The shifts to cover up ignorance, and "the constant trembling lest some blunder should expose one's emptiness," are pitiable.
He learned arithmetic during the night shifts when he was an engineer.
Meantime the herdsman hero shifts his place, To find fresh pasture and untrodden grass.
As quickly as we read, it melts and shifts in the memory; even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful.
He pays with the desperateshifts to which he is driven in order to maintain any kind of verisimilitude.
I see it in the worker on the assembly line who clocked extra shifts to keep his company open and the boss who pays him higher wages instead of laying him off.
Talk to the window manufacturer in Philadelphia who said he used to be skeptical about the Recovery Act, until he had to add two more work shifts just because of the business it created.
Over more than three decades, even before the great recession hit, massive shifts in technology and global competition had eliminated a lot of good, middle class jobs and weakened the economic foundations that families depend on.
I think we can reorganize one of the shifts so as to reduce the number of foremen.
When the four o'clock whistle blew and the shifts changed, some one sat down silently near Jim.
The two shifts not at work swarmed the streets of the lower camp, the Mexicans at the far end, the Americans at the upper end near Dad Robins' house, whence came the sound of an old woman's hard sobs.
When both stifles are affected the subject frequently shifts the weight from one limb to the other.
On leaving the mountains it flows south, but soon shifts its course to the east; it then again pursues a southerly direction till it reaches the sea.
The course of the Don certainly begins from the north, but afterwards it turns eastward, and then suddenly shiftsto the west.
The difference of length between the northern and southern sides is caused, he tells us, by the Euphrates, which after running south some distance shifts its course almost due east.
His political skill, in following the lurches and shiftsof the Stalin party line while simultaneously leading an enormous Chinese peasant revolt, is monumental.
The emphasis was no longer on sudden changes, on personality, on dramatic shifts of power.
Fractional coins passed by metallic weight; the shifts in the price of copper in New York and London determined the number of pennies which farmers received for their silver dollars, even on the threshold of Tibet.
Actual shifts in power are here fought out, since the C.
Unlike a Western state, wherein government becomes the prime mobilizer during crises, Chinese society shifts its incalculable forces, and governments leap forward to take advantage of them.
He himself went to Amisus, which still held out under the command of Callimachus, who, by his great engineering skill, and his dexterity at all the shifts and subtleties of a siege, had greatly incommoded the Romans.
Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it: it is more inconceivable that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one only should furnish the subject of it.
In case the nature of the work is such that it requires a working day in excess of the normal, two or more shifts shall be engaged.
Where there are several shifts, each shift shall work the normal working hours; the change of shifts must take place during the time fixed by the rules of the internal management without interfering with the normal course of work.
Hamerik's characterization of his flute-playing may be taken as the key to all his work: "The artist felt in his performance the superiority of the momentary inspiration to all the rules and shifts of mere technical scholarship.
They can rely on you, and you on them; so there will be no falling off, when the wind shifts to the northeast.
No, daughter, do not you believe you can Catch me with shifts and tricks: I see, I tell you, Into your heart.
Swiftly they lost consciousness of time, even with the routine of the changing shifts and the food which was brought in at regular hours.
It chanced that when I went forth to hunt and course Zau al-Makan sought my leave to fare Hijaz-wards, but I, fearing for him the shifts of fortune, forbade him therefrom until the next year or the year after.
Allah be near thee how so far thou fare; ✿ Ward off all shifts of Time, all dangers thwart!
Gillies and Bickerton took alternateshifts in driving the motor-launch.
This was done about three-quarters of a mile south of the Hut in working shifts of two men.
FN#86] When they had done eating together, they made the lesser ablution and prayed; after which they sat talking of what had befallen each of them from his people and from the shifts of Time.
When the jeweller heard his words, he laughed; and Ali said, "Why dost thou laugh at my words, thou on whose coming I congratulated myself and to whom I looked for provision against the shifts of fortune?
And the two gave not over conversing till the bird said, "Never shall I cease fearing the shifts of time and vicissitudes of events.
Thus the people of Timor, in the East Indies, think that the earth rests on the shoulder of a mighty giant, and that when he is weary of bearing it on one shoulder he shifts it to the other, and so causes the ground to quake.
Milford Haven, which is at your door, may serve to show you that the mere advantage of ports, is not the thing which shifts the seat of commerce from one part of the world to the other.
He was the very Columbus of mare's nests; to the discovery of them, though they lay far beyond the pillars of Hercules, he would apply all shifts and all resources possible to an ultra-Baconian process of unphilosophical induction.
When pursued he usually makes for his hole; but should his retreat be cut off, his stratagems and shifts to escape are singularly acute.
His lame unpolished shifts are come to light; And truth hath pulled the vizard from his face, That set a gloss upon his arrogance.
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