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
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
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
Amid a press of homeward-going workfolk, Hilliard clambered to a place on the top and lit his pipe.
From Eve's Ransom by George Gissing
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
