hard-handed

A couple of hard-handed caissoniers, settling down to some serious drinking.

These hard-handed men are developing this region, earning a livelihood for themselves and enriching those who employ them.

One of my neighbors, a thorough American, is much concerned about the growth of what he calls the "hard-handed aristocracy."

I AM not an old and experienced farmer, nor a tiller of the soil, nor one of the hard-handed sons of labor.

The largest soul of all the British lands came among us in the shape of a hard-handed Scottish Peasant.