They assisted in the distribution of alms, and took their share with the minister in manual labour; and then, in the intervals between these trifling duties, they devoted their time to Bible study and preparation for the ministry proper.
As the afternoon was not considered a good time for brain work, the Brethren employed it in manual labour, such as weaving, gardening and tailoring.
The one was engaged in manual labour; the other was preaching the gospel.
I avow that I could desire to see manufactured by manual labour, forced exertion, and the sweat of the brow, things that are now produced without trouble and spontaneously.
Analysis demonstrates that interest and rent are the fruit of services rendered, and have the same origin, the same nature, the same rights as manual labour.
Be that as it may, when they refer the principle of Value to Labour, they would be very near the truth if they did not allude to manual labour.
And, as would appear from a reference in one of Paul's letters, he had to support himself afterwards by manual labour.
The money would make it less necessary to spend most of the week in manual labour; the glad tidings of the Thessalonians' 'faith and love' did bring fresh life, and the presence of his helpers would cheer him.
Paul had adhered when together, of supporting himself by manual labour.
The monks spent all the time, not devoted to religious services or study, in manual labour.
The manifest reason is that it was a great saving of manual labour, for if the monks did not grind their corn with water, they should grind it with the hand-quern.
The Clugniacs formally abrogated the requirement of manual labourrequired in the Benedictine rule, and professed to devote themselves more sedulously to the cultivation of the mind.
The Cistercians professed to observe the rule of St. Benedict with rigid exactness, only that some of the hours which were devoted by the Benedictines to reading and study, the Cistercians devoted to manual labour.
For the same reason, should they not reproach machinery with accomplishing by natural agents what otherwise would have been done by manual labour, and so of being injurious to human labour?
It thus requires a relatively small supplement of manual labour, and does not necessitate seasonal migrations.
Who has ever been employed in or about boats, or in manual labour, for money or wages.
Nobody, therefore, is to be disqualified for serving an apprenticeship, even if it involves (as in the case of engineers or nurserymen) manual labour for a money payment.
If there are several grades of aristocracy, the women of high rank are commonly exempt from industrial employment, or at least from the more vulgar kinds of manual labour.
Manual labour, industry, whatever has to do directly with the everyday work of getting a livelihood, is the exclusive occupation of the inferior class.
It is convenient for statistical purposes to include in it all those who do not belong to the 'manual labour class.
Professor Haughton has devised a formula by means of which a certain amount of walking exercise may be made to represent its equivalent in manual labour.
When about eight years old he was put to manual labour, earning three-halfpence a day as a buddle-boy at a tin mine.
Having to support myself by manual labour, my time for reading was but little, and to overcome this disadvantage, my usual method was to place a book before me while at meat, and at every repast I read five or six pages.
Then do you think everyone without exception ought to engage in manual labour?
Those who have neither wealth nor education earn their daily bread by manual labour, and I see no grounds for my being an exception.
Anybody, even the most abject fool or criminal, is capable of manual labour; such labour is the distinguishing mark of the slave and the barbarian, while the holy fire is vouchsafed only to a few!
The other is the growing application of exceptional mental powers, not to the manual labour of the men by whom these powers are possessed, but to the process of directing and co-ordinating the divided labours of others.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manual labour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
