Example Sentences

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Only Marta wasn’t a poor field-worker like the rest of us.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

As we drove into Freetown, the field-worker introduced himself: “My name is Leslie, it is a pleasure to meet you gentlemen.”

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

I would wear the blue overalls of the field-worker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati tea-glasses.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Thus, in arguing the case for the field-worker, as I propose here to do, there is no longer the easy target of the dusty antiquarian at which to hurl the javelin.

From The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Weigall, Arthur E. P. B.

Water never touches their bodies; tight-lacing is a female rule in even the peasant class; the field-worker is as tightly cased in her leather stays as the duchess in her satin corset.

From Critical Studies by Ouida