| Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1840 - 442 sayfa
...Monsieur F^lix will be a powerful and malicious enemy to him. Courage, courage, sister ! Valentin, by the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands, earns wages from the Miller of Corbeil ; but he is not therefore the slave of either old Cle"rivault... | |
| 1846 - 498 sayfa
...for her and the little ones : she thought how often he had eaten bread, and given her to eat of bread which he had earned by the sweat of his brow ; and the hope of being able in return to procure bread for him duriug part of the winter, by means of her labour,... | |
| John Mackay Wilson - 1863 - 600 sayfa
...could provide for the little wants of their aged parent, without the necessity of his still labouring for them — who could secure him in- that ease which...which he had earned by the sweat of his brow and the labour of his hands. Perhaps it was so. At any rate, this we know, that, at the early hour of five... | |
| 1880 - 700 sayfa
...upstart distinctions, proud of the fact that he was a farmer, bearing upon his body the evidence that by the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands he earned the right to a comfortable footing in the world, his chief pride was that his neighbors had... | |
| Lorenzo Burge - 1887 - 324 sayfa
...living in misery and without hope, — the king, nobles, prelates, and merchants, who were made rich by the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands, lived lives of luxurious ease and enjoyment. They revelled in the excitement of the chase ; they adorned... | |
| Bernard Abraham Rosenblatt - 1914 - 202 sayfa
...eyes the unearned wealth of plundered provinces and the spoils of the victors, but the rewards due him by the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands. Furthermore, while the bare necessities of life are assured him, he will learn that he can share in... | |
| 1917 - 742 sayfa
...period of reconstruction which must follow the war. Where man has destroyed there shall he rebuild. By the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands and the creative force of his brain man will seek atonement for the red years since 1914. There will... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 484 sayfa
...fascinating buried-treasure trade, and can catch any writer who tries to use it without having learned it by the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands. I know several other trades and the argot that goes with them; and whenever a person tries to talk... | |
| Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton - 1927 - 358 sayfa
...Texas, and the principle that the workingman should receive a fair proportion of what was produced "by the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands" was announced again.8 The conven'Ibid., January 13, 1878. tion adjourned without making nominations,... | |
| Mark Twain - 1909 - 172 sayfa
...cinating buried-treasure trade, and can catch any writer who tries to use it without having learned it by the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands. I know several other trades and the argot that goes with them; and whenever a person tries to talk... | |
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