day-labourers

I have seen settlers who went out within the last eight years as day-labourers, now the owners of substantial homesteads, with the requisite quantity of farming-stock.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The wages of farm-servants are 4_l. _ per month with board: day-labourers earn from 4_s. _ to 5_s. _ per diem, and in harvest 10_s. _, without board.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

It was the lower sort of people with whom he chiefly conversed, such as ploughmen, ditchers, and other day-labourers.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

What wonder that our villages are depopulated, and our farms in want of day-labourers?

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

Another projected a variety of plans for new dictionaries, which were executed under his eye by day-labourers; and the province of a third was history and voyages, collected or abridged by understrappers of the same class.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

The want of servants and day-labourers is felt here still more than in the other towns of the Hedjaz.

Travels in Arabia 2003

All the Knights of the Round Table were poor day-labourers, employed to row over the rivers of Cocytus, Phlegeton, Styx,

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

All the Knights of the Round Table were poor day-labourers, employed to row over the rivers of Cocytus, Phlegeton, Styx,

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

These Committees, which form the last link of a chain of despotism, are composed of low tradesmen and day-labourers, with an attorney, or some person that can read and write, at their head, as President.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

She was then at Taloo, a village on the coast of Imeeo, and thither the two adventurers betook themselves, hoping to be at once elevated to important posts at court; but quite resigned, in case of disappointment, to work as day-labourers in a sugar-plantation, or go to sea in a whaler, then in the harbour for wood and water.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various