"Labor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the chambers which contained the most interesting fragments of pottery, sat and looked at them for a while. Some of them were beautifully decorated. This care, expended upon vessels that could not hold food or water any better for the additional labor put upon them, made her heart go out to those ancient potters. They had not only expressed their desire, but they had expressed it as beautifully as they could. Food, fire, water, and something else—even here, in this crack in the world, ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... that he should most gladly, to the utmost of his ability, labor incessantly for his guest and relative, but must insist that he should be left to do so of his own free will, without reference to any pecuniary compensation, and out of the high regard in which he held his friend ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 • Various
... pausing to learn whether any investigations have already been made. In matters of mechanical invention attempts are continually making to achieve what investigation has proved impossible, and a great deal of labor and money are wasted in finding by costly experience what is already known, and might have been learned by an hour's ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 - Volume 1, Number 2 • Various
... engineer and organizer of untiring energy and illimitable patience could have performed so herculean a labor. Balthazar was all this, and more. He knew how to rule men despotically yet secure their love. The Indians did his bidding without hesitation and wrought for him without pay. In the absence of this quality his task ...
— Mr. Fortescue • William Westall
... died in her labor, giving birth to two eggs," the sun and moon. "From these emerged the two brothers, Apocatequil ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
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