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Example sentences for "public work"

  • At Sydney, the labouring hands were employed in unloading the store-ship; for which purpose three men from each farm having ten were ordered in to public work.

  • The want of artificers of all descriptions, and the scarcity of labourers at public work, much retarded the construction of a number of necessary buildings.

  • The Chicago Tribune, edited by Joseph Medill, offered this tribute: The best known and most popular woman in the United States, engaged in public work, is Susan B.

  • This seemed too good to be true, as she had had no such help in all her forty-five years of public work.

  • Among the many flourishing local societies may be mentioned that of Table Rock, which is so strong an influence in the community that the need of any other club for literary or public work is not felt.

  • All of the women mentioned above are members of the suffrage association, and those engaged in public work of all kinds are, almost without exception, advocates of woman suffrage.

  • Although so much of my time has been spent in public work, I have by no means neglected or despised the social side of life.

  • But though I was now free to take up public work, the long strain of my mother's illness and death had affected my usually robust health, and I took things quietly.

  • He claimed to be, in spite of the misgivings of Elizabeth and her ministers, as devoted to public work and as capable of it as any of them.

  • For nearly another year Bacon had no public work.

  • One point in connection with my public work on which I have differed from them is the holding of labour meetings on Sundays.

  • There were urgent appeals in these days from the lately-married brother and his wife for sister Susan to come to Kansas and, as no public work seemed to be pressing, she started the latter part of January, 1865.

  • Since her marriage, twelve years before, she had been practically out of public work, insisting that she had lost her power for speaking.

  • She received scores of letters asking information as to the best plants and most successful methods, others begging her not to give up public work, and many from friends who had no end of fun at her expense.

  • This was a literary center, she often invited Miss Anthony to meet her distinguished guests, and ever encouraged and sustained her public work.

  • My public work took me away for many hours, unfortunately for myself, but such was the regular run of our busy lives.

  • They recognize the fact that he does a great deal of public work and is compelled to live almost continually a life of unnatural pressure.

  • In the United States, except as to public work, they would be probably unconstitutional.

  • The question will probably have presented itself to many minds, If Mr Bradlaugh was giving up so much time to public work, to lecturing, reform meetings, debating, etc.

  • I was here about to break off and take up again the thread of the story of Mr Bradlaugh's public work, but it occurs to me that I have said little about my father's treatment of us, his children, and of our early education.

  • Those who have travelled with me thus far will have noticed that the story of Mr Bradlaugh's public work is carried down to 1860, just prior to the inauguration of the National Reformer.

  • How came it that a working man like Crooks was able to give his whole time to public work?

  • Let these simple facts, then, be the answer to those people who, surprised at the amount of public work he carries out, keep asking suspiciously how he does it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    difference between; moral character; public authority; public business; public debt; public disputation; public documents; public enemies; public functionaries; public funds; public inspection; public interest; public liberty; public matters; public measures; public moneys; public morality; public officer; public places; public schools; public sentiment; public square; public taste; public work; publick affairs; publicly perform