Nay, that labour save; Pardon me, Master Arthur, I will now Confess the former frailty of my love.
Was this the care and labour thou hast taken To bring thy foes together to a banquet, To lose thy crown, and be deluded thus!
But shall we lose our labour to come hither, And, without sight of our two children, Go back again?
Still more so is labour where the natural rhythm is subject to frequent interruptions.
Students of economic science have of recent years given attention to ethnology, and their researches into the origin and primitive characteristics of labour have brought to light some facts which are very interesting to us.
Not only the lenses, but all the details of the mechanism are more highly finished; more thought and more labour are bestowed upon them; the parts are more skilfully co-ordinated together; it is a better instrument.
This is especially the case when the labour is carried out in common by a number of people, and the rhythm is embodied in a song, or rhythmic word of command sung by the leader.
Nor is art a diversion to be taken up as a relaxation after the fatigue of serious work, but a labour requiring the best efforts of the hearer's faculties.
Labour Question, and, in fact, the whole of this extremely interesting volume.
The roads had fallen into an abject state, the cities were depopulated, labour was brought into slavery, art had vanished, commerce itself was decaying.
He produced for his guild first; for a brotherhood of men who knew each other, knew the technics of the craft, and, in naming the price of each product, could appreciate the skill displayed in its fabrication or the labour bestowed upon it.
In fact, the more we learn about the medieval city, the more we are convinced that at no time has labour enjoyed such conditions of prosperity and such respect as when city life stood at its highest.
In the hard-labour prisons they have the same organization.
Production being thus a social duty, placed under the control of the whole amitas, manual labourcould not fall into the degraded condition which it occupies now, so long as the free city was living.
In fact, in a medieval city manual labour was no token of inferiority; it bore, on the contrary, traces of the high respect it had been kept in in the village community.
At Paris, the day of labour varied from seven to eight hours in the winter to fourteen hours in summer in certain trades, while in others it was from eight to nine hours in winter, to from ten to twelve in Summer.
Female labour is paid so badly that they cannot afford to exercise the gentleness which characterizes their general movements; and when they come upon the scene of operations they make the best of their short harvest.
It seems that our labour was in vain; yet even had we known this was to be the case, we should not the less have acted as we did.
But my labour was to no purpose, for she was in love herself.
If any words of mine could have force in them sufficient to endure so long, hard would I labour to give them all the worthiness that art can bestow, so that the world might rejoice in thy name for thousands and thousands of years.
They now mounted with great labour the region of ice and snow; but, at the top of it, emerged from winter-time into summer.
We commenced our labourunder oars, but a strong gale from the southward soon rendered this mode of ascending the river ineffectual.
We resumed our operations on the morning of the 3d at the usual hour, and with great labour made a passage for the boats.
They endured this fatigue with the greatest cheerfulness, though it was evident they suffered very much from the cold; and in the evening we witnessed the ill effects of this kind of labour by finding their legs much swelled and inflamed.
They were divided in equal portions amongst the officers, whose labour was amply repaid by the advancement their pupils made: some of those who began with the alphabet, learned to read and write with tolerable correctness.
The difficulties of forcing a passage were not diminished beyond this place, and we were further impeded in our advance by new ice formed between the larger masses, which required additional labour to break through.
For in working about her thou shalt labour a little, and shalt quickly eat of her fruits.
Instruct thy son, and labour about him, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence to thee.
Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all.
NORA: It isn't right; you paylabour only what you have to pay.
You monkey with labour a little more the way you have, and you'll be glad if it's only a little nitroglycerin that gits you.
This is an example to every employer of labour in our land.
With a start, that man will awaken from the sunlit visions of noontide ambition, and exclaim in his desolation anguish, "What are all the rewards to my labour now thou hast robbed me of repose?
By placing his heart at peace, man leaves vent to his energies and passions, and permits their current to flow towards the aims and objects which interest labour or arouse ambition.
And his meditations were rich in results; a new scheme of tactics, wonderful as all his schemes were, rose up from the labour of his lofty thoughts.
If such reflections did anything to bring you nearer God, and make you labour in His service, I should be glad indeed.
On GILES, and such as Giles, the labour falls, To strew the frequent load where hunger calls.
From chilling want and guilty murmurs free: 'Let labour have its due;.
