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Example sentences for "working away"

  • Herby is working away in the best spirits.

  • My artist boy is working away cheerily at the R.

  • Mr. Morse[28] is working away desperately at the bust of you; he feels as if he would get on famously if he could only catch a glimpse of you.

  • Giddy is sitting by me with her nose in the French Dictionary, working away at a novel of Balzac's.

  • He is working away at a new edition of the "Descent of Man," for which I have given him some notes on the brain question.

  • So I am working away at my draft--from the point of view of an aesthetic jeweller.

  • I am working away at Harvey, and will send the manuscript to Virtue's as soon as I am sufficiently forward.

  • I am working away (he writes) in a leisurely comfortable manner at my chapter for Ward's Jubilee book, and have got the first few pages done, which is always my greatest trouble.

  • At this moment she is working away at the folds of his garment with much devotion--and black oil paint.

  • Sponge, working away as if he had the dice-box in his hand.

  • I am working away as hard as I can on my book; but good heavens, how slow my progress is.

  • I am working away as hard as I can at all the multifarious kinds of movements of plants, and am trying to reduce them to some simple rules, but whether I shall succeed I do not know.

  • I am working away on some points in vegetable physiology, but though they interest me and my son, yet they have none of the fascination which the fertilisation of flowers possesses.

  • Charlie Thomason is here, working away as an engineer.

  • It does me good to see the "Light of the ballroom" working away at his guns, begrimed with dust and heat, ever cheery and cool, though dead beat from fatigue and exposure.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black letter; food products; fortnight since; great distinction; inches broad; leave thee; little milk; lively interest; more precise; much amused; ordinary language; other similar; three fathoms; working away; working drawings; working girl; working girls; working hypothesis; working miracles; working order; working parties; working party; working people; working power; working together; working women