workfolk
Example Sentences
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"We workfolk shall have some lordly- junketing to-night." said Cainy Ball, casting forth his thoughts in a new direction.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
"We workfolk shall have some lordly junketing to-night," said Cainy Ball, casting forth his thoughts in a new direction.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
To take an instance: There are clothes and shows and so forth, with which I must provide my workfolk.
From The Economist by Henry Graham Dakyns
The other workfolk were by this time all gathered under the rick, where the loose straw formed a comfortable retreat.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
But the act of the Lancashire workfolk was done in cold blood, and in defiance of every natural impulse.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
