After he had served for long years as a hireling for a hireling's wage, it brought him back at length to the threshold of the promised Canaan.
It made him for long years, his best years, a hireling in his kinsman's house.
The stranger only laughed, and catching hold of the much enduring hireling he drove him level with the colt, and lifted him over the ensuing bank and gripe in a way subsequently described by Jerry as having "covered acres".
It was at about this point that the stranger on the hireling drew level; he had not been at the meet, and Muriel turned her head to see who it was that was kicking old McConnell's screw along so well.
True he gave, And faithfully, the hireling his reward, Counting such justice 'mid the happier forms Of Charity, which with a liberal hand He to the sad and suffering poor dispensed.
His career from this period, whether as a journalist, or whether as a government hireling employed on secret services, is, to say the least, dishonest.
A pension he had defined as a pay given to a state hireling to betray his country; a pensioner as a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey a master.
But you present to our people, who are offended by it, the spectacle of dependence upon hireling service for your daily comfort and convenience.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Don't you perceive," cried he, "that Holt is a hireling of the priests?
Hence a hireling who without scruple carries out the orders of his master is up to the highest point of the age--such a fellow has taken his stand on servility.
We are merely servants, we are hirelings, and what need a hireling care whether that which his master commands is right or not?
She wears, thee knows, the gayest gowns, she hears a hireling priest!
The fiery duke is pricking fast across Saint Andre's plain, With all the hireling chivalry of Guelders and Almayne.
Nor can applause attend hireling Swiss, or Italian chieftains of the Middle Ages, or bought Hessians of the British armies, who sold their spears and bayonets to the highest bidder.
A learned priesthood is certainly more honorable than "an hireling clergy.
A hireling psuedo-priesthood will plausibly push abolition doctrines and doings and "human rights" into Congress, and into every other place where conquest smells of fame, or opposition swells to popularity.
Now there was a certain Guy of Gisborne, a hireling knight of the King's army, who heard of Robin and of the price upon his head.
You did bring it upon yourself," said he; "and traitor and hireling though you were, I would not willingly have killed you.
I trow not all the hireling knaves within this Castle wall should wrest thee from us now.
The blush of conscious degradation rose to the cheek of the Lincoln hireling as he turned his face away from mine.
When I state that this same Mitchell became afterward a hireling helot in the Yankee Army, every intelligent reader will appreciate the prophetic discrimination of this true son of the South.
