His boy should come to him and finish the tasks of his father; and, in the years to come, make other mighty tasks of empire-building for himself and the children of his children.
He ate with relish, delighting meantime in the girl's florid freshness, and even in the assertive, triumphant whistle of the youth busy at his tasks outside.
Aided by the advice of the Maiden of Pohja he succeeds in performing the tasks successfully.
In trying to accomplish the tasks she sets him, he wounds himself severely, and drives away till he finds an old man who promises to stanch the blood.
She prefers Ilmarinen, who is aided by his bride to perform all the tasks set him by Louhi.
They have no military aims or ambitions; their tasks are solely the tasks of peace; their greatest interest and aim is peace.
The establishment of United States naval aviation in Europe has been one of the most difficult and involved tasks which have had to be undertaken and brought into effect.
Not many days after this the big, healthy schemer had to walk out for his living, and had heavy tasks put before him, which he was well able to perform.
He is only too glad to perform these tasks at every opportunity, but the true English beggar is a Briton that never will be a slave.
For he becomes hardened to the indignities and heavy tasks set before him, and at last looks on such a cold, wretched place as a home, aye, even as a playground.
My tasks have spared me no time to earn of you what would be dearer than life, and all one with duty and honor.
It was really not hard labor--the tasks set were simple and not oppressive, but all of the products were promptly sold, and the profits pocketed.
These demands will continue and the diversity of assigned tasks is unlikely to contract.
Fourth and lastly, our military forces must be capable of responding to all the other tasks and functions for which the national command authority calls upon the military.
Systems addressing this more time-sensitive set of tasks would include light, quickly deployable satellites, high altitude and endurance unmanned aerial vehicles, manned platforms, and unattended ground sensors.
Such tasks tend to be inconclusive and of long duration.
Other tasks could simply be to preserve international rights (e.
He found his way back, how he hardly knew, to his place of business, and mechanically performed the tasks allotted him, until evening.
She set the table and went about her usual household tasksin a very half-hearted way.
When nine o'clock struck a dim remembrance come to the boy that he was still a pupil of Wygate School and had home tasks to prepare for the morrow.
The teacher who can work this impulse into the school tasks is fortunate.
On the one hand there is said to be an army of little independent "merchants" conducting business affairs of their own, while on the other there is an array of juvenile employees performing the tasks set them by their masters.
These boys are called upon to work at all hours of the day and night, their tasks being the same as those of the messengers in other cities.
Another teacher said: "I have had instances in school where children have gone to sleep over their tasks because they got up at two or three o'clock in the morning to put out city lights and to sell papers.
The social or philanthropic worker, therefore, requires thorough equipment in sociology that he may approach his tasks aright.
And daily his strength was increasing under the unaccustomed tasksimposed on his muscles.
As the dull, rumbling challenge reached the ears of those within the camp, men straightened from their tasks and looked fearfully into the heavy darkness beyond the light from the fires.
I learned also to do the daily tasks that were mine, no longer with any sense of the triviality of them or with the notion that I might have been better employed on larger things.
But even in this hedonistic bathing one's ridiculous mind makestasks for itself, and it has become an affair of duty with me to swim backwards and forwards twice to a certain rock that lies some three hundred yards away.
It would be very interesting to have information on the methods of work of the great scholars, particularly those who undertook long tasks of collection and classification.
Hardly a year passes but complaints are heard, in and about the German universities, of the ill effects produced on scholars by the tasks of criticism.
Experience here, as in the tasks of critical scholarship,[133] has decided in favour of the system of slips.
Scholars set themselves to perform, once for all, tasks of search and classification from which, thanks to them, the public will henceforth be free.
She got out her best gown that very evening, to be sure it was in proper order, and while she got supper gave Nancy and Dan an endless string of directions about their tasks in her absence.
The Goodwife set a candle in the window, and when her other tasks were finished, went back to her spinning.
The earthquake had now completely passed, and the people, roused from their terror, hastened to their homes to repair such damage as had been done and to continue the tasks which it had interrupted.
They helped themselves to hasty pudding and milk and took a dishful to Nimrod, who was now awake and looking much more lively, and then their mother set them their tasks for the day.
The first Occasion of these Bouts Rimez made them in some manner excusable, as they were Tasks which the French Ladies used to impose on their Lovers.
When the lessons and tasks are all ended And the school for the day is dismissed, And the little ones gather around me, To bid me good night and be kissed; Oh, the little white arms that encircle My neck in a tender embrace!
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