worky-day

She is far away from this worky-day world; I shall never see her again, but in dreams, as now!

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

At last, even they were left in shadow – the shadow of the distant hills, or of the earth itself; and, in sympathy for the busy citizens of the rookery, I regretted to see their habitation, so lately bathed in glorious light, reduced to the sombre, worky-day hue of the lower world, or of my own world within.

Agnes Grey 1931

But to a contemporary that old New England of the seventeenth century doubtless seemed any thing but picturesque, filled with grim, hard, worky-day realities.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

I need not write to you to pray; but I wish, when your knees have what the common people call a worky-day, you would employ your hands the whole time.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

Lourdans, or Clownes, attired in their ordinary worky-day clothes, and with a common homely countenance, affoord us all the pleasure that may be had from their art: but prentises and learners that are not of so high a forme, besmeare their faces, to disguise themselves, and in motions counterfeit strange visages and antickes, to enduce us to laughter.

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562