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 Hardy, Thomas

Amid a press of homeward-going workfolk, Hilliard clambered to a place on the top and lit his pipe.

From Eve's Ransom by Gissing, George

Long before daylight he awoke at the sound of bells, and hootings, and whistlings, which summoned the Dudley workfolk to their labour.

From Eve's Ransom by Gissing, George

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 Hardy, Thomas

But the act of the Lancashire workfolk was done in cold blood, and in defiance of every natural impulse.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon