rolled over the whitened plains with clear and sweet reverberations. ❋ Unknown (1854)
He, together with myself, had had it particularly laid upon his heart, during the eight years previously, to ask the Lord again and again to call labourers from among us for foreign service. ❋ George M��ller (1851)
He called labourers and husbandmen, He now calls builders. ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)
'Under whose genial influence the order of the Peasantry, "a country's pride," has vanished from the face of the land,' said Henry Sydney, 'and is succeeded by a race of serfs, who are called labourers, and who burn ricks.' ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
He therefore calls His labourers, and renders to them their wages, so that when they shall be gathered together in the judgment, each man shall receive according to his works. ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)
One good result has, however, been produced by these faithful labourers, which is the conversion of these People to temperance; which I consider the first important step rewards the Other results, and which of itself is an achievement that redounds much to the credit and humanity of those, whose lives have been devoted to its accomplishment. ❋ Unknown (1841)
Still, some additional strength would be added in that way to the war, -- and then, unquestionably, it would weaken the rebels by drawing off their labourers, which is of great importance; but I am not so sure that we could do much with the blacks. ❋ Abraham Lincoln (1837)
The last trumpet, at the great day, shall call the labourers, 1 Thess. iv. ❋ Unknown (1721)
