Footnote: Here, too, work was disturbed by his natural history researches.
He told me that he must work each day and could never take a holiday, but that even a few minutes' work was sufficient, as all that was necessary was that he should keep an eye on what was going on.
I should say that its most frequent work was to build a pons asinorum over chasms which shrewd people can bestride without such a structure.
It must, indeed, have been quite too evident to those who had seen him, during the last two or three years, that his life-work was finished.
It seemed at first strange to the boys that the dogs could be treated so differently from what horses would have been when the day's work was done.
A great roaring fire looked very attractive to all, even to the boys, as they had become quite accustomed to these wintry resting places when the heavy day's work was done.
They were very much surprised, however, when informed that the dogs were only fed once a day, and that that one meal was given to them in the evening, when their day's work was done.
In February, 1797, work was begun on the church, the remains of which are now to be seen.
The following year, or in 1810, work was begun on a newer and larger church of adobes, and this is doubtless the building whose ruins now remain.
On the thirtieth of the following October, work was begun, and everything seemed auspicious, when suddenly, as if God had ceased to smile upon them, terrible news came from San Diego.
Michael Hale's public room was a good large one, and as soon as the day's work was over, and supper eaten, he set everybody to doing something or other.
When the day's work was done, the men were marched back to the huts, where they had to fetch water and firewood, and to cook their food.
The bear was quickly skinned and cut up, but he was frozen almost hard before the work was finished.
And when that bit of work was finished I was full of a joyful light-heartedness; for my boat in every way was ready for the water, and I was come at last to the good ending of my long job.
Resolutely I would refrain from drinking until my work was done.
And as soon as the morning's work was done, I was out of the house and away down-town to get my first drink.
It must not, therefore, be considered as a matter of astonishment, that the greatest success of my work was at court.
And, when her day's work was done, the woman boarded a car for her home.
The disappointment was made all the more severe by reason of the fact that my place of work was where I could see the happy children passing to and from school mornings and afternoons.
One reason for this was that any one who worked in a coal-mine was always unclean, at least while at work, and it was a very hard job to get one's skin clean after the day's work was over.
In fact, the greater part of the education I secured in my boyhood was gathered through the night-school after my day's work was done.
She snatched a few moments for our care in the early morning before her work began, and at night after the day's work was done.
After a while I succeeded in making arrangements with the teacher to give me some lessons at night, after the day's work was done.
Both lived in their own families, their wages were money, and they were paid when their work was done.
Nevertheless, as grandma was away, I could not leave the place until after the day's work was done.
My work was hard, still I remained noticeably taller and stronger than she, who was assigned to lighter household duties.
Her mother had also discovered that I was anxious to be helpful, pleased when given something to do, and proud when my work was praised.
Some Jewish teachers have thought that Philo's work was a failure, others that it provides a warning rather than an example for later generations of Jews, proving the mischief of expanding Judaism for the world.
Saadia's work was carried on and expanded in a great outburst of the Jewish genius, which showed itself most brilliantly in the Moorish-Spanish kingdom.
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