1833 J. H. Newman Lyra Apost. iv. iv, in 4 266 O Comrade bold of toil and pain! Thy trial how severe, When severed first by prisoner's chain From thy loved labour-sphere.
1903 24 Oct. 13/5 A straw vote taken along the water front the other day, gave Schmitz the astounding total of 305 out of 32—this, however, being in almost a strictly labor sphere.
2002 M. Hopkins vii. 187 The poor quality of data and conceptualization in the labour sphere.