Jobs
[dʒɑbs]
Examples
- Yawler recommended me to one or two other offices, however--Mr. Waterbrook's for one--and I got a good many jobs. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He's been running odd jobs, and that, for the last two months. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- After all, there were plenty of Mingott men for such jobs, and as yet he was not even a Mingott by marriage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There were numerous brothers and sisters, and the family pursued the French authorities with importunities for rewards and jobs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We journeymen must take jobs when we can get them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr Clennam got it him to do, and gives him odd jobs besides in at the Works next door--makes 'em for him, in short, when he knows he wants 'em. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Why, you know I don't mind hard jobs much, and there must always be one scrub in a family. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Moriarty supplied him liberally with money, and used him only in one or two very high-class jobs, which no ordinary criminal could have undertaken. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Jo helps me with the sewing, and insists on doing all sorts of hard jobs. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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