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Working-day

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Work´ing-day
a.1.Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
O, how full of briers in this working-day world.
- Shak.
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I was quite as dejected on the first working-day of my apprenticeship as in that after-time; but I am glad to know that I never breathed a murmur to Joe while my indentures lasted.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
He hurried on across the Chase, stalking along the narrow paths between the fern, with Gyp at his heels, not lingering to watch the magnificent changes of the light--hardly once thinking of it--yet feeling its presence in a certain calm happy awe which mingled itself with his busy working-day thoughts.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
The working-day faces come nearer to the truth, and let it out more plainly.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
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