Lanterns may be moving in the cowyards and stables; but elsewhere all is quiet-the hedger and Ditcher cannot see to strike his blow, the ploughs have ceased to move for some time, the labourer's workshop-the field-is not lighted by gas as the rooms of cities.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
No, Silverbridge;-I said no such thing; but that if he were a hedger and Ditcher the bread and cheese and onions would be as good.
"The Duke's Children"
Anthony Trollope
"Proby was a Ditcher I know, when he went right through into one of the dykes.
"The Duke's Children"
Anthony Trollope