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  • His fellow-workmen, as usual, made a grant to him from the fund, and Clancy and Munster, as usual, refused to pay it over from the fund.

    A CURIOUS FRAGMENT 2010

  • Isch. He must learn at any rate, I think, to rule his fellow-workmen.

    Oeconomicus 2007

  • ‘Yes, mum,’ said Jack Adamson; ‘we’ve been fellow-workmen when the work was hard enough.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • Long after her stepfather had gone back to work, she sat with it still about her; and more than one of his fellow-workmen sent a glance at the girl in her grandeur, which set off, by vivid contrast, her raven black hair, lake-blue eyes, and pale, oval face.

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • Sometimes he would stitch away as fast as if he had a red-hot needle and a burning thread, and at other times he would sit lost in thought, and with such a queer look about him that his fellow-workmen used to say, ‘Labakan has got on his aristocratic face today.’

    The Crimson Fairy Book 2003

  • Boldemand and his fellow-workmen are drilling the last holes; they will be finished by quitting time today and tomorrow they will set up the ironwork.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • So his fellow-workmen said when they told the story afterwards, remembering even this trivial incident.

    One Day at Arle 1996

  • The Babylonian Gemara repeats almost the same things, alleging these last matters after this manner: "They sat not confusedly, but the artificers by themselves, the silversmiths by themselves, the braziers by themselves, the weavers by themselves, &c.; so that if a poor stranger came in, he might know his own fellow-workmen, and betake himself to them, and thence receive sustenance for himself and family."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • And if you used some sharpness and importunity with the slothful, would you think that man was in his wits who would take it ill of you, and accuse you of pride, selfconceitedness, or unmannerliness, to presume to talk so saucily to your fellow-workmen, or that should tell you that you wrong them by diminishing their reputation?

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • Two of them were chosen, who, with six other labouring men, his own fellow-workmen and friends, bore him to his grave — a man who had fought the Lord's fight even unto the death.

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

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