They had hired me to play the flute, but they prevented me from playing because they do not like music.
She spoke of the venal fatigue of her eyes, of her lips hired by the night, of her hair entrusted to brutal hands, of her divinity crucified.
There are fiddles, and basses, and a second-hand cracked piano, suggestive of having been hired from itinerant Minstrels on Margate Sands.
The brother was the elder of the two orphans; he was the old man's delight and dependence by day, while his hired man was afield.
But I shouldn't thought Asaph Ball would have let his hired help set out and ask company to tea just four weeks from the day his only sister was laid away.
I shouldn't wonder if I hired a hand here another year, and went off out West myself to see the country.
A rather anaemic young woman, a Miss Annie James, washired for Janet's old place.
The crocuses and tulips were in bloom, and his friend, in a gardening apron, was on her knees, trowel in hand, assisting a hired man to set out marigolds and snapdragons.
And, presently, rising up, he declares the same signs to him that hired him, with the rest of the Circumstances.
You know the claque is a set of men who are hired to clap at certain points in the play indicated beforehand to them, in order that the audience may appreciate the most salient points and join the applause, if they wish to.
The Prince of Wales gave a ball at Cooper's Hill (the house they had hired for the Ascot week), which was very charming and sans façon.
Like his father, he employed mercenaries for his wars, whom he hired from Pisidia and Cilicia.
With these moneys he hired mercenaries and subdued a great part of Galilee.
Close to my dwelling an enormous circus tent had been pitched, and this was hired for the occasion.
In this he was unsuccessful, so after six weeks we hired another wagon and started for King William's Town.
Grahamstown was our destination, so an ox-wagon of the largest size and with a team to match was hired to convey us and our belongings to the city, which has since become so celebrated as the abode of saints.
I hired myself to a trader, whose shop was in the Gaika Reserve, close to the kraal of the celebrated Chief Sandile, not far from Tembani.
With the assistance of a couple of boys, hired for the purpose, I moved my tent and other belongings up to the saddle.
We hired more boys, we ran prospecting trenches in every direction, we worked late and early often carrying the bags of wash down the scarped footpath ourselves, long after the boys had knocked off.
A native was hired to carry the board up and down the creek, beating an old tin billy to attract attention.
We hired two Bapedi boys to carry some of our goods.
We harrowed the stuff down to old Lochhead's race, where we hired a water right.
Something had to be done, so my father hired a farm about ten miles away, in the direction of Kabousie.
A hired woman was assisting the maid in putting the room in order.
Pete had hired a shyster lawyer and got ten years in Yuma; Mike had plead his own case and escaped with only three.
That was what he was hired for—to convict law-breakers—and if he let a single guilty man escape he was recreant to his trust.
Even in jail it was the poor and lowly who were punished, while the jail-lawyers and those who could afford the petty dollar that hired them took shelter behind the law.
He had been very busy in the earlier part of the morning, but now had a few moments to talk to the young man who had been hired to help in haying time.
Ellen is gone into the town, And low into the street; The fairest lady that she could find, She hired in his arms to sleep; And took her up in her arms two, For filing of her feet.
Yet one of them more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge, Because the wretch, that hired him, Had paid him very large.
She hired Lizzie for a second girl to be with her and soon they were all content.
Mrs. Haydon scolded because Lena did not do it better, but then she was very good to Lena, and she hired a girl to come and help her.
One of the other hired men came to my rescue and gave me a thorough rubbing with liniment, after which I was able to crawl down to breakfast.
But I found that the farm was too lonesome, with only hired help about me, so I secured a tenant and hied back to my city quarters.
This agreed with me and I seemed to be gaining in strength, but I came to the conclusion that I might as well turn my exercise into a useful channel; so I went out into the country and hired myself out to a farmer.
I hired then at Charonne Rue de Silas three rooms newly papered.
Besides the offices of the magazine, D'Argenton had hired in the same house a large apartment, from which he had a superb view.
Why, have you forgotten that you hired a boat, and sent for provisions?
Finally, in order to combine economy with the exigencies of his new position, he hired the buildings we have just visited in this hideous Passage des Douze Maisons, and displayed in the avenue the gorgeous sign we have mentioned.
The furniture is hiredby the fortnight from Fitily, the cocottes' upholsterer.
When he realized the failure of artificial nursing, he simply hired four or five buxom nurses in the neighborhood, and nothing more was needed to revive the children's appetites.
When he was sixteen he secured a place as pion in a boarding school in the Cévennes,--pion is a poor devil of a youth hiredto keep watch on the boys.
The Nabob hired the whole second floor of the house on Place Vendôme, the previous tenant being sacrificed to Nabob prices.
The rumour was that you were very ill; so I hired a furnished place for Frau von Dittmarsch at once.
We had a Ball party and an Aladdin supper, and for a fortnight my father hired postillions; we flashed through London.
He had hired Count Fretzel's chateau, in the immediate neighbourhood, and was absolutely independent, he said.
Returning to the pier, I learnt that he had set sail in his hired yacht for the sister town on the Solent, at an early hour:--for what purpose?
But on coming to himself he said, "`How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!
Morris hired him from Chelmsford, and he does not know Anne, luckily for her.
He got to know a concert hall where I frequently sang and hired himself there as an attendant.
That the exhibition of grief might be sufficient, wailing women were hiredto increase the lamentations.
If a man has hired a field to cultivate and has caused no corn to grow on the field, he shall be held responsible for not doing the work on the field and shall pay an average rent.
Fines were imposed for any abuses suffered during a period when he was hired out.
Now her armies were increased by mercenaries--foreign soldiers hired to do her fighting for her.
Cabs take ready money, a precious article, to be carefully treasured and only parted with under absolute necessity, but a brougham can always be hired on credit.
Their correspondence on the subject filled the space of a week, and then the gentleman hired to drive a creaky wheel came down from London to Olmer, arriving late in the evening.
The househired for a month above Great Marlow was ready; her ladyship could enter it to-morrow.
Our burgess, who bowed head to his aristocrat, and hired the soldier to fight for him, could not see that such mis-behaviour necessarily ensued.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hired" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
