How To Use Laboring In A Sentence

Ten years ago he was a Dundee University drop out whose career encompassed labouring, recruitment consultancy and a rock band.
The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
I am labouring here to contradict an old proverb, and make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, namely, to convert a bare 'haugh' and 'brae', of about The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night

One does not need to be laboring under maniacal egomania to begin to believe oneself above it all.
The majority are adult women workers in below-average-income families laboring in unskilled jobs, often in the retail sector.
Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence. Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything
They also repaired, refitted, and caulked ships in the harbor, laboring for a $1.00 a day for their master.
It is at first perfect at the instant the kernel is going to send forth the acrospire, and form itself into the future blade; it is again discovered perfect when the ear is labouring at its extrication, and hastening the production of the yet unformed kernels; in this it appears, the medium of nature's chemistry, equally employed by her in her mutation of the kernel into the blade, and her formation thus of other kernels, by which she effects the completion of that circle to which the operations of the vegetable world are limited. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
Although in other poems Leapor shows that labouring class women can be desperately unhappy in marriage, she is not unequivocal.
Dunkeld; for this fact illustrates one of the great evils under which the Scottish Church was at this time labouring, namely the usurpation of abbeys and benefices by great secular chieftains, an abuse existing side by side, and closely connected with, the scandal of concubinage among the clergy, with its inevitable consequence, the hereditary succession to benefices, and wholesale secularization of the property of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Industrial growth over this period meant that a labouring class became an economic necessity for national wealth. Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
The labouring poor of Shakespeare's London, deformed by drudgery, illness, and accident, tormented by vermin, illiterate and unregenerate, must have presented a certain Calibanesque aspect.
Barrow was positively obsequious to me until he learnt that I too was the son of a labouring man.
He was laden with a heavy old radio and was labouring to keep up.
One day when his brother was labouring through a hornpipe Noel gave himself away by taking the concertina and playing the tune with ease.
It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.
The answer is obvious, and there's no point belaboring it.
Anyhow there were the peasants, men and women, boys and young maidens, toiling and swinking; some hoeing between the vine-rows, some bearing baskets of dung up the steep slopes, some in one way, some in another, labouring for the fruit they should never eat, and the wine they should never drink. A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
David Evans from Wales, the lanky but smooth attacker who has been quietly laboring to bring his game back to the world class form he briefly displayed four years ago, took a small step on that road last night.
Teachers Simon Gibson and Bob Granger have spent every spare moment between classes for the past few weeks labouring to produce a drinking cup holder for Bradley who has severely limited mobility.
She is the unofficial "convener" of about 40 churchgoers who have agreed to staff the trailer as a day-laboring work center. Proposal for day-laborer site brings a national debate to Centreville
Mexico, and Hanchett, at that time a resident of Vicksburg, and laboring in a profession -- the saltatorial, to wit -- a shade less illustrious than that to which he was so soon to attain, was the first man in the city to enlist. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
She seemed not to care that the rest of the class was labouring effortlessly on their reports.
When I had paid for my land by faithfully laboring for the term agreed on: I made a tour to the pool at new Lebanon -- from thence I returned to Dorset. The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace. Containing an Account of the Kingdom of Bow-Woo, in the Interior of Africa; with the Climate and Natural Productions, Laws, and Customs Peculiar to That Place. With an Acco
But do not administer hellebore to such persons as are laboring under empyema connected with abscesses, haemoptysis, and intemperament, or any other strong cause, for it will do no good; and if any thing unpleasant occur the hellebore will get the blame of it. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
Let's face it; the man, while personable and articulate is laboring under the arrogant and false assumption that because so many people like him personally, his inexperience and general clueless won't matter. Obama's approval rating remains steady, poll says
The New York Sun's art critic wrote that Kent… knocks you off your pins with these broad, realistic, powerful representations of weltering seas, men laboring in boats, rude rocky headland and snowbound landscapes…
This is especially the case when those words simply amount to belabouring the obvious.
Those words [_especially they who labor in the word and doctrine_] are added to the former explanatively, to teach us who they are that rule well, viz. _they who labor much in the word and doctrine_, and not to distinguish them that labor in the word, from elders ruling well; as if Paul had said, "Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, greatly laboring in the word," &c. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Forsaking the books, it was pick and shovel for a year of manual labouring for the young David.
