When this service expired, he worked as a journeyman for nine or twelve months, and then emigrated to the United States.
The experiment was a failure, because, as he declared, the charm under which he worked was broken by the inopportune remarks of his attendant.
She cared for you and Michael, and she worked ceaselessly for the cause of the oppressed.
But he somehow egged Maitland on until, by the middle of the vacation, he had worked him up into such a state that Barrett had to send Maud into a rest cure for her health, so as to get a little rest himself.
But now she has worked it out again, and she says Dulcie was right after all.
Perhaps this place was worked as a mine a hundred years before the smugglers used the cave, and they have not been here, I should say, for two or three generations.
All that week his mother worked day and night on a fine new native costume for him to wear on the great occasion.
Accordingly he removed his boots and slowly worked his way up the tree to a position where he could see within.
Larescu, some distance in front of them, had reached the crest of the precipitous mountain-side up which they had so laboriously worked their way.
Inch by inch he worked his way on the swaying branch, fearing each second that it would give way under his weight.
They are foreign built, and worked by Spaniards and Frenchmen.
They are generally composed of cotton and worsted, and are embroidered in gaudy colours and patterns; the correct thing is to have the owner's name worked in on the edge, which ought to be done by the delicate hand of his beloved mistress.
The courts worked overtime and the jails were soon filled.
Elimination of the middleman worked upward, much as does a disease that has its bed in the slums.
The government has indeed provided sick benefits and old-age pensions, but these, in effect, were little more than a promise that when the man wasworked to the bone he would still be able to drag on existence.
Whether or no it worked consciously toward that end I am not prepared to say.
For those that are anti-militarist enough to continue thinking there is the censorship and sedition laws, both of which worked smoothly enough in Germany and the countries of her allies.
Inventors and cranksworked at them for nearly two years.
But, on the whole, the arrangement worked smoothly enough.
Some of the men had worked well, but most of them had shown ability only in shirking.
The clocks were set ahead an hour, so that people rose shortly after dawn, worked their customary ten hours in the shops and factories, and then still had enough daylight to work in their gardens.
They worked and worked on; who should tell which was the most assiduous--which the fairest--which the most eager and successful to increase the happiness of all!
I hope my letter will find you feeling much better for the rest you have worked so hard for.
The (job) brougham horse used to look dreadfully lean and tired, and the livery-stable keeper complained that we workedhim too hard.
I would not give much for a vegetable garden that had to be planted in the spring, worked all summer, tended all fall, and that only yielded its product in the winter.
Millington and Rolfs, during the winter, worked off some of their surplus chicken energy writing letters to the poultry periodicals.
I workedtwo hours over my automobile," said Millington, "and she is knocking again as usual.
I have never seen anything so devilish as that wretch as he workedwith inhuman agility and haste.
He broke down on the eve of battle, had to be sent to the rear in an ambulance, and the regiment said he would be wise to resign: so for once wisdom and Hoover worked together.
A policeman had tried to drive him back when he would have worked his way up along 28's line of hose, and Desmond gave him the big nozzle to take forward to the pipeman.
And if the astute Beach had any lingering doubt as to whether the boys worked that game themselves or not the doubt is banished now.
Meeker called his lads up three at a time, at the beginning of the next new system, and smiled to see how smoothly it worked and how uncommonly still the lads were.
This worked beautifully just once, then the hands would go up in blocks of five, and the class as one boy would exclaim "Astonishing!
He was watching the two men moving around the shining engine, which worked smoothly and unceasingly, and its condition showed how carefully it was tended.
Juarez could hear clearly the sound of axes as the boys worked upon their fort on the hill.
They worked around to the slope above the cabin of the Gus Gols gang.
When he returned he found Juarez and Jeems standing near looking very sober, while the old captain and Jim worked over him.
Jim and Juarez worked together, Tom and Jo also, while Jeems Howell was a lone prospector, and it seemed indeed like old times to him.
Jeems Howell was about done for, and had to be worked over for some time; Jo also had shipped considerable salt water, but Jim and Juarez were in tolerable condition considering the experience they had been through.
We mustn't stir up the city if we can help it; with giants running around, the people would get worked up to a frenzy.
It probably would have worked out all right," finished the Big Business Man.
Steve summoned the boys who were not working the windlass to the after part of the boat in order to lighten the bow as much as possible, and theyworked on.
Clinging like a leech to the canted roof of the forward cabin, Steve himself worked along with the rope and, half-drowned in rain and surf, made it fast to the cleat.
