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    labouring


    1. a sea of labouring skin, waiting for her,


    2. recently topped up by several months of farm labouring – and


    3. Mickey worked the farms, milking and labouring, while Ted steamed forward on the light entertainment express to Eastbourne, Morecambe and Scarborough


    4. He spent his working life doing general labouring jobs only when he needed money: a twenty first century swagman


    5. In the price of corn, for example, one part pays the rent of the landlord, another pays the wages or maintenance of the labourers and labouring cattle employed in producing it, and the third pays the profit of the farmer


    6. A fourth part, it may perhaps be thought is necessary for replacing the stock of the farmer, or for compensating the wear and tear of his labouring cattle, and other instruments of husbandry


    7. But it must be considered, that the price of any instrument of husbandry, such as a labouring horse, is itself made up of the same time parts ; the rent of the land upon which he is reared, the labour of tending and rearing him, and the profits of the farmer, who advances both the rent of this land, and the wages of this labour


    8. In a fertile country, which had before been much depopulated, where subsistence, consequently, should not be very difficult, and where, notwithstanding, three or four hundred thousand people die of hunger in one year, we maybe assured that the funds destined for the maintenance of the labouring poor are fast decaying


    9. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition, that they are going fast backwards


    10. If, in these places, therefore, the labouring poor can maintain their families in dear years, they must be at their ease in times of moderate plenty, and in affluence in those of extraordinary cheapness

    11. These, and most other things which are sold by retail, the way in which the labouring poor buy all things, are generally fully as cheap, or cheaper, in great towns than in the remoter parts of the country, for reasons which I shall have occasion to explain hereafter


    12. If the labouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in those parts of the kingdom where the price of labour is lowest, they must be in affluence where it is highest


    13. If the labouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in the one part of the united kingdom, they must be in affluence in the other


    14. If the labouring poor, therefore, could bring up their families then, they must be much more at their ease now


    15. The quantity of these, however, which the labouring poor an under any necessity of consuming, is so very small, that the increase in their price does not compensate the diminution in that of so many other things


    16. The common complaint, that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people, and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food, clothing, and lodging, which satisfied them in former times, may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only, but its real recompence, which has augmented


    17. It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable


    18. Farmers, upon such occasions, expect more profit from their corn by maintaining a few more labouring servants, than by selling it at a low price in the market


    19. ‘What about labouring – surely you could always use


    20. In some parts of Lancashire, it is pretended, I have been told, that bread of oatmeal is a heartier food for labouring people than wheaten bread, and 1 have frequently heard the same doctrine held in Scotland

    21. In France, and even in Scotland, where labour is somewhat better rewarded than in France, the labouring poor seldom eat butcher's meat, except upon holidays, and other extraordinary occasions


    22. This is the state of the greater part of the labouring poor in all countries


    23. That part of the capital of the farmer which is employed in the instruments of agriculture is a fixed, that which is employed in the wages and maintenance of his labouring servants is a circulating capital


    24. The price or value of his labouring cattle is a fixed capital, in the same manner as that of the instruments of husbandry; their maintenance is a circulating capital, in the same manner as that of the labouring servants


    25. The farmer makes his profit by keeping the labouring cattle, and by parting with their maintenance


    26. are in the most perfect good order, the same number of labourers and labouring cattle will raise a much greater produce, than in one of equal extent and equally good ground, but not furnished with equal conveniencies


    27. Not only his labouring servants, but his labouring cattle, are productive labourers


    28. The labourers and labouring cattle, therefore, employed in agriculture, not only occasion, like the workmen in manufactures, the reproduction of a value equal to their own consumption, or to the capital which employs them, together with its owner's profits, but of a much greater value


    29. So very heavy a tax upon the first necessary of life-must either reduce the subsistence of the labouring poor, or it must occasion some augmentation in their pecuniary wages, proportionable to that in the pecuniary price of their subsistence


    30. So far as it operates in the one way, it must reduce the ability of the labouring poor to educate and bring up their children, and must, so far, tend to restrain the population of the country

    31. The demand of such countries for corn may frequently become so great and so urgent, that a small state in their neighbourhood, which happened at the same time to be labouring under some degree of dearth, could not venture to supply them without exposing itself to the like dreadful calamity


    32. "Settle down, Hermes," Mr Snickerty told the dog absently, falsely labouring under the impression that the creature was all of a dither at his return


    33. But in every improved and civilized society, this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it


    34. Taxes upon necessaries, so far as they affect the labouring poor, are finally paid, partly by landlords, in the diminished rent of their lands, and partly by rich consumers, whether landlords or others, in the advanced price of manufactured goods; and always with a considerable overcharge


    35. labouring most intensively over the last week


    36. ” Rosie’s breathing was now coming in short gasps labouring to inflate her lungs and she stopped for a moment as I said to her


    37. The labouring poor would thus be enabled to live better, to work cheaper, and to send their goods cheaper to market


    38. This increase in the demand for labour would both increase the numbers, and improve the circumstances of the labouring poor


    39. So few wagons had been shipped that there was no transportation for their effects, and as regiment after regiment was rushed to the front, the men, labouring in the sweltering heat, discarded articles mile by mile, until they had nothing but the clothes they stood upright in, and the route of the advance resembled the trail of a retreating army


    40. These men, labouring steadily through the

    41. Would those labouring men out in the thorny veld appreciate the meaning of these cookies I was baking to send them? Did they even want them? But what else was there for me to do except enact, alone, the rituals embedded in me?


    42. 12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep


    43. sons of Joda the son of Eliadun, with their sons and brothers, all Levites, with one accord setters forward of the business, labouring to


    44. particular, and labouring to follow the rules of an abridgement


    45. was trying to be quiet and receptive, rather than labouring for


    46. speaker was labouring under a certain strain, were accompanied by a half smile that robbed them of any offence that might otherwise have been present


    47. 58 And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord; Then stood up Jesus and his sons and brothers and Cadmiel his brother and the sons of Madiabun with the sons of Joda the son of Eliadun with their sons and brothers all Levites with one accord setters forward of the business labouring to advance the works in the house of God


    48. 26 Therefore to us that have taken on us this painful labour of abridging it was not easy but a matter of sweat and watching; 27 Even as it is no ease to him who prepares a banquet and seeks the benefit of others; yet for the pleasuring of many we will undertake gladly this great pains; 28 Leaving to the author the exact handling of every particular and labouring to follow the rules of an abridgement


    49. 30 To stand on every point and go over things at large and to be curious in particulars belongs to the first author of the story: 31 But to use brevity and avoid much labouring of the work is to be granted to him who will make an abridgment


    50. 11Therefore the King of Egypt rose up against them and dealt subtilly with them and brought them low with labouring in brick and made them slaves













































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    Synonyms for "labouring"

    drudging laboring labouring toiling

    "labouring" definitions

    doing arduous or unpleasant work