Where was the stash of brandy bottles; the hidden box of dream-smoke herb so beloved of the laboring classes; the stash of gambling winnings or record of debts; the bundle of perfumed love letters from some cozening lowborn female looking to snare a Mageborn son? Tran Siberian
We have an unorganized day-laboring center right now, spread out over many different corners of Centreville," said Alice H. Foltz, the "convener" of the Centreville Immigration Forum. Centreville town hall on day-labor work center gets ugly
The exaltation of liquor, however, appeared only to intensify his characteristics: his face became more lugubrious and melancholy; his manner more ceremonious and dignified; and, erect and stiff in his saddle from the waist upwards, but leaning from side to side with the motion of his horse, like the tall mast of some laboring sloop, he "loped" away towards the House of the Lost Mission. Maruja
Even as a young man, when he was labouring to transform wilderness into BP profit, this future hammer of papyrology found time for opera, contemporary art and visits to artists 'lofts. Why are we letting business big shots alter our society?
There are still many believers in the prophecies of Mother Shipton, but none believe more implicitly in her sayings than the labouring classes of Somerset. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
Odd little, silent creatures the children were, white-faced and white-haired, playless and grave, laboring like their elders even from the age of five or six. Darkness and Dawn
Dominic, whom he joined in laboring for the conversion of the heretics.
There had been a failure specifically to identify favourable material, but that was attributed to the difficulties under which the applicant has been labouring by reason of having been detained.
For, what great, black horse is this which, despite Carnaby's flailing whip and cruel, rowelling spur, is slowly, surely creeping up with the laboring gray? The Amateur Gentleman
The profits of £3 per year may have seemed "inconsiderable" to the report's author, but such earnings would have made a substantial contribution to a laboring family's income and may have been the only cash income earned by the family (see Chapter 2, n. Gutenber-e Help Page
Norman’s historic contribution to the practice of modern medicine arose from his discovery that two specialitiespreviously laboring in forlorn isolation — gastroenterology and psychiatry — were actually made for each other, and more effectively than ever before enabled the doctor to get right inside the patient. Archive 2009-05-01
We stayed pretty close (even had a couple more dalliances, but neither of us was laboring under any illusions that we could restart it, so it was okay).
They also repaired, refitted, and caulked ships in the harbor, laboring for a $1.00 a day for their master.
It seemed to me that there were now two areas: one was that of what you might call highbrow poetry and one could go on belabouring people writing in that field.
Nonetheless, the population explosion within the cottier and laboring class increased the aggregate dependence on the potato steadily and dramatically after the turn of the nineteenth century. Gutenber-e Help Page
Here then, plain upon this apparent arbitrarily levised trifle, this petty provincial money-token, this poor bawbee, that is, this coin not only of the very humblest order, but proverbially sordid at that, we find clearly set down, long generations ago, the whole [Page: 99] four-fold analysis and synthesis of civic life we have been above labouring for. Civics: as Applied Sociology
The woman was labouring with child.
Rose noticed from behind the bushes that the male's breathing came out in laboring rasps for air.
You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
The couple have been labouring under housing difficulties for several years.
I've been labouring over a hot stove all morning.
This is, I verily believe it, the worst used labouring people upon the face of the earth.
accreted" is what tipped me off to what i was doing. ironically, i came by the word "accreted" honestly, laboring through many synonyms until i found the perfect geological/metaphorical term. but it was so mievillian that maybe it drug the rest of the paragraph into that territory behind it. who knows. China Miévilling
The regbels labeled the labor laboring in the laboratory and lavatory.
The urban laboring man's realistic view of what was possible was shaped by the nature of eighteenth-century America.
With engine labouring, the car struggled up the hill.
The smoker has been labouring under lung disease for many years.
He felt the engine laboring, gathering speed slowly, the breakdown lane narrowing rapidly ahead.
Just before sunset the peasants quit laboring in the fields.
By labour, I mean the poor manualist, whom we properly call the labouring man, who works for himself indeed in one respect, but sometimes serves and works for wages, as a servant, or workman. The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
He's handling this part just right, it seems to me, by staking out his positions without belaboring them or taking shots at those who disagree (except, of course, for activist judges).
Both memoirs aimed for a 'feel-good' reaction rather than belabouring the comedians' poor and unprivileged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
The answer is obvious, and there's no point belaboring it.
Notches in the sides of big old stumps scattered here and there remind us today of the labouring woodsmen with bucksaws, and the wide shoes of workhorses attest to the method of delivery to the mill.
During that debate William Windham alluded to Bloomfield as an instance of the dangers consequent upon the labouring classes abandoning such traditional sports as bull and bear-baiting in favour of literature. Letter 88
The young man who said laboring was beneath his dignity finally put his pride in his pocket and got a job as a kitchen porter.
