workfolk
Example Sentences
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Tess waited outside the door of the farmhouse till the group of workfolk had received their wages, and then Marian introduced her.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles 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 voices and laughs of the workfolk eating and drinking under the rick came to her as if they were a quarter of a mile off.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
No saint or philosopher ever betrayed a greater fortitude than these poor and simple workfolk.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
"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