Which preposition to use with workman

in Occurrences 94%

There were armies of workmen in every direction and carts and camions loaded with cases making their way with difficulty through the mud.

of Occurrences 82%

" They left their packs just inside the door of the log-cabin, indicated as "Bunk House for the men on No. 6, Above"a fearsome place, where, on shelf above shelf, among long unwashed bedclothes, the unwashed workmen of a prosperous company lay in the stupor of sore fatigue and semi-asphyxiation.

from Occurrences 34%

The chase was kept up until we came within three miles of the end of the railroad track, where two companies of soldiers were stationed for the purpose of protecting the workmen from the Indians.

at Occurrences 31%

While he was thus engaged we learned from one of our hired workmen at home, that the pro-slavery men had laid another plan to kill him, and were on their way to Grasshopper Falls to carry out their intention.

for Occurrences 15%

How the country tradesmen swore, when he called them 'a pack of dilatory jobbers,' and announced his intention of employing only London workmen for his improvements.

on Occurrences 14%

Any one of the workmen on the farm would have finished it in a day's work.

to Occurrences 14%

" APPEAL BY BELGIAN WORKMEN 800,000 copies of this pamphlet had already been sent out when the world rang with the tragic appeal of the Belgian workmen to their brother workers in other lands.

with Occurrences 10%

The workman with a jerk forces the stone that serves for hammer down upon the auriferous rock, and allows it to be again carried upwards by the elasticity of the young tree.

by Occurrences 9%

You may easily know this little workman by his chips.

into Occurrences 7%

Within a few years of this period the art had been carried by the scattered German workmen into Italy, France, Spain, and Switzerland; and before the close of the fifteenth century it was practised in more than two hundred twenty different places.

under Occurrences 6%

Nay, if all things go well, I may become a master, and have apprentices and workmen under me.

as Occurrences 4%

On the one hand, it destroyed the position of the workman as a self-sufficing industrial unit, and made him dependent on a capitalist for employment and the means of supporting life.

against Occurrences 2%

There is a deep sense not only of discontent, but of anger and revolt among the workmen against pre-war conditions.

out Occurrences 2%

This must throw some of the workmen out of employment and create a new bargaining situation for wages.

over Occurrences 2%

Soon he heard the beaver workmen over him.

throughout Occurrences 2%

such was the cry that resounded from the affrighted workmen throughout the mine.

within Occurrences 1%

Hope and energy were alike aroused by so vigorous a measure; and thus the people ceased to murmur, and were ready to acknowledge that the King had indeed begun to verify his celebrated declaration that "if he were spared, there should not exist a workman within his realm who was not enabled to cook a fowl upon the Sunday."

after Occurrences 1%

In groups of from ten to thirty the scattered aggregation made its way to Sterling and mingled with the workmen after hours.

like Occurrences 1%

Even the few rare ones who have worked nobly for my race were powerless to choose workmen like themselves.

than Occurrences 1%

His ability consists simply in the fact that he can get more work at a cheaper rate out of the poorer workmen than the manager of a large firm.

about Occurrences 1%

The casual mention of his "Old Sergeant Cornelius," whom he happened to want as a workman about his grounds at Mount Vernon, is the sole reference that could wake up the mind to his having had anything to do with the Revolution.

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