Working

Examples

• A hard-working man, and not overstrong, he would return to his home from the machine-shop where he was employed, and throw himself on the bed night after night to rest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Perhaps I had better say, that you must submit to be mildly bored rather than to go on working. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Scientists in both England and America had realized the possibility of the telegraph before Morse built his first working outfit in his rooms on Washington Square. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I should think from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A very simple illustration of the working of a steam engine is given in Figure 128. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Taking the horse power as the equivalent of the work of five men, the work of steam is equivalent to that of a population of 500,000,000 working men. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He was one with the _Ingl閟_ still working under the bridge and he was one with all of the battle and with the Republic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• For a long time, though studying and working patiently, I had accustomed myself to robust exercise. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a-day, and three hundred working days in the year, will make three hundred thousand nails in the year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Metallurgy is an ancient art, and the working of gold, silver and copper dates back to the beginning of history. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The streets were thronged with working people. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He at length proposed to me travelling all over Europe together, supporting ourselves everywhere by working at our business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was evident to me that he was becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out altogether as he had hoped. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Of the working out of these beginnings we shall tell later. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Bradley looked at the fire, with a working face, and was silent for a while. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Even to us he assumed gaiety and hope, and assumed them so well, that we did not divine the secret workings of his mind. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She seemed to hinder one's workings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There may be mysterious workings of the human mind, such as occur only at great crises of history. Plato. The Republic.
• His face was very much agitated and very much flushed, and there were strong workings in the features, and strange gleams in the eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It left less to chance, less to mere individual logical conviction, less to the workings of private self-interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Now, merciful Heaven be thanked for that old time, and grant, O Blessed Lord, that through thy wonderful workings it may turn to good at last! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The old workings could not get at it, that was all. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then break the neck of the old workings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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