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Six example sentences with labouring, each labelled with its topic.
Census takers listed most of the village as labouring families who worked another man's fields from dawn until dusk.
Economics
Millet painted labouring figures bent over a stubble field, and Paris critics called the subject too plain for a gallery.
Art
The cathedral records name every labouring crew that hauled stone up the river through eleven winters.
Architecture
Tax rolls listed the labouring poor separately, since they owned no land and hired themselves out by the day.
History
Dickens fills his novels with labouring families whose children carry coal before they learn to read.
Literature
The new party drew its first votes from labouring districts, where the docks and the brickworks employed nearly everyone.
Politics
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