Till now imperious want and wide-spread dearth Bid Labour claim her treasures from the earth.
Gibbon's record of the completion of his great labour is very impressive.
Sir Walter Scott evinced his love of literary labour by undertaking the revision of the whole of the Waverley Novels--a goodly freightage of some fifty or sixty volumes.
In such an event, what would become of our population, with their labour entirely destroyed?
Labour depends entirely upon wages, and wages upon the market price of the article produced.
Our friend Francis seems to labour under the hallucination that everything required for a railway ought to be furnished at prime cost.
A man cannot, as he formerly could, step from his house to his day's work; but research and labour still command a rich timber harvest.
This would be called a war against property; but, in reality, the war against property began when the Legislature admitted foreign untaxed produce to compete with the produce and labour of our tax-paying population at home.
I repeat it, the Corn Laws very materially support labour in this country.
England had given machinery and models to the Continent, and the Continent was now fighting her with her own weapons, and at a cheaper cost, as labour abroad is less expensive than it is here.
It craved his mercy for her husband, who was doomed to five years' hard labour in a fortress.
Sir William Knighton was appointed Keeper of the King's Privy Purse, and was employed in the most arduous labour of endeavouring to arrange the private accounts of his Majesty.
But it was long after these hireling efforts of forced labour had prepared the table for the morning meal, that any one of the favoured sleepers destined to partake of it left his or her downy pillow.
It is herein, and herein only, that I must labourto do according to his wishes and his will, and endeavour so to act that all may see his confidence in me was not misplaced.
How you do labour and toil to spoil that man, Helen!
You do not prate of grace, and then labour to corrupt the innocence that looks into your face to ask the way to Heaven.
It is that interference that makes the labour a joy.
Let us now proceed to the joyous ingathering of the fruits of the earth--the great yearly festival and jubilee of the property and the labour of Medoc.
It is only fair to add that he would deprecate the idea of any excessive labour as bestowed on this, to his mind, immature performance.
He sings of labour and success, of hope and fulfilment, of high ambitions and of great deeds; of the great king in whom are centred all the gifts and the powers of human nature--of Saul himself.
In Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, the villains perform labour duties valued at 9s.
The peculiar trait which distinguishes 'molland' is the transition from labour service to money rent, and the rent is undoubtedly considered as an equivalent for the right to labour services which the lord abandons.
I have had occasion so many times already to speak of the process of commutation, that there is no call now to explain the reasons which induced both landlords and peasants to exchange labour for money-rents.
This seems particularly fitted for a time when the peasantry did not collect to work on a separate home farm, but simply devoted one part of the labour on their own ground to the use of the lord.
The gradual exemption from labour is even more apparent in the records.
I have only to say now that the same remark which applied to the passage from produce 'farms' to labour holds good as to the passage from labour to money payments.
The contrast is between land which provides labour and land which does not; the former is unfree, and villain tenure is the tenure of land held by such services; portions of the demesne given away freely may eventually be reclaimed.
The estate of the lord is in a sense managed on a great scale, but the management is bound up with a supply and a distribution of labour which depend on the conditions of the small tributary households.
It must be added, that when such a general summing up appears, it is mostly to be taken as an indication that the old system based on labour in kind is more or less shaken.
A capable man will make L6 a month and his keep, but he must know the work required of him; a considerable time has to be spent in learning the skilled labour of camp life, and very hard labour that sometimes is.
For a great part of the way I toiled rather painfully through the dazzling snow, but the labour of ascending added to the excitement with which I looked for the summit of the pass.
The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop.
Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form.
We by no means intend to abolish this personal appropriation of the products of labour, an appropriation that is made for the maintenance and reproduction of human life, and that leaves no surplus wherewith to command the labour of others.
The whole of this objection is but another expression of the tautology: that there can no longer be any wage-labour when there is no longer any capital.
From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, i.
The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women.
Finally, they laboureverywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.
But does wage-labour create any property for the labourer?
Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.
In Communist society, accumulated labouris but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the labourer.
In bourgeois society, livinglabour is but a means to increase accumulated labour.
He was but one of the great army of weavers at work among the threads of that cosmic woof; and what he sought was the general impression their labour had produced.
When, however, the Siren disappears and dives below, down among the dead men, the water of course grows turbid over her, and it is labour lost to look into it ever so curiously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "labour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
