1 Someone had to nurse him and that meant one less worker at the business of fence building, hoeing, weeding and plowing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 2 And so he had leisure to muse on all its exquisite details, as a hard worker, on a holiday morning, might lie still and watch the beam of light travel gradually across his room.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 14 3 He's a worker, all right, ma'm, and he's got some ketch-on about him; but he's a mean one.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X 4 Old Antanas had been a worker ever since he was a child; he had run away from home when he was twelve, because his father beat him for trying to learn to read.
5 He was introduced by his friend to an Irishman named "Buck" Halloran, who was a political "worker" and on the inside of things.
6 The work was clumsy, the worker cross.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT 7 A force composed of earth and heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than extraordinary vicissitudes.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 8 Let not a single worker remain inactive here.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY 9 The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In V 10 Mr. Bedford consented to become one of the trustees of the school, and in that capacity, and as a worker for it, he has been connected with it for eighteen years.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter X. 11 And I hear he is a good worker, too.
12 The worker recognized Clym, and Yeobright learnt from the voice that the speaker was Humphrey.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 13 As he reached the fifth floor, he decided to give up the search, took his leave of a friendly, young worker who wanted to lead him on still further and went down the stairs.
The Trial By Franz KafkaGet Context In Chapter Two First Cross-examination 14 The cotton mills of England were standing idle and the workers were starving, and any blockader who could outwit the Yankee fleet could command his own price in Liverpool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XII 15 Let the English mill workers starve because they can't get our cotton but never, never strike a blow for slavery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XIII