farm-labourer

• “My friend Philosewers and I, contemplating a farm-labourer the other day, who was drinking his mug of beer on a settle at a roadside ale-house door, we fell to humming the fag-end of an old ditty, of which the poor man and his beer, and the sin of parting them, form the doleful burden.”

  Contributions to All the Year Round

• “Knut Pedersen, vagabond, wanders about the country with his tramp-companions, Grindhusen, the painter who can ditch and delve at a pinch, or Falkenberg, farm-labourer in harvest-time, and piano-tuner where pianos are.”

  The Growth of the Soil

• “They cut off three of his toes, but the others recovered so that he was still able to work and went on living for another twenty years, first as a farm-labourer, then in his old age as a watchman.”

  Master and Man

• “Paris, or a farm-labourer whom he will pay to have taught a trade.”

  Within a Budding Grove

• “On the farms, the regular farm-labourer lives on his employer's property.”

  "Apartheid - the Indictment"

• “If not-well, you will be found by some farm-labourer early in the morning. ”

  The Circus of Adventure

• “Slimak winced at the word 'farm-labourer', but he said nothing.”

  Selected Polish Tales

• “Nor is he less skilful in the humble food and cooking of the farm-labourer; indeed, he seems never satisfied until he fairly exhausts all the useful matter contained in every subject upon which he touches.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843

• “He educated himself during the time while he was working as farm-labourer.”

  Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman

• “Farmer Jennings has taken him to work in his hay-field, and says if he does well he may perhaps keep him as a farm-labourer? ”

  Holiday Tales

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