working-people

But he works a lot of smaller venues now, a semiconductor plant, a diner, a coffee shop, working-people places talking working-people issues, trying to counter in word and picture her charge that he, the son of a single mother who once used food stamps, is an elitist.

CNN Transcript May 5, 2008 2008

He sat and watched the working-people making their deposits, to which at intervals he signed his name.

Wessex Tales 2006

I never wish you to lower yourself; but somehow I cannot help thinking it unjust to include all poor working-people under the general and insulting name of "the mob," and continually to think of them and treat them haughtily. '

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Farther along the shore he discovered a neat, white cottage were some kindly working-people agreed to rent him an upper room for a study.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Julien noticed that the remarks of the working-people were in a very much better tone than those of the Auberive gentry, with whom he had breakfasted; the gayety of these children of the woods, although of a common kind, was always kept within decent limits, and he never once had occasion to feel ashamed.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Their mute depression communicated itself to the working-people, and to the peasants who had flocked in from the adjacent country, and who, all sought a guide for their opinions in the faces of the principal townsmen, also for the most part proprietors of the surrounding districts.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

On Saturdays there is an earlier current of home-going working-people; and it is easy to detect a quite different air about them from what they wear on other days.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

He talked to "working-people" because he talked to everybody as he went along his joyous way.

An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

But you working-people, you never look, and you always leap, and when you have got your ten children and nothing to feed them on, then you think that the gentlefolks who would not marry because they had not enough to keep families on, are to stint and starve themselves to keep

Littlebourne Lock F. Bayford Harrison

Amedee thinks he has used for his dialogue familiar but nevertheless poetic lines, in which he has not feared to put in certain graphic words and energetic speeches from the mouths of working-people.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various