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1  If the men were taken back "without discrimination," he would lose his present place.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
2  In the corridors and caverns where it was done you might lose yourself as in the great caves of Kentucky.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
3  Generally, however, this harmless question would only make his fellow workingmen lose their tempers and call him a fool.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
4  Their delight at discovering that they were to get out of this adventure without losing another share of their possessions it would not be possible to describe.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
5  Ona was scarcely able to stand with exhaustion; but if she were to lose her place they would be ruined, and she would surely lose it if she were not on time that day.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  Here were crops that men had worked for three or four months to prepare, and of which they would lose nearly all unless they could find others to help them for a week or two.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
7  His assailant had hit him too hard, and he was suffering from concussion of the brain; and also he had been half-frozen when found, and would lose three fingers on his right hand.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
8  And all the men of the same rank were pitted against each other; the accounts of each were kept separately, and every man lived in terror of losing his job, if another made a better record than he.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
9  Jurgis has drunk a great deal, as any one naturally would on an occasion when it all has to be paid for, whether it is drunk or not; but he is a very steady man, and does not easily lose his temper.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
10  They were not going to lose all caste, even if they had come to be unskilled laborers in Packingtown; and that Ona had even talked of omitting a veselija was enough to keep her stepmother lying awake all night.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
11  As these all contained alcohol, or some other stimulant, she found that they all did her good while she took them; and so she was always chasing the phantom of good health, and losing it because she was too poor to continue.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
12  In the forests, all summer long, the branches of the trees do battle for light, and some of them lose and die; and then come the raging blasts, and the storms of snow and hail, and strew the ground with these weaker branches.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
13  He let her cry away her tears; and then, because it was nearly eight o'clock, and they would lose another hour if they delayed, he left her at the packing house door, with her ghastly white face and her haunted eyes of terror.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
14  There could be no trifling in a case like this, it was a matter of life and death; little Stanislovas could not be expected to realize that he might a great deal better freeze in the snowdrift than lose his job at the lard machine.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
15  At the end of this hog's progress every inch of the carcass had been gone over several times; and then it was rolled into the chilling room, where it stayed for twenty-four hours, and where a stranger might lose himself in a forest of freezing hogs.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
16  He did not drink or fight, because he was thinking all the time of Ona; and for the rest, he was a quiet, steady man, who did what he was told to, did not lose his temper often, and when he did lose it made the offender anxious that he should not lose it again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
17  They knew, as an abstract proposition, that in matters of business all men are to be accounted liars; but they could not but have been influenced by all they had heard from the eloquent agent, and were quite persuaded that the house was something they had run a risk of losing by their delay.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
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