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1  I was judged fit by the reverend Father-General to go and work in this vineyard.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XV
2  I have sometimes asked learned men whether they were not as weary as I of that work.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXV
3  At length he made choice of a poor man of letters, who had worked ten years for the booksellers of Amsterdam.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XIX
4  Cacambo, who worked in the garden, and took vegetables for sale to Constantinople, was fatigued with hard work, and cursed his destiny.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXX
5  Cacambo, who worked in the garden, and took vegetables for sale to Constantinople, was fatigued with hard work, and cursed his destiny.
Candide By Voltaire
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6  Cunegonde was, indeed, very ugly, but she became an excellent pastry cook; Paquette worked at embroidery; the old woman looked after the linen.
Candide By Voltaire
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7  Three thousand good mathematicians went to work; it was ready in fifteen days, and did not cost more than twenty million sterling in the specie of that country.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XVIII
8  When we work at the sugar-canes, and the mill snatches hold of a finger, they cut off the hand; and when we attempt to run away, they cut off the leg; both cases have happened to me.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XIX