The vessel labouring very much in a heavy sea, had not a stitch of canvass on her, and her bare mast tapered into the air like a cocoa-nut tree that had been discrowned. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
Roused to frenzy by the loss of his queen, the king goes in pursuit, belabouring whomsoever he finds and meeting with mortifying adventures.
In sum, natural independence and/or communal enfranchisement upon a rent-free, unmortgaged, plot is not a condition which defines wage-laboring majorities in the post-industrial age. FROM ENCLOSURE TO FORECLOSURE �� How Today's Capitalism Ruins Society, Economy, and Environment
Although twenty per cent. of the labouring population were turned adrift in that locality, not one supernumerary was disemployed. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
Men still appear to be labouring under the misapprehension that women want hairy, muscular men.
That clerk is labouring for a promotion.
He said he didn't go into art expecting a career and figured he would be earning a living from farming, gardening, or labouring.
It's simply unhealthy and disruptive to your workflow to continue laboring throughout a designated one-hour break.
Once when they were all together, Pray, Doctor, cried he, how is it you call the malady our friend is labouring under? Chapter X. Book VIII
In the course of his account of the sojourn at Marienbad, this writer speaks of Chopin's polichinades: "He imitated then this or that famous artist, the playing of certain pupils or compatriots, belabouring the keyboard with extravagant gestures, a wild [echevele] and romantic manner, which he called aller a la chasse aux pigeons."] Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
This labouring together month upon month may lend testimony to the ethos of messianic intensity (albeit inverted backwards) oozing from ‘Taming of the Wasps’.
No point in belaboring the obvious: Writer's cross-reference tool continues to be arcane and usable only when some custom fields or macros are added to automate the process.
A 48-year-old reporter laboring away in obscurity for a tiny afternoon is no one's idea of a media bigfoot.
Many Icelandic men took laboring jobs as unskilled factory workers and woodcutters, or as dockworkers in Milwaukee when they first arrived.
We are laboring for a bright future.
Here was an innumerable multitude of people gathered together, so that they trade one upon another, in labouring to get foremost, and to come within hearing. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
But throughout the early modern period, men from the labouring poor, and women of all ranks below the gentry, were illiterate.
The home side struggled to overcome Edinburgh, but despite labouring for long periods the grit of the Irish forwards eventually saw them through.
This post is some combination of belaboring the obvious and speculating wildly about the future.
'Into the (ame ulcer, which continued to form good/«/, I poured m quantity of freih femm, which was feparated from the blood of a patitot labouring under an acute rheumaiifm, and exhibited an in - flammatory buffi I left, as in the lad experiment, a fmall quantity of/ «i, to ad as a ferroeiit« and covered it with lead. The Monthly Review
He arrived on the Belgravia in 1864, with a 15-year sentence to serve for house-breaking and worked as a woodcutter, sawyer, fencer and general labouring teamster.
Its tortured waters would writhe and convolve into huge ridges of foam, as if a new ocean were struggling for birth beneath the laboring surface. Fleetwood, Or, the Stain of Birth
The figure they had seen the night before seemed slowly and toilsomely labouring to pile the large stones one upon another, as if to form a small enclosure.
The majority are adult women workers in below-average-income families laboring in unskilled jobs, often in the retail sector.
The nummulite rock, in the vicinity of those monuments, frequently presents a conglomerate of testacea imbedded in it, which, in some positions, resemble small seeds; and Strabo imagines they were the petrified residue of the lentils brought there by the workmen, from their having been the ordinary food of the laboring classes, and of all the lower orders of Egyptians. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, accross the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand: first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
We learn how the ideas of the Ranters, Levellers and the Diggers filtered into the common-sense of this labouring class.
Criticism as "grunt work" -- laboring on behalf of works of literature because they deserve intelligent analysis -- seems to me a perfectly respectable undertaking, especially when it's paired against the kind of clownish performances Anderson tries to defend. Book Reviewing
I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy laboring – boy. Great Expectations
Boehme acquired a vocabulary of alchemistical terms which he was always labouring to turn to spiritual meaning, but which always baffled him. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
In the nineteenth century, it was the moral at the heart of a story which led to critics belabouring certain writers.
Though, forsooth, little matter was it to any man there whether Turk or Magyar was their over-lord, since to one master or another they had to pay the due tale of labouring days in the year, and hard was the livelihood that they earned for themselves on the days when they worked for themselves and their wives and children.
