toilers

Shall we mourn for the decay of the British House of Commons because the representatives of the toilers are therein, and go back to what arc called the more glorious days of Gladstone?

Empire and Democracy 1910

Latisan -- and behind the toilers was a dominating spirit that was a combination of courage, wild enthusiasm, loyalty, and devotion in a campaign that now was entered upon with tempestuous fervor in the presence of Lida Kennard.

Joan of Arc of the North Woods Holman Day 1900

The burden and the joy of the toilers was the same.

The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

The burden and the joy of the toilers was the same.

Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852

"Now by a chance only this morning I found in some old records which I was studying, that the heir to the throne of Egypt a thousand years ago, had, and therefore, as nothing ever changes in Egypt, still has, a right to a private librarian for which the State, that is, the toilers of the land, must pay as in the end they pay for all.

Moon of Israel Henry Rider Haggard 1890

As Mr. Wolfe wrote: "Honest toilers, broad fingernails, and curves disappeared from the Bauhaus forever."

Staying Warm in the Machine Pia Catton 2011

In their early days, following World War I, the Europe-based Bauhaus thinkers still embraced "yeomen, honest toilers, people with knit brows and broad fingernails who could make things by hand for architectural interiors, simple wooden furniture, simple pots and glassware, simple this and simple that."

Staying Warm in the Machine Pia Catton 2011

King, and those who go to compose the powers that be, yearly spend in wasteful luxury $1,850,000,000, or 370,000,000 pounds, which is thirty-two per cent. of the total wealth produced by all the toilers of the country.

CORONATION DAY 2010

Scientists, philosophers and quite a few toilers in the humanities believe—and would have the rest of us believe—that nothing fundamental separates humanity from animality.

Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011

Having been let go from MI6, or what its toilers refer to as "The Circus," Smiley is initially lured back by the man known only as Control, who's also been in bad odor with the department simply for aging.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Alec Guinness Spectacular on DVD David Finkle 2011