| The voices and laughs of the workfolk eating and drinking under the rick came to her as if they were a quarter of a mile off. |
| Tess waited outside the door of the farmhouse till the group of workfolk had received their wages, and then Marian introduced her. |
| The other workfolk were by this time all gathered under the rick, where the loose straw formed a comfortable retreat. |
| But the act of the Lancashire workfolk was done in cold blood, and in defiance of every natural impulse. |
