He joined the ranks of the shabby-genteel to live somehow by bits of honest work, mixed with a great deal of dishonest work.
He declares that he wants work, honest work, and he considers that his "certificate" vouches for his bona fides.
A reflection of his doctrine of honest work as the cure for social ills is found in Past and Present; and for a summary of his philosophy there is nothing quite so good as his early Sartor Resartus (1834).
The central doctrines of the book are the suppression of self, or selfishness, and the value of honest work in contrast with the evil of mammon-worship.
It was little short of intolerable, this struggle to gain the "honest, self-respecting living by honest work" that there was so much talk about.
I don't want to get on by means of any false pretenses, but by honest work.
For a few pounds he could earn with a month's honest work and be all the better man for it.
Some people would call the first, after years of honest work, and being always able to look every one in the face, being more of a man than the other.
And while the ground that she planned for flower beds and vegetable gardens yielded up its unprofitable growth and was made ready for the plowman's steel the boys were receiving Nature's best discipline, the tug and sweat of honest work.
And when this work was finished the man, feeling again the spirit of manhood revived by honest work, went over into Edgerly and obtained steady employment; and his wife and children awoke to a new appreciation of life.
What has pleased me in what I've been able to observe in you, has been your willingness to take hold of any kind of honest work.
He had discovered, in fine, that there were sorts ofhonest work in the world which one must not do if he would keep his self-respect through the consideration of others.
I tried to make Barker believe that I respected all kinds of honest work.
It was shortly after this that Duncan had imported two men to do what they called 'a bit of honest work.
We came from town to do a bit of honest work, but we will not witness murder.
He would make of himself a monster of cruelty or of abject servility to avoid starvation or honest work.
One certainly gets good material and honest work; and reasonable prices are charged.
He even preferred ignominious starvation to honest work; and, in his desperate struggle to avoid the horror of the one and the disgrace of the other, he would sink himself lower in the scale of moral infamy than the black slave he despised.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honest work" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