They spent the Middle Ages in candle-lit laboratories, laboring to brew universal elixirs and to turn base metals into gold or silver.
Who would have thought that manual labouring could be so fun?
It is that danger which Paul is thinking of when he tells the elders that by 'labouring' they 'ought to support the weak'; for by _weak_ he means not the poor, but those imperfect disciples who might be repelled or made to stumble by the sight of greed in an elder. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
His classmates were labouring with elementary algebra.
She urged upon her companion the idea of labouring in the world of fashion, appeared to attribute to her familiar relations with that mysterious realm, and wanted to know why she shouldn't stir up some of her friends down there on the Mill-dam? The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
I take the view that the moneys are not recoverable since, at the time of payment, the payer was not labouring under any mistake.
He found a blacksmith labouring at his anvil and asked directions to the house of the wine merchant, where he gave the order for a tun of the local wine to be delivered by packman to the Earl's castle in late summer.
We are unable to see the matter in the same light as our learned colleague does; to our thinking, we should be labouring under a great delusion were we to suppose "that it is quite as serious an omission not to determine the animal or vegetable nature of a ferment as it would be to confound nitrogen with hydrogen or urea with stearine. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
During this compulsatory voyage, he describes himself as affected with the most horrible sea sickness; and here his representation of a person labouring under that detestable malady was so accurate, that I almost fancied myself again in the cockpit of the Actæon, and all the terrors of the voyage across the Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
The majority are adult women workers in below-average-income families laboring in unskilled jobs, often in the retail sector.
We seem to be laboring under the naive notion that teen-age girls get pregnant after going too far with their high-school classmates.
Workers were not paid for their time at the work place when they were not actually laboring.
Among them, too, I found a great deal of superstition mixed with the Christian truths; but the difference was that the superstitions of the believers of our circle were quite unnecessary to them and were not in conformity with their lives, being merely a kind of epicurean diversion; but the superstitions of the believers among the labouring masses conformed so with their lives that it was impossible to imagine them to oneself without those superstitions, which were a necessary condition of their life. the whole life of believers in our circle was a contradiction of their faith, but the whole life of the working-folk believers was a confirmation of the meaning of life which their faith gave them. A Confession
A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside ... but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door. THE NUMBERS
At the risk of belabouring the point, let me cite just one other publication dealing with this question.
So the Kugels indulged his eccentric whim, laboring to reconstitute the Noailles vignette, down to the very last gilded bibelot. The Things Yves Loved
A silence fell upon the decks of the _Cygnet_ and upon the overfreighted boats laboring towards her. Sir Mortimer
The French phone company, like its UK rival BT, is now labouring under a mountain of debt while Vodafone is relatively ungeared.
Perhaps this is a throwback to my kitchen days when the restaurant's French chef would share an after-work bottle of red with his hard-labouring team.
Most people I know did laboring or fruit picking or waitressing.
He's spent the last 3 days (when not doing his farm labouring) damming the stream with his friends. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
The young man who said laboring was beneath his dignity finally put his pride in his pocket and got a job as a kitchen porter.
That clerk is labouring for a promotion.
A laboring man, in the open fields, probably throws off from his skin ten times the amount of perspirable matter, which is evolved from the skin of a person of sedentary pursuits. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
At 51, she breathes with real difficulty, wheezing and labouring to draw breath as we talk.
This post is some combination of belaboring the obvious and speculating wildly about the future.
I can tell members that people actually made the choice to join labouring workforces rather than go to tertiary education.
There was something common about him -- not like the labouring men, but a kind of town commonness, which is twenty times worse to my thinking; and if I didn't like him before, you may guess I didn't waste much love on him when I see poor Ellen's looks. In Homespun
Ah! she means that being in perfect liberty of spirit and enlargedness of soul, since she has no longer any selfish mixture in laboring for His glory, she will give Him the whole fruit of her breasts, and will cause Him to drink the milk with which He fills them. Song of Songs of Solomon / Explanations and Reflections having Reference to the Interior Life
For those of you still laboring in that academic vineyard, stay strong and watch your back.
The tide had reached the ship, and now the workmen labouring about the hull were ankle deep in water.
During the next week, I escaped both scolding and "belaboring The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
Rogers Park restaurant, her husband, Azim, works the kitchen, laboring over regional dishes such as mirza ghasemi, roasted eggplant stewed with tomato and garlic. Chicago Reader
Stephen Duck, however, is not the first instance of a labouring class poet in the eighteenth century.
