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Example sentences for "manual labor"

  • It is difficult for them to finance themselves, with any degree of frugality or economy, upon the small and precarious income they earn at manual labor.

  • This passage has opened the way for different commentators to refer us to the public sentiment and general practice of the Jews respecting useful industry and manual labor.

  • Domestic slavery was manifestly inconsistent with the industry, which, in the form of manual labor, so generally prevailed among the Jews.

  • Slavery among a people who, from the highest to the lowest, were used to manual labor!

  • A] This passage has opened the way for different commentators to refer us to the public sentiment and general practice of the Jews respecting useful industry and manual labor.

  • The supposition, that they were slaveholders, is inconsistent with their practice, and with the tenor of their instructions to others on the duty of manual labor.

  • Manual labor is not more divided and subdivided than is the influence of the human intellect.

  • To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

  • I have been able to endure the hardest kind of manual labor, exposures, hardships, and journeys.

  • He found pleasure in manual labor whenever he could snatch away some time in which to devote himself to his garden and to his field.

  • In reading his journal one learns to esteem more highly the practice of manual labor.

  • If he ever felt the temptation to leave his ministry for any length of time it was the temptation which came to him in his love of manual labor.

  • The muscles in the small of the back, running up and down on each side of the spine, come into play in many forms of manual labor, and should therefore possess strength and endurance.

  • When the cuticle in the palms of the hands or other parts of the body is subjected to severe pressure, or friction, it becomes thick and hard, and better adapted to manual labor.

  • Starch and sugar are primarily the foods which furnish animal heat and energy, and hence should be used in great abundance by those who are engaged in manual labor.

  • The obligation of manual labor, for example, was frequently dispensed with in order that the monks might occupy themselves with the studies for which the Benedictines have always been famous.

  • And therefore, at fixed times, the brothers ought to be occupied in manual labor; and again, at fixed times, in sacred reading.

  • While thousands go to the Grotto to contribute to the splendid church, Bernadette’s father has remained a poor miller, subsisting with difficulty by manual labor.

  • This increase of mechanical and chemical power was continually diminishing the demand for, and value of, manual labor, and would continue to do so, and would effect great changes throughout society.

  • We go to that man and say: "Every screw here is made by manual labor alone.

  • Briefly, Mr. Mallock insisted that Marx believed and taught that all wealth is produced by manual labor, and that, therefore, it ought to belong to the manual workers.

  • Wayland fails to see two or three important things in this Negro problem:-- (a) That the Negro has no need to go to a manual labor school.

  • University of the old-time type of Manual labor.

  • Send him to Manual Labor Schools," cries out another set of philanthropists.

  • The immediate effect of an ingenious piece of machinery, is, that it renders superfluous, in the production of any given result, a certain quantity of manual labor.

  • On the same principle, can it not be objected to machinery, that it accomplishes through natural agents what would otherwise be the result of manual labor, and that it is thus injurious to human labor?

  • The work was hard and unpleasant, especially to men who had not spent the major portion of their lives at manual labor, but it was one of those disagreeable fortunes of war to which we were growing accustomed, and we toiled without comment.

  • As each keg contained one hundred pounds, the task was not easy for men unaccustomed to manual labor.

  • These young men working here at the hardest kind of manual labor, buckling down cheerfully to dirty jobs, were, a few days ago, living in luxury in the best homes in New York City.

  • The following days until the eighth of May were days of manual labor, which hardened our muscles and placed a fine edge on our appetites.

  • Manual labor is a school in which men are placed to get energy of purpose and character,--a vastly more important endowment than all the learning of all other schools.

  • Away, then, with the idea of something low in manual labor.

  • Manual labor is a great good; but, in so saying, I must be understood to speak of labor in its just proportions.

  • Then I made some experiments in manual labor.

  • The Indians enter into this game with great zeal, and lend to it the wonderful energy which they have preserved from year to year by abstaining from the debilitating effects of manual labor.


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