Either some passion is gnawing at him inwardly, or some hidden disease is at work upon him.
But it must have the right brain to work upon, and I doubt if there is any brain to which it is so congenial and from which it brings so much as that of a first-rate London old lady.
I am the more willing to mention it as it suggests a puzzle which some of the company may like to work upon.
When comb is put into tumblers or other small vessels, the bees will begin to work upon it the sooner, if it is simply crowded in, so as to be held in place by being supported against the sides.
I have seldom attempted night-work upon my bees, without having occasion most thoroughly to rue my folly.
If he comes to them and forbears to work upon them by his word, they perish: if he worketh on them, but not effectually, they perish.
We love to see things that bear a good gloss; yea, we choose to buy such kind of matter to work upon, as will, if wrought up to what we intend, cast that lustre that we desire.
Little candles shine but little, for there wanteth matter for the fire to work upon; but in the great sinner, here is more matter for grace to work by.
I asked him to sit for what I was at work upon: this was a wicket-keeper in a cricket match bending over the wicket.
As I gazed on the scene of grandeur I felt profoundly moved by the picturesque effect, and the following morning discovered me hard at work upon a most elaborate study of the beautiful carved figures upon the confessional boxes.
He is only groping after Him, but he will not say a word beyond what he knows and feels; and, therefore, there is something in him to work upon; and faith is already beginning to bud and blossom.
The revelation had to be complete before He who came to unfold the meaning of the revelation had material to work upon.
A term for punishing a man by keeping him unnecessarily at work upon disagreeable or difficult duty.
To put a marlinspike in a man's hand and set him to work upon a piece of rigging, is considered a fair trial of his qualities as an able seaman.
Once we can establish a motive," I said, "we shall have something to work upon in our hunt for evidence.
Either the talent I had always thought I possessed for detective work was non-existent, or else there was not enough for me to work upon.
My dear sir, according to your statement, the only clue we have to work uponis the weapon which was used.
That keen chisel of necessity which sharpened the tiger's claw age by age and fined down the clumsy Orchippus to the swift grace of the horse, was at work upon him--is at work upon him still.
There the infantry were set to work upon a line of masked entrenchments and hidden rifle pits between St Hubert and Virton that were designed to check and delay any advance from the east upon the fortified line of the Meuse.
For it is in vain that you polish the mirror if there are no images to be reflected; and it is as necessary that the intellect should be supplied with fit matter to work upon, as with safeguards to guide its working.
By such a natural history then as I have described, I conceive that a safe and convenient approach may be made to nature, and matter supplied of good quality and well prepared for the understanding to work upon.
When it opened he was still at work upon Dombey and Son; towards its end he was already engaged upon the earliest portions of Bleak House.
No sooner had the heaviest stress of the first series of readings ceased than Dickens was once more at work upon a new fiction.
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