For example, the waterfowler laboring across a muddy marsh and toting a sack of decoys has no business with a loaded gun in his hand or over his shoulder.
At 18, after a succession of labouring jobs, he joined the Zulu-language Durban newspaper Ilanga lase Natal. Lewis Nkosi obituary
She's been labouring over the same article for days.
They were doubtless labouring under the illusion that I'm a nice guy.
The music will be so loud you think someone's belabouring your whole body with a hammer.
I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong, and she denounced me for a clumsy, stupid, labouring boy. Ten Boys from Dickens
I heard an alligator flop in the water and the drawbridge opening upstream, the great cogged wheels clanking together, a boat with a deep draft laboring against the incoming tide. The Glass Rainbow
A working party from the church is labouring to make the top two floors of this house habitable for James and Lis to live in.
A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside … but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door. Flashman and the angel of the lord
Stenning was there with Fleming, a lighted blowlamp in his hand; they were labouring to get the starboard engine under way. Movie Night
As the word masses is commonly used, it suggests agglomerations of poor and underprivileged people, labouring people, proletarians, and it means nothing like that; it means simply the majority. This lights my soul on fire « Love | Peace | Ohana
The man in the front, whose Jew-looking appearance attracted attention, was endeavouring to increase the speed of the conveyance by belabouring the boney rump of the _prad_ {1} with his hat, while some of their pedestrian Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
While Goly Nassiri-Masouleh works the front of this equally homey Rogers Park restaurant, her husband, Azim, works the kitchen, laboring over regional dishes such as mirza ghasemi, roasted eggplant stewed with tomato and garlic. Chicago Reader
She turned on her radar detector and slid up to a hundred and five, riding easily, her huge engine hardly laboring as she raced through the night.
We are laboring for a bright future.
He was in his study labouring away over some old papers.
At the risk of belabouring the point, let me cite just one other publication dealing with this question.
The smoker has been labouring under lung disease for many years.
Learning how to eke out the budget and eat well without labouring over a hot wok becomes crucial once you are fending for yourself. Times, Sunday Times
Cheap indeed, for the middle and upper class excursionist, but still well out of the reach of the labouring man for whom walking was an everyday fact of life. Walking and Walking Tours
Stephen Duck, however, is not the first instance of a labouring class poet in the eighteenth century.
This year we are labouring to establish a church library program of 45-50 titles for pastors and churches in the Hispanic world.
They're laboring to depict one man's ultimate nightmare through special effects bells and whistles, through laytex, CGI and all manner of postproduction gimcrackery when this character has already survived his ultimate nightmare - watching his young daughter die slowly of an inoperable disease. Stay scared
T.e spectacle Butch Brewster beheld was indeed one to paralyze that pachydermic collegian, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., the sunny-souled, irrepressible Senior, danced madly about on the tiger-skin rug in midfloor, evidently laboring under the delusion that he was a lunatical Hottentot at T. Haviland Hicks Senior
Cities grew rapidly, a large labouring class developed.
Laboring under this serious doubt, when I came on the stand and found my name enrolled among the orators and statesmen present, and saw that I was booked to make a speech, I appealed to a learned and most eloquent attorney to represent me on this occasion. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
Hence persons laboring under pneumonia or pleurisy are not necessarily empyemics, but when these diseases progress to such a point that blood and sanies are expectorated and the lung is infected, that is when the ulceration of the lungs fails to heal and corruption and infection occur, the disease becomes empima, and is with difficulty, or never cured. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
MOSCOW AP A Russian icebreaker is laboring through howling winds and heavy snow as it tries to reach icebound ships in the Sea of Okhotsk where more than 500 seamen are trapped. 500 seamen stranded in icebound Russian ships
He arrived on the Belgravia in 1864, with a 15-year sentence to serve for house-breaking and worked as a woodcutter, sawyer, fencer and general labouring teamster.
Despite the cruel rule of the feudal serfdom, Tibetan laboring people never ceased their resistance struggles.
That in some countries the laboring poor were called freemen, in others they were called slaves: but that the difference as to the state was imaginary only. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
Too pained, too drunk to turn up to his labouring jobs, he dips into the $4,000 he had saved to buy her a diamond ring.
