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Day-laborer

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Day´-la`bor`er
n.1.One who works by the day; - usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade.


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In my day, in my own country, this money was collected from imposts, and the citizen imagined that the foreign importer paid it, and it made him comfortable to think so; whereas, in fact, it was paid by the American people, and was so equally and exactly distributed among them that the annual cost to the 100-millionaire and the annual cost to the sucking child of the day-laborer was pre- cisely the same -- each paid $6.
Moss, deprecatingly; "I know there isn't a day-laborer works harder.
The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world.
 
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