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A somewhat smaller group of 10 to 20 per cent worked either as a servant or, later in their lives, as a daylabourer.
The street vendor had purchased the cards from a sailor for 20 francs each, who had, in turn, purchased them from a daylabourer for 15 francs apiece.
Arrived in the city, he obtained the names of all the harlots, and then hired himself as a daylabourer.
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He had been making money at something like the rate of a daylabourer.
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There he had begun by working as help to a gold-digger, as a daylabourer, in the sweat of his brow.
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Not one of them was written for an artist who had been forced by hard luck to turn into a daylabourer.
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He paid his way in part through college with money he earned as a daylabourer on farms during the summer.
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The work closes earlier, that is, so far as the daylabourer is concerned, for he gets the best of this as of other things.
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