Pension plans exist because the first couple of centuries after the feudal system died demonstrated to Western society that not everyone could get rich on their own, that class-based capitalism could not give everyone the prospect of a prosperous and peaceful old age, and something else was needed to give laboring classes a stake in society. 30 years of work and then a pension is the promise capitalism makes to the factory workers, the civil service, the servants, the janitors, the bricklayers, the soldiers. Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem
Yes, I was going to add something about the verb infinitive trocar, but it just seemed that I would have been belaboring the point. Trueque
A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
The millionaires of the world, so called "aristocracies," and the taxes imposed by sovereign states to liquidate obligations more frequently contracted to enslave than to ameliorate the conditions of mankind, are a constant drain which comes ultimately out of the laboring classes in every case. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
I watched him labouring with all the wisdom of an old man and the blithesomeness of a young one. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
Silk fabrics were not, like cotton cloth, the normal wear of the labouring classes.
However, separately backing up my Eudora and Palm data is a small inconvenience compared to the peace of mind this device brings â€ ¦ especially on days when my laptop sounds like itâ€ ™ s laboring and may crash and burn at any minute. win a Clickfree HD801 device*? Boston Mamas
But despite this shift away from the dopey antics of Cheech & Chong, the media persists in belaboring all of the older marijuana stereotypes. Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition
Cheng said they would often look for menial work in restaurants or labouring work around the city.
The laissez-faire philosophy of competitive capitalism translated into untold misery for the laboring classes in industrial cities.
The smoker has been labouring under lung disease for many years.
Western diplomacy needs to win the support of people labouring under oppressive regimes. Times, Sunday Times
Another ludicrous view of this subject, is the zeal with which so many women are laboring to hoist all mandom into power over them. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
Maybe those laboring to regenerate and vivify landscapes and to thicken the human/nature drama are quixotic deer-like souls.
The woman was labouring with child.
[A bothy is a cottage or hut where labouring servants are lodged, and is sometimes built of wood, as we read in the _Jacobite Relics_, ii. Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
He also tried his hand at a whole range of labouring work, before setting up business as a relief milker.
The grunts and muttered curses that penetrated to the patio from outside, along the back of the house, where Graham was labouring to fit new plastic guttering, were going on far too late in the evening.
And during a work detail in excruciating heat, he discovered a water pipe from which he lapped a pitiful drop or two without sharing it with a cleric laboring nearby.
The music will be so loud you think someone's belabouring your whole body with a hammer.
The labouring hunter tufts the thick unbarbed grounds Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
The young man who said laboring was beneath his dignity finally put his pride in his pocket and got a job as a kitchen porter.
a store; the owner of which, a sallow Yankee, with a large pluffy cigaretto in his mouth, was labouring away in his shirt sleeves. California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts
See how the ball travels as if labouring through a shagpile rug. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
But what she did say was that she was flying to Australia soon, where she was hoping to get farm labouring work. Times, Sunday Times
He, most considerate of roadmen, crowded a woman in a flivver, passed a laboring car on an upgrade with such a burst that the uneasy driver bumped off into a ditch. Free Air
In fact, they considered convicts to be only a more expensive kind of labouring cattle, and on account of their not being able to live upon grass, a trifle less worthy than working bullocks. Ralph Rashleigh
Does it ever make you cry to think of us labouring away for so little reward, while you shamelessly enjoy the fruits of our work, sitting in your comfy chair, with your la-di-da central heating and your bottomless bag of Tostitos?
They Open Up waste-land, till the fields, grow vegetables and raise pigs to lighten the people of their burden and to develop industriousness, which is the true mark of the labouring people. Achievements of Mao Tse Tung
Now that bulimy is not hunger but a faintness, is manifest from all laboring beasts, which are seized with it very often through the smell of dry figs and apples; for a smell does not cause any want of food, but rather a pain and agitation in the stomach. Essays and Miscellanies
I could see the bus labouring up the steep, windy road.
JunoFest organizers have been busy like honey maddened bees labouring to bring you, faithful reader, the music you deserve.
The cartoon showed two prisoners laboring in the Gulag.
He's handling this part just right, it seems to me, by staking out his positions without belaboring them or taking shots at those who disagree (except, of course, for activist judges).
At the same moment, he wirelessed Canopus, laboring up the coast 250 miles to the south, “I am going to attack the enemy now.” Castles of Steel
Next they turned the clock back even further to the 1960s, in belaboring the Bill Ayers/Weather Underground connection, and now they’re all the way back in the Cold War with accusations of socialism! History Rears Up To Spit In Your Face | ATTACKERMAN
But Taglioni's discontent impelled her to spend every spare moment whirling on her big toe, practicing her entrechat, or laboring over the art of smiling, naturally, with aching toes, aching back, aching thighs, and solar plexus almost exhausted from the unnatural strain. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
Its arteries are choked with traffic, lungs corroded by pollutants, throat parched with thirst, and body labouring under a weight its heart cannot sustain.