He declared his intention of purchasing a yachting cap at the first port of call and having the inscription "Crew" worked on it in gold bullion.
The plates held the same design that was worked into the napery, as did even the knives and forks and spoons.
It was so quiet that when Perry suddenly worked the fog-horn Han almost fell over the wet rail on which he was sitting.
The two cruisers worked cautiously around to the leeward side of the Catspaw, the Adventurer's tender was dropped over and Steve, Joe and Han climbed in.
I've worked pretty hard for 'coons, first and last, but this beats all the hunts I ever engaged in.
I tell you," said Charles, "you fellows worked it pretty well.
The boys worked for an hour and a half--taking their turns at chopping--almost without speaking.
We hadn't gone more'n half the distance acrost the prairy, when a loud crash and yells of triumph told us, plain enough, that the villains had worked their way out of the cellar.
But that was all the information concerning the ship's navigation he could steal; for Captain Doane took the observations and worked them out, to the exclusion of the mate, and Captain Doane always methodically locked up his chart and log.
And the dog is Mister Kennan's dog, a fine man, and I have worked for him two years.
It compelled him to work the harder, although his wife and the four sons and three daughters did not dream that he actually worked at all.
Like hundreds of thousands of others, I have worked in other fields, striving to organize the mass of mankind into movements for the purpose of ameliorating its own wretchedness and misery.
Never were there more dainty and lovable topmasts on a three- masted schooner, and never was there a three-masted schooner that worked like the witch she was to windward.
The theft of a dog to sell for a price had been the abasement worked by Michael on Dag Daughtry.
He worked quickly, boring cask after cask down the alleyway that led to deeper twilight.
They composed a sort of reserve of raw material, to be worked into established troupes when an extra one or a substitute was needed.
For two years I worked for a dollar and a half a week in the laundry.
Her men worked like fiends; sailors pitched in to help the firemen handle coal, while the shores of the dark little inlet flared brightly with the gleam of the furnaces.
But the sturdy sailors worked with a will, and the distance was not very great.
It was quite a task in that heavy sea, but the eager sailors worked with a will, and though nearly swamped twice, managed to get clear of the tug.
It was a hot place, but the men worked coolly on, determined that their orders should be executed at all hazards.
The heiress had a new beau--a bulky blond named Neddie Roper--who was reputed a social lion and a railway magnate, although it afterward transpired he worked in the Pullman shops.
He worked for Jarrod mornings and in the afternoons and evenings enjoyed himself thoroughly.
They were worked for the most part by Venusians allied with Ku Sui: the Eurasian practically controlled the drug trade; and therefore, if any alarm had been broadcast, many men would already be on the lookout for him.
He had worked them out as far as he could with typical thoroughness.
The call for help was at once sent over to the State of Texas, and we worked all night getting out supplies and sending them ashore with a force of Cubans, only too glad to work for food.
Three of the five Sisters went into the operating tent, and with the surgeons worked for thirty hours with only a few moments' rest now and then for a cup of coffee and a cracker or piece of bread.
They workednight and day, without rest, determined to unload the entire cargo themselves, without help.
They worked night and day for forty-eight hours, with only brief intervals for coffee and hard-tack.
Twelve women worked along with them in the same spirit, in the ship and on the dock, with needles, sewing up the rents in the bags, to prevent waste in handling, and cooking meals for the men.
It is our joy and pride to recall how closely we worked in connection with that honored committee from first to last, and how strong and unsullied that friendship has remained.
I've worked with men--done a man's work among the newspapers.
Sometimes, she talked as she worked (sitting low beneath the skylight, so that every change of light was in her hair, while the spring matured outside).
Often Bedient was allowed to stay while she worked at other things.
Beth worked with uncommon energy for many minutes.
Still Bedient slowly realized that the hundreds of natives in touch with Captain Carreras' plantations worked about as well for him as they knew.
Her sandals were of white leather, and she wore armlets and bracelets of beautifully worked iron encrusted with precious stones.
As the stiffness and cramp worked out of their limbs they were able to increase their pace, until within a few minutes they were trotting to and fro across the mass and feeling almost warm once more.
This done, and the calculations workedout and checked, the march was resumed; the outer edge of the forest through which their route lay being reached shortly after noon.
For I have had that emerald mine of ours upon my mind for some time, and have felt a bit puzzled as to how it was to be worked to our mutual advantage.
If I went on to New York there would be nothing for me to do, while I have a scheme in my head that can be worked out in Europe as well as, or better than, in New York.
It is not," admitted Dick, "although it worked away back there, and it may again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
