Workmen

They fix their minds entirely on the workmen for the time being _in_ the trade, and do not take note of any other _workmen_ as interested in the matter. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)

Feeding your workmen is a very good idea, and one I will remember for another time (if I ever face it again). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The capacity of her workmen is represented by 1, in comparison with the 2.25 capacity of the American workman. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When he entered the shop, his master came forward to ask what was his pleasure, but as soon as he saw who it was he called his workmen, and they all fell on Labakan with blows and angry words, till at last he fell, half fainting, on a heap of old clothes. ❋ Unknown (2003)

While the great rise in workmen's earnings in recent years has reduced the importance of this type of insurance it still accounts for a large percentage of Metropolitan's income. ❋ Unknown (1952)

I do not recall that I have any of them sent to me by friends for my information, but these double-paged advertisements appear week after week in which the employers 'associations are advertising the arguments that they are standing with sword in one hand and shield in the other to protect their workmen from the slavery and the autocracy of the unions. ❋ Unknown (1921)

French "facts" were apparently as helpless to control the general building of a people as they had been to restrain English workmen in their detail, and after the great abbey was finished in all its beauty England went on as before. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Peter Paulson, one of our workmen, is having trouble, too, with the oxen. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

A piercing shriek attracted the workmen from the factory to the spot; Madame Delmare had fainted on the bank, and Noun's body was floating in the water at her feet. ❋ Unknown (1900)

He looks after his subjects -- for I think he calls his workmen his subjects -- in a truly fatherly or feudal manner, but I do not doubt that he would drive the best of them off the estate with dogs, if, even in the depth of winter, they did not stand hat in hand the whole time they were talking to him. ❋ Max Simon Nordau (1886)

So he called his workmen and had them dig a deep round hole in the ground, and in this hole they built a house of brass which had but one room and no door at all, but only a small window at the top. ❋ James Baldwin (1883)

It would hardly be reasonable to expect from the Welsh exactly the same kind of success in life which we often find in English workmen; the aims and ideals of the two races are so distinct, and it must be frankly confessed the advantage is not always on the side of the Englishman. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

It would hardly be reasonable to expect from the Welsh exactly the same kind of success in life which we often find in English workmen; the aims and ideals of the two races are so distinct, and it must be frankly confessed the advantage is not always on the side of the ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

A large force of workmen is engaged in repairing her. ❋ Unknown (1862)

Wilson, reported to Roosevelt in 1938 that he had told Hitler that “you were very much interested in certain phases of the sociological effort, notably for the youth and workmen, which is being made in Germany, and that one of my first tasks would be to report to you on how these were being carried out.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

He therefore called his workmen together, and bade them dig a deep round hole in the earth, and then he had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There my workmen, that is to say, the brave men that ❋ Unknown (2003)

You say that the question about the workmen was a trap. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Giron campaign. [applause] This effort by the workmen is the tribute paid to those heroes who fell fighting to inflict the first great defeat of imperialism in America. ❋ Unknown (1968)