Labouring men would have been baffled by talk of stress.
The elderly poet chased the young man, belabouring him round the shoulders with a walking stick.
He spent his days in labouring among people upon whom he sometimes fancied he had obtained no hold. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
Or an occasional sigh from the laboring heart of the Captain.
Many Icelandic men took laboring jobs as unskilled factory workers and woodcutters, or as dockworkers in Milwaukee when they first arrived.
While Goly Nassiri-Masouleh works the front of the house, her husband, Azim, works the kitchen, laboring over regional dishes such as mirza ghasemi, roasted eggplant stewed with tomato and garlic. Chicago Reader
Wealthy parents, seeing little peasant boys and girls playing about in the open air only half-clothed, and joining with this fact the general healthiness of labouring people, draw the unwarrantable conclusion that the healthiness is the result of the exposure, and resolve to keep their own offspring scantily covered! Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
If a person laboring under a fever, without any swelling in the fauces, be seized with a sense of suffocation suddenly, it is a mortal symptom. Aphorisms
the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
She rested now and then under the shade of the cypresses and watched other tourists labouring in the heat.
But those very wonders are also symbols of oppressive and overbearing states that could coerce hundreds of thousands to spend their lives laboring on projects erected to enhance the ruling class.
But I do think the way it's being handled is awfully heavy-handed, not so much an insult to the intelligence as it is unnecessarily obvious, with Dexter's voice-overs underscoring and belaboring what is already so clear. Ask Matt: Walking Dead, Homeland, Terra Nova, Dexter and More!
Silk fabrics were not, like cotton cloth, the normal wear of the labouring classes.
[6] A fellah is a peasant, one of the labouring class, just above the slave. Ancient Egypt
The labouring people tried their best to dam the river.
The country is labouring under huge debts. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the obvious laboring of the heavy engines, the towboat was barely making one knot forward speed. A WOMAN WITHOUT LIES
The young man is tired of labouring after wealth.
I sympathize with all those who in other days, laboring for an isthmian canal, had but one star to guide them– Nicaragua–and who must now naturally feel like giving up an old friend to pass it by. The Path Between the Seas
Yes, I was going to add something about the verb infinitive trocar, but it just seemed that I would have been belaboring the point. Trueque
Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence. Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything
The past year has been a boon for corporate profits, but now a laboring U.S. economy and burdened consumers mean companies with strong international operations, particularly in vibrant Asian economies, will have a marked advantage over those with limited business overseas. Firms Get More Profits Outside U.S.
They employ also a great number of manufacturers and tradesmen, and lastly the class of laboring husbandmen.
Most of us are laboring under the misguided notion that focusing on all the possible things that could go wrong or might blow up in our faces is the most effective hyper-vigilant strategy to ensure that all the things we do want (which, by the way, are getting precious little of our attention) will infallibly come to us. Vaishali: Self-Awareness: The Key to Owning and Operating the Human Experience
The difference between the East and the West is a difference between the nonspeaking but laboring hands of the East and the expressive and affective culture of the West.
This is especially the case when those words simply amount to belabouring the obvious.
In the nineteenth century, it was the moral at the heart of a story which led to critics belabouring certain writers.
Industrial growth over this period meant that a labouring class became an economic necessity for national wealth. Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
As Fred was the "pigmy" of the party his efforts were ridiculous, but they nevertheless served to remove a part of the tension under which all were laboring. The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine
More damningly, the education system has been labouring under this misapprehension too. The Sun
Miss Johnson clearly enjoyed meeting labouring-class poets: see Letter 75 for the anecdote she told Bloomfield about breakfasting with Burns. Letter 91
If it weren't for her, we wouldn't be laboring over this stupid play like this, and if it weren't for her, I wouldn't have to beg my best friend and drool over the same guy every other girl drooled over.
Dogs are not generally apt to revenge injuries inflicted upon them by their masters; but Mr. Sikes's dog, having faults of temper in common with his owner, and labouring, perhaps, at this moment, under a powerful sense of injury, made no more ado but at once fixed his teeth in one of the half-boots.
But Lovelace, without belaboring the point, also gives her a lesson or two. Growing Pangs
Sorry to labour the point, but it's worth labouring. Times, Sunday Times
The labouring people are all black -- if these blacks can be called a labouring people. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.
