Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...proper authorities it would be useless to attempt to induce them to do anything about it. Nevertheless, the construction of the arches would be of so much advantage to our boating interests that we hope an attempt, at least, will be made to induce the authorities to undertake the work...
...future, we would recommend that a little more time and care be taken in compiling the work, and a little more attention be given to the wishes of the students, than to making the book an advertising medium...
...Simpson, you cannot go to work this morning, your mother-in-law is dead...
...amount of pleasure and of mental relief which a few good pictures - peculiarly your own property - will give you is astonishing. There are many moments when you are too indolent to work, or even to think of anything to think about. You sit in your chair, lighting cigarettes and mentally declaring that this sort of thing is unbearably slow. You look at your walls or your mantel-piece in the condition in which they at present are, and you are reminded of nothing but this same slow sort of thing. Last year's crew and last year's burlesque actress...
...tired with work and want rest, it is the same. You are too tired to read, and your mind is too full to work of itself with ease. A glance at your walls will give you either additional trouble, or the relief that you desire, according as they are hung with commonplace or with good pictures...