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And not only this, for it requires a glass - blower to take the place of a striking glass-blower, while any kind of a striker or out-of-work can take the place of a ditch-digger.
THE TRAMP 2010
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The government would have made me work at the career they chose for me and, even if I was lucky enough to be selected to be a doctor rather than a ditch-digger, the pay in Cuban pesos would be so inadequate that some doctors in Cuba drive taxis on the side in order to have enough money to feed their families.
Judge Alex Ferrer: A Debt I Can't Repay Judge Alex Ferrer 2011
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That's how I know I'm a ditch-digger, leather bootstraps and old grease on my hands, and as I shovel the frozen soil back into the hole, I know and she knows now, whether she likes it or not, that that is all I will ever be.
Contemplations on a Romance Cheryl Anne Gardner 2012
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The government would have made me work at the career they chose for me and, even if I was lucky enough to be selected to be a doctor rather than a ditch-digger, the pay in Cuban pesos would be so inadequate that some doctors in Cuba drive taxis on the side in order to have enough money to feed their families.
Judge Alex Ferrer: A Debt I Can't Repay Judge Alex Ferrer 2011
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The grizzled carney who takes tickets on the Tilt-a-Whirl is a ditch-digger compared to the lawyerly status occupied by a barker who can coax people into a tent to look at Lizard Boy, the bearded fat lady, Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, the bored hermaphrodite.
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After the death of his mother in 1892, Tully's Irish immigrant ditch-digger father sent the boy to an orphanage in Cincinnati.
Thomas Gladysz: A Jim Tully Revival: Hobo Author Back in Print Thomas Gladysz 2010
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After the death of his mother in 1892, Tully's Irish immigrant ditch-digger father sent the boy to an orphanage in Cincinnati.
Thomas Gladysz: A Jim Tully Revival: Hobo Author Back in Print Thomas Gladysz 2010
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As a so-called political scientist, you make a pretty good ditch-digger.
Tossing out a government by force if necessary - 101 Dave 2009
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As a so-called political scientist, you make a pretty good ditch-digger.
Archive 2009-12-01 Dave 2009
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The summer -- I described the summer of 2009 that the Democratic Party had to be feeling a little bit like a Louisiana ditch-digger.
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