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Example sentences for "hire"

Lexicographically close words:
hippuric; hips; hir; hiraman; hird; hired; hireling; hirelings; hirer; hirers
  1. I've come to hire you; get your trunk aboard right away.

  2. Do you think you'll go up before a judge and hire a lawyer to defend you?

  3. You can't hire Cherry Bim to do a low, vulgar murder.

  4. The ordinary course was to hire a lad they called a caddie, who was like a guide or pilot, led you where you had occasion, and (your errands being done) brought you again where you were lodging.

  5. He arranged with a person in Senegal to hire for him some negroes, and a canoe to gather the ashes of the plants after they were burned.

  6. The river Thames was then really used for traffic, and numerous boats plied for hire from every “stair,” as the steps leading down to the river were called.

  7. Priests as well as warriors are exempt from taxes and in possession of a great part of the agricultural land, which they hire out to peasants for large sums of money.

  8. If a man hires (the ox) for one year, he shall pay 4 GUR of grain as the hire of a working ox.

  9. For the hire of an ox to carry burdens (?

  10. It can be done, indeed, but only as a man who can hire a boat may set up for an East India merchant.

  11. They even hire men to write this, and pay them for it.

  12. Runaways may be let out to hire by the keeper of the gaol.

  13. There, upon consent of the court or of two justices, he might be sold to hire by the gaoler.

  14. The folks that hire him don't have any patience.

  15. If you want a clean street to walk on, you must hire somebody to shovel away the slush.

  16. I can hire you a car in half an hour, with liveried chauffeur," said the shopman, after telephoning.

  17. If they feel as if they couldn't help being jolly, then they hire a private room somewhere and draw the blinds down.

  18. She saw an automobile shop with a card at the door: "Town and touring cars for hire by day, week, or month.

  19. I tell them your uncle own island; you hire it of him for summer.

  20. The State of Maine doesn't have to hire any warden to keep me honest.

  21. This apprentice had probably been let out to hire as a valet by Hinkesman, who received his wages instead of teaching him his trade.

  22. There are also many entries for “boat hire”; whenever a journey was taken it seems to have nearly always been on the river, and only on rare occasions is horse hire mentioned.

  23. Yes, I will go and you can hire your Fran.

  24. You see, the respectable gentlemen who run things hire disreputable creatures.

  25. If he's worth while I should think you'd hire him," remarked Jane shrewdly.

  26. When taking most notice, and doing best work of selecting, the Yankee, to appearance, never did hire a team, and never will.

  27. Teams for hire are in abundance, and are with their drivers in waiting for employment.

  28. They generally employ men to work by the piece and at home; or, where steam is required, they hire rooms furnished with the requisite power.

  29. The guides owning them have followed us for a mile or more, in spite of our protestations, acting as though they knew we should hire their beasts, although we had with business-like earnestness told them that we thought we would walk.

  30. It has a number of small and comfortable hotels, and carriages are on hire at reasonable prices.

  31. When we came to the banks of the Dniepr and manifested our intention of crossing, all the boatmen stared at us in amazement, and not one of them would let us hire his sledge.

  32. For a charge of fifteen francs per twenty kilogrammes, the Jews undertake to give security to the customs in title-deeds, which they hire at the rate of five or six per cent.

  33. The Cossack and Anthony ran about among all the peasants, trying to prevail on them to hire us horses; but the Russians are so lazy that they would rather lose an opportunity of earning money than quit their sweet repose.

  34. The coolies were obliged to perform the labour as corvee, and if they were not in sufficient number, the population of the post towns had to hire men at ordinary rates to let them out at the government tariff.

  35. I scarce forbear to hate The colder breast I bring again.

  36. You can have the use of one of our trucks for hauling, but you will probably have to hire help to move it.

  37. But we will meet at the picture show or at a local poolroom and I will hire you to take care of the baggage and the accessories as they come in.

  38. It is not very manly in him to accuse me of stealing simply because I refused to hire any more teams of him.

  39. But I was obliged to hire it on the instant, or lose it.

  40. Twelve hundred dollars would hire a house, furnish it, and enables me to live like a lord.

  41. How could you do such a thing, Paley, as to hire a house and furnish it, without saying a word to me?

  42. I could not hire one, and I did not like to pay a hundred dollars for such a useless piece of furniture; but there was no alternative.

  43. I proposed an arrangement with the concern, that I would hire the instrument with the intention of purchasing if it suited me.

  44. The “coqui” were in the habit of standing in the market-place for hire by those who required their services.

  45. Pray, really is it so, that when you have abused her like a courtesan, the law orders you to pay her hire and pack her off?

  46. Only, I say, we shall have to hire horses.

  47. Then do you wish me to hire horses to go to Tula?

  48. When a man cannot live and maintain his family by the natural hire of his labour, ought it not to be raised by authority?

  49. But what if the rate of hire to the labourer comes far short of his necessary subsistence, and the calamity of the time is so great as to threaten actual famine?

  50. So soon as they were within the river banks the captain of this ship, Smith by name, had landed the cargo-master with letters and a manifest of cargo, bidding him hire a horse and bring them to Master Castell's house in Holborn.

  51. Nay, Señor, they took all the horses and mules in the village by force, though the marquis promised that he would return them and pay for their hire later, and we trusted him because we must.

  52. Mr. Dycer after me, as I entered his great establishment for the sale and hire of horses.

  53. He said as he was going to hire a boat to carry the horse and some goods of his, as he was be taking to Castella, across the river in the morning, but he never did come back here.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hired girl; hired servant