Humdrum workaday boys who did not seem capable of anything like heroism; but the war had brought out new qualities, fine qualities.
But it is not my purpose to speak of these things; I have to tell the story of a commonplace lad in a workaday town, and what influence the great world convulsion had upon his life.
The "artist has fashioned his dream of delight," and the workaday world by comparison seems tame to us.
It is a workaday world; Darby and Joan will take it as it is, will do their best.
It was as if the anguish behind the veil were something too terrible and too sacred to be looked upon by a workaday world; but Dudley only knew that a wall of reserve was between him and her trouble.
She, too, had only trifled in the beginning, seizing a little fun and adventure in her workaday world.
The Governor laughed, as if a child's fancy had intruded into the workaday routine.
The economists picked no quarrel with this formula; it served well enough for workaday purposes to indicate the lines of policy which they rightly thought essential in their day.
The workaday expression vanished from his sleepy face and a look of mental inertia came into it.
But you'd best leave her alone to her garden, as she calls it, and to her dreams, and to the hard workaday world she knows.
Suffice to say of it that it is unworldly, and yet gay with the workaday coming and going of the sardine fleets, as such a paradoxical description will permit one to imagine.
Pyjama trousers of cotton composed his entire workaday costume; dungaree trousers and a musty coat his Court dress.
We jolted into it and became harmonised once more with the rigid calendar of the workaday world.
For though the Koli is the most naked of men, his whole workaday costume consisting of one rag about equal in amplitude to half a good pocket-handkerchief, his wife is the most dressy of women.
The portrait of Eha is reproduced from one taken in 1902 in a flat on the Apollo Bunder, and shows the man as he was in workaday life in Bombay.
We did not know they made such cigars in this workaday world.
The difference between the really high-class man and us commonplace, workaday men is the difference between, say, the eagle and the barnyard chicken.
All this Lilian hardly sees as she strolls along, a world of tender thought in the sweet eyes; and the beautiful figure in the cool summer dress forms a very bright and pleasing contrast in that busy workaday throng.
Her own workaday belongings made it a little more habitable, but she felt like Iolanthe in a retired licensed victualler’s parlour.
Her hard, workaday self had risen as to a challenge.
If he only would go back to the yesterday of a month ago, and let that happy, workaday life return!
The hedge, in point of fact, is the main shelter and asylum for beasties great and small in our workaday England.
And after all, I am not without the consolations of a certain useful, workadaykind of philosophy.
But, as he said of himself, he possessed a kind of easy workaday philosophy, and, besides that, an apparently irresistible attraction for the incidents of life.
Just as the ordinary workaday Paris will always centre about some point; so, through all periods of history, the Paris of the nobles and the upper classes converges towards some particular spot.
Una Golden was not a philosopher; she was a workaday woman.
I doubt if I could explain in any workaday English even what we will attempt to do," said Philip Borsdale.
Now, reading for pastime is immensely simplified when the book's theme is some familiar matter of the reader's workaday life, because at outset the reader is spared considerable mental effort.
There are no other princes in your workaday America!
You have made me forget time, and my workaday world," he said.
Nothing here is suggestive of the onrush of time; there is no hum of the electric-car to be heard; no rush of the automobile, no smell of gasoline, and no grime of the workaday world.
In general, matters of artistic and archæological interest are wanting in this city of commercialism, of great hotels, and the hum and echo of the workaday world.
All of this is in strong contrast to theworkaday aspect of the ships which lie along the wharfs, and the long trucks and drays of wine-casks which form their cargo.
