Example Sentences

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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

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

He was stiff with his great age and the cruel rheumatism that is the doom of the field-worker; and against the brass and leather of his boots the stubble whispered loudly.

From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)

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