1 At any rate he sat at his desk all day, giving every appearance of industry, for he wished to be on equal terms with his respectable fellow townsmen who worked and worked hard.
2 But he was prompt to perceive that the general dulness of the season afforded him an unusual opportunity to shine, and he set about with patient industry to form a background for his growing glory.
3 Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
4 Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic hours, is his wonderful patience of industry.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She... 5 Folks respected her industry and tried to treat her as if nothing had happened.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 6 Afterward they went outside, wandering about among the mazes of buildings in which was done the work auxiliary to this great industry.
7 And then there was the condemned meat industry, with its endless horrors.
8 It had forced the price of cattle so low as to destroy the stock-raising industry, an occupation upon which whole states existed; it had ruined thousands of butchers who had refused to handle its products.
9 Adams had been a cotton operative in Fall River, and the continued depression in the industry had worn him and his family out, and he had emigrated to South Carolina.
10 The workers were simply the citizens of industry, and the Socialist movement was the expression of their will to survive.
11 The industry and movements of the rider were not less remarkable than those of the ridden.
12 By industry and care, you might thus come to some prefarment; for by this time, I should think, your eyes would plainly tell you that a carrion crow is a better bird than a mocking-thresher.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 13 Chingachgook and Uncas profited by the interval to regain their wind, though Duncan continued to work with the most persevering industry.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 14 Under the cover of these natural advantages, they toiled their way, with patient industry, until the scout pronounced that he believed it would be safe once more to land.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 15 The sticks were removed, and the stones lifted; for Indian cunning was known frequently to adopt these objects as covers, laboring with the utmost patience and industry, to conceal each footstep as they proceeded.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21