lasters

She had come to regard Beals as something of a chronic fanatic, but as she knew that the lasters were fairly paid, she had not supposed it meant anything.

The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

"We've found out -- no matter how, but we've found out -- that the boss is goin 'to dock the lasters' pay."

The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

The lasters, for some occult reason, were always the most turbulent element in Lloyd's.

The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

Nellie Stone was at the desk eating her luncheon; Ed Flynn and Dennison and one of the lasters, who had looked in and then stepped in when he saw Lloyd was gone, were there.

The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

It ended in a committee of four -- John Sargent, Amos Lee, Tom Peel, and one of the older lasters, a very respectable man, a deacon in the Baptist Church -- being appointed to wait on Robert Lloyd that evening.

The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

"No, but ever so many of the lasters have large families."

The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

These shoemakers -- lasters, button-holers, binders, and so on -- no longer wore themselves out over their machines.

A Traveler from Altruria: Romance William Dean Howells 1878

Indeed you find many of the late bloomers / long lasters (Frank Howard, Frank Thomas, Ruth), the early faders (Kluszewski, Powell) and the random spikers (Stargell, Baylor and even Luzinski).

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Indeed you find many of the late bloomers / long lasters (Frank Howard, Frank Thomas, Ruth), the early faders (Kluszewski, Powell) and the random spikers (Stargell, Baylor and even Luzinski).

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Indeed you find many of the late bloomers / long lasters (Frank Howard, Frank Thomas, Ruth), the early faders (Kluszewski, Powell) and the random spikers (Stargell, Baylor and even Luzinski).

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