workfolk

Example Sentences

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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

"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

To take an instance: There are clothes and shows and so forth, with which I must provide my workfolk.

From The Economist by Dakyns, Henry Graham

No saint or philosopher ever betrayed a greater fortitude than these poor and simple workfolk.

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

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