common laborer
Example Sentences
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For example, in London in the 1860s, a male common laborer who possessed no particular skills could earn about twenty shillings a week.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
A yearly subscription cost almost a week’s wages for a common laborer, so many readers followed the news at their local tavern or lending library.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
His favorite meal consisted of coarse bread, a few sardines, and a piece of cheese—the usual food of a common laborer.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
For "five years of misery and woe" during which "hunger was my true comrade", he worked in Vienna as common laborer, carpenter, housepainter, picked up a little money decorating Christmas cards.
From Time Magazine Archive
He first worked for Holmes as a common laborer but soon proved to possess a talent that Holmes found particularly valuable.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
