The term workingman can never be anything but a grammatical common denominator. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and Egolatry] Reference
The difference between the rich and the workingman is a trivial distinction?. From Wordnik.com. [Who Bears the Tax Burden?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
What we call the workingman, the day laborer, the mechanic, the mill hand, had no existence as classes. From Wordnik.com. [A School History of the United States] Reference
They're bad enough here and this is called the workingman's paradise. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
The workingman is a great power everywhere in Australia, but South Australia is his paradise. From Wordnik.com. [Following the Equator] Reference
Most of his architectural work he entrusted to an enthusiastic builder whom he had known as a workingman at Beverley. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
I always saw John as a 'workingman's hero', and Paul as a snobbish, conservative. From Wordnik.com. [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Miller seems uncomfortable cast as the enemy of the workingman. From Wordnik.com. [Motown Mechanic] Reference
A workingman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Memory Selections] Reference
The workingman, an engineer named Charles Curran, was employed by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1. No. 21, April 1, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
Yes, the workingman, if he only knew it, is wearing the imperial robe. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Does convict labor interfere with the interests of the free workingman?. From Wordnik.com. [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition] Reference
Far better is the case of the workingman attracted by the socialist ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
But she knew nothing of Bullard's character, believing him to be a workingman. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
A French workingman has a far larger vocabulary at his command than the English laborer. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
But an ordinary workingman cannot do anything worse than spend his hard-earned money on games. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
One day on the cars Mr. Field chanced to sit near a workingman who had with him his wife and baby. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896] Reference
Cover mouth and chin and one will say that he has the strong face of the ordinary American workingman. From Wordnik.com. [The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt] Reference
American life and that the American workingman was the best fed and the best clothed workingman in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Friend always of the workingman, he was persistently urged by their party to accept a nomination for Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Russell H. Conwell] Reference
In presence of so simple and effective a definition of the rights of the workingman, strikes sink into nothingness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
A young workingman was assisting some bricklayers in an extension adjacent to the foundry of Christofle and Company. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
"The Talk of the Desperate," which formulated what was assumed as the expression of a workingman, used this language. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference
A workingman who recognized the poet would not let him sit down till with his blouse he had wiped the seat clean and dry. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Look back to that time and then see the prodigious advance of liberal ideas in England, the changed political condition of the workingman. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
The question for them is not whether from time to time something more falls to the workingman, but what proportion he gets of the total product. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
That presentation has always been repellent to us and always will be, no matter how much he may be proclaimed as the friend of the workingman. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
New York City, by a chairman who, wishing to curry favour with the crowd, called out with a loud voice, "Henry George, the friend of the workingman.". From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
From the very beginning of his public life he had been a champion of the workingman when the workingman needed defense against exploitation and injustice. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
When a workingman goes upon the market to sell something for money with which to buy bread and butter and other necessaries of life, what has he to offer for sale?. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
This is the ordinary garb of a workingman, and corresponds to the national or peasant costume of European countries; and its use signifies a tribute to nationality. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
He left, in appearance a more or less average workingman of Leningrad, walked to the bus station on Nashimson Volodarski and waited for the next bus to Petrodvorets. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution] Reference
But every one of these things has been magnified, distorted and exaggerated for the purpose and with the result of keeping the workingman quiet about more vital things. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
In the first place, they ought to teach the workingman, the laborer, the wageworker, that by demanding what is improper and impossible he plays into the hands of his foes. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
He was evidently a man without guile, and, although modest and plain-spoken, he knew what the farmer and workingman most wanted, and addressed himself to their best thought. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
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