Quotes About Day-labourer

king of a large and fruitful territory there feeds, lodges, and is clad worse than a day-labourer in England.

Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow; he had good strength to work at times; but the times could not be relied on to coincide with the hours of requirement; and, having been unaccustomed to the regular toil of the day-labourer, he was not particularly persistent when they did so coincide.