It is worthy of remark, that in choosing his disciples he chose plain men from the laboring classes, who had lived the most obediently to the simple, unperverted laws of nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
Francis Lendacky)The Latin word "catena" means "chain" and it is this prayer the only one every Legionary is obliged to recite daily) which binds together the Legionaries, who, though part of one army, are scattered all over the world labouring in a multitude of vineyards. The Great Lady Herself! Mrs Maggie O'Rourke 40 years taking children & adults to Lourdes!
I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy labouring-boy. Great Expectations
Barrow was positively obsequious to me until he learnt that I too was the son of a labouring man.
The mountain side, as he well knew, was thickly strewn with dry branches, dead limbs, uprooted trees and all manner of combustible material, and the very warriors who, when around their own "rancheria," would have disdained doing a stroke of work of any kind, were now laboring like so many beavers to add to the great pile that was already almost on a level with the breastwork and not more than eight feet away. Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land
The abolitionists have been labouring for the last fifteen years, in season and out of season, in the midst of obloquy and reproach, in the midst of mobs and various kinds of opposition, to establish the conviction that slave-holding is a sin, and that the slaveholder is a sinner, and ought to be treated as such. Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.
In the bush, labouring as a mark of social inferiority disappeared.
They conclude that military service temporarily removed the young, labouring men who dominated the criminal orders, only to return them, duly brutalised, at the war's end.
To most men the production, twice a week, of a newspaper so wide in scope as the _Covent Garden Journal_ (for its columns included the news of the day, as well as the manifold 'censorial' energies of _Sir Alexander_) would have been occupation enough; especially with a "constitution now greatly impaired and enfeebled," and when "labouring under attacks of the gout, which were, of course, severer than ever. Henry Fielding: a Memoir
Satisfied with labouring faithfully in his vocation, the good man committed his cause to God, and found, in the refreshing recollections of self-satisfaction, and in the calm repose that followed a harassing day, spent in the performance of his manifold duties, a reward which might be termed a foretaste of heaven. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
Relatively little attention has been paid to the origins of labouring class poetry.
He was physically strong, worked hard at labouring jobs or driving, and played hard too.
The young man who said laboring was beneath his dignity finally put his pride in his pocket and got a job as a kitchen porter.
Or does mere public belabouring sometimes debase the very virtues intended for promotion and inoculate public sentiment against subscription?
Persons laboring under phrenitis and causus were particularly disposed to coma; but also in all other great diseases which occurred along with fever. Of The Epidemics
Through a kind of alchemist's magic, the same sort of engine that was laboring to hold up the Boeing model could produce a comfortable margin of lifting power for Lockheed Martin. Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane
The elderly poet chased the young man, belabouring him round the shoulders with a walking stick.
Finally, it is noteworthy that caregiver preferences may to a large extent dictate the use of epidurals and other medical procedures for laboring women.
You see, rather than laboring to make the bouilli in advance of meal service, a cook-friendly version became the mainstay.
When one of us is labouring over a difficult job it affects the whole household.
Turning it over, I notice the slight tracks of insects, perhaps the work of a borer or laboring ant.
The previous two or three centuries had been remarkably stable on the part of the laboring classes but the 14th century began to witness numerous peasant and urban revolts against the oppression of the propertied classes.
By the scores, they lift off on laboring wingbeats and turn toward land, soaring like slender sailplanes over the rugged basaltic cliffline, then banking low to swell the ranks of those already on the ground.
They employ also a great number of manufacturers and tradesmen, and lastly the class of laboring husbandmen. “Coarsening.” - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
There was a reason why William Jennings Bryan rallied millions behind his presidential campaign in 1896 when he campaigned against what he saw as the Republican plutocrats with his slogan that “you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold” Although technically a speech for bimetallism, the slogan reverberated though the west, the laboring class, and poor farmers. Failure of Economics and the Market System? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
He's still labouring under the impression that he's written a great book.
Described as ‘roads’ by fur traders, these trails were further rutted by the dragging of lodge poles and numerous travois behind laboring horses.
It seemed to me that there were now two areas: one was that of what you might call highbrow poetry and one could go on belabouring people writing in that field.
Laboring over every jot and tittle - the life work of our paper-pushing peace processors - is quite mad.
We believe emotional support is an essential ingredient for every laboring woman.
They employ also a great number of manufacturers and tradesmen, and lastly the class of laboring husbandmen.
Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence. Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything
Sometimes during war the seignior's wife and daughters were reduced to plowing in the fields and laboring with the women servants at the harvest; but ordinarily the life at the seigniory was a life of petty grandeur, with such style as the backwoods afforded. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

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