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Examples
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This must not be considered a sweeping condemnation of the big private and municipal lodging-houses and working-men's homes.
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By 1984, when the Ashington Group had ceased to function, they had shown their pictures of life in the pits, in working-men's pubs and on their gardening allotments in such far-away places as the Netherlands, Germany and even China.
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It turned out that Pig Eye and Larry had spent the last few days hanging around at a couple of working-men's bars and prowling lumberyards, looking for bosses who wanted cheap labor for cash.
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The note describes the hostility with which the Fall were met by their local audience on the working-men's club circuit.
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We invited him, the other day to a working-men's tea party, where I had been asked to make tea for them; and he gave us quite an able account of his travels.
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It was rather wider in front than the ordinary working-men's cottages, and had a stone parapet above the upper windows, running the whole length of the building, on which were painted, in large black letters, the words, "Bradly's Temperance Hospital."
True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson
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The temperance movement, the organisation of working-men's clubs, and the local preaching of the Nonconformist Churches -- particularly the Primitive Methodist denomination -- have all helped to educate workmen in the conduct of affairs, and to create that sense of personal responsibility which is the only guarantee of an honest democracy.
The Rise of the Democracy Joseph Clayton
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Turning out of the principal street to the right, just opposite to where the old dingy sign-board used to swing, a passer-by could not fail to notice a detached house more lofty and imposing in its appearance than the plain working-men's cottages on either side of it.
True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson
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My travelling companion, Chiron, is fond of twitting me as to the success of one of the "social meetings" to which I dragged him, promising to show him something of working-men's life.
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But the Secretary told us that the garden was lighted up for drill, and that the working-men's battalion was drilling there.
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