"Sweating" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for us! who have served for his kingdom seven years, Yea, and yet other seven have we served, sweating blood, bleeding tears, For the kingdom of God and the saints! Rachel's beauty made bold, Yet we bear but a Leah at last to a hearth ...
— Ride to the Lady • Helen Gray Cone
... you plaine, you are no honest man, To call a shepheards care an idle toye. What though we have a little merry sport With flowrie gyrlonds, and an Oaten pipe, And jolly friskins on a holly-day, Yet is a shepheards cure a greater carke Then sweating ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen
... day after day. I don't mean, when I say "work," what you mean by work. I don't mean work such as my friend the Censor does, or my friend the N.E.O. does, nor my friends and shipmates, the navigating officer, the flying men, or the officers of the watch. I mean work, hard, sweating, nasty toil, coupled with responsibility. I am not alone. Most ships of the ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... from a power house; by the force of conventional thought, over wires of red tape. Fie on you! I thought to meet a human being, not a lifeless thing." She looked at him steadily, her chin in the air, a world of scorn in her face. "Go on sweating beneath the useless load! Go on building your structure of artificiality that ends centuries from now in nothingness! Here's happiness to you in your empty life of self-effacement, with your machine prompted acts, years considered!" Without looking at him, one hand made scornful motion of ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... when a friend at all, which was rare Artagnan, captain of the grey musketeers Death came to laugh at him for the sweating labour he had taken From bad to worse was easy Others were not allowed to dream as he had lived We die as we have lived, and ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Court Memoirs of France • David Widger
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