"Working-day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Care then promised to you, Life has so faithfully made it true In sighs and weeping and ever and aye, In troubles of weary working-day, In pain of so many a sleepless night, With need and ...
— Dame Care • Hermann Sudermann
... Loud sousing and snorting noises were heard to proceed from a tub in the back quarters of the dwelling, proclaiming that he was there performing his great Sunday wash, lasting half-an-hour, to which his washings on working-day mornings were mere flashes in the pan. Vanishing into the outhouse with a large brown towel, and the above-named bubblings and snortings being carried on for about twenty minutes, the tranter would appear round the edge of the door, smelling like a summer fog, ...
— Under the Greenwood Tree • Thomas Hardy
... the mask saturated with its nauseating "dope." Habit forced him to a swift upward glance at the three ventilators in the roof. They were all set wide open. Then he glanced round him surveying the work that occupied his working-day, and half the night he would gladly have devoted ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum
... but a single working-day of the session left, for the session must end at noon of the 4th of March. The list must be reduced. The manner in which this was done clinches the proof, if there had been any doubt before, that the list of ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... among his neighbours, dreaded by some and quite a mystery to others. He was continually to be seen about with a gun, especially on Sundays, when he was not ashamed to be thus desecrating God's holy day; on the contrary, he rather prided himself on not "shifting" his working-day clothes, when other people were ...
— From Death into Life - or, twenty years of my ministry • William Haslam |
