hop-pickers

All the tennis games are grouped together, all the bridges, all the meadows, all the home-going figures – schoolmates, goose-girls, hop-pickers, cows, uniformly trudging right to left against a moody horizon.

Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 – review Laura Cumming 2010

Alexander Mann's homeward-bound hop-pickers, husband and wife, are straight out of Millet compare with the Millet conveniently hung nearby.

Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 – review Laura Cumming 2010

A vivid portrayal of the tensions between the cultures of the hop-pickers, the gypsies and the townspeople is richly displayed through the use of dialect, history and landscapes.

Reader reviews of An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear. 2008

We stopped at the hop-pickers huts, once used every year by the teams of people who came out from London for the hop season - all empty and derelict now, but the tradition is remembered with an annual end-of-summer gathering and barbeque...

An Autumn day... Joanna Bogle 2008

We stopped at the hop-pickers huts, once used every year by the teams of people who came out from London for the hop season - all empty and derelict now, but the tradition is remembered with an annual end-of-summer gathering and barbeque...

Archive 2008-10-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

Everything he read or saw or heard, from the narrative style of Tolstoy's novels to the captions on seaside postcards, from the rhyming-slang of hop-pickers to the speeches of Communist dictators, was noted as factually as possible and then put to some use - to support an opinion or challenge a prejudice.

George Orwell in close-up 1998

From his earliest years as a policeman for the British Empire in Burma -- an "unsuitable career," he called it -- Orwell always spoke out against oppressors of the poor and helpless: returning to England he spoke for the rights of tramps, hop-pickers, or coal miners.

Not all Books are Created Equal: Orwell and his Animals at Fifty 1996

She wants vineyard men, hop-pickers, cherry, peach, apricot and berry pickers, and people to work in canneries at these prices.

As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous

They reminded me more of a mob of Kent hop-pickers than anything else, and it was a matter of some surprise, not to say disgust, to some of us to think that such a sorry crowd should be able to withstand disciplined troops in the way they did.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

On all sides were the lights among the camps, where the hop-pickers were making merry.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various