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1  Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and those who served in the cooking rooms.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  This time Jurgis was bound for the "Bridewell," a petty jail where Cook County prisoners serve their time.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
3  A pair of military trousers, light blue with a yellow stripe, serve to give that suggestion of authority proper to the leader of a band.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
4  He would begin to serve your guests out of a keg that was half full, and finish with one that was half empty, and then you would be charged for two kegs of beer.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
5  All the year round they had been serving as cogs in the great packing machine; and now was the time for the renovating of it, and the replacing of damaged parts.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  He would agree to serve a certain quality at a certain price, and when the time came you and your friends would be drinking some horrible poison that could not be described.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
7  And even in the exercise of this privilege he was not left unprotected; a good part of the inadequate police force of Chicago was suddenly diverted from its work of hunting criminals, and rushed out to serve him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
8  As for the poor office employees, they did their best, moved to it by terror; thirty of them had been "fired" in a bunch that first morning for refusing to serve, besides a number of women clerks and typewriters who had declined to act as waitresses.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
9  If he had been able to buy all of the newspapers of the United States the next morning, he might have discovered that his beer-hunting exploit was being perused by some two score millions of people, and had served as a text for editorials in half the staid and solemn business-men's newspapers in the land.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
10  In addition, because he had a family of eight children to support and his earnings were not enough, on Saturdays and Sundays he served as a watchman; he was required to press two buttons at opposite ends of a building every five minutes, and as the walk only took him two minutes, he had three minutes to study between each trip.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20