Theodore Dreiser was shown adopting the guise of a common workman building his newest and biggest novel from bricks and mortar.

What would a common workman carry but his knife for all purposes?

He knew the look of his gait; introversion and constant self-evaluation are integral adjuncts to the urbanites' mental machinery; he felt humiliation and fury: he, Bo Histledine, Big Bo the Boodlesnatch, hunching along like a common workman!

There were at least three-quarters of a million people living in the Haitian capital, and no good reason why a national policeman should know a common workman who was passing by a warehouse when the place went up in flames.

That's a place o' trust, and thee't above a common workman now.

He was garbed in the clothing of a common workman, consisting of a mere loincloth and sandals, and a cheap vest whose small pockets jingled when he ran.

At present we have a provisional Government, consisting of Odion [SIC] Barrot, Lamartine, Marast, and some others; among them a common workman, but very intelligent.

This fellow was middle-aged and of impressive bearing, though garbed in the clothing of a common workman, a mere loincloth, cheap vest, and sandals.

None were so fine this high as they would be lower down, but a common workman would gawk.

You will grow up a common workman.