Bulgaria is a fine example of the perfect working of the German method.
The munitions men seemed to think that they were patriotically working for their own country in getting "the plant" of war into being.
And this fact accounts for the touch of handicraft lingering in the product of Latin industry, for the strength and health individually of their working classes, for their fervor of devotion to the national tradition.
Within range of shell fire this old man was calmly working to save what he might of the beauty that had been so prodigally murdered.
Some stopped to cheer in front of the Ministry of War, which these days and nights was busy as a factory working overtime and night shifts.
The English Society of Friends has given some money with which to put up wooden huts, on which old men and Belgian refugees were working when I passed that way.
The daily crowds before the poet's hotel were composed chiefly of youths, at school or college, others in working dress.
And with them should be joined all the tender-hearted and generous Americans at home who have aided their efforts, who are working with the energy of the American character "for the cause.
And while I am gone you will be workingfor us, my Sophie.
Then she took off her working frock of dirty, ill-mended serge, and shook out in triumph the folds of the black silk, now made up in all its glory, and hideous with cheap jet.
He had conceived of her as standing under the oak-tree, so that, to him, working lower down on the slope she too showed against the sky, seemingly caught in a network of delicate boughs.
Through his jersey the working of his enormous shoulders showed as plainly as those of a cat beneath her close fur, and under his chin the reddish beard could not hide the knots of his powerful throat.
The black mask filled the whole of her life, the thought of it was never out of her mind, not even when she was working on her old farm, for she had to be breadwinner now.
One day, when he was working in the garden, he turned to face the wind.
He understood the working of the native mind too well.
Even now, after telling us that he knew better, I suppose he's working up the people for to-night's show.
And before the flags, and before the generals, I saw marching along on foot the ghosts of the working party that were killed at X, gazing about them in admiration as they went, at the great city and at the palaces.
And the parapet was sliding away in places, for working parties had not had much of a chance.
Another workingparty came along next day, with clay pipes and got to work; and next day and the day after.
The engineers made their bridges, and the infantry working party went on with the digging and laying down stones.
I saw the infantry working party with their stumpy clay pipes, in my dream, a long way on from where that shell had lit, which stopped the road for a day.
They had three Tok Emmas working in that battalion front line, and the British batteries did not quite know where they were, and there were eight of them looking.
They are all women and boys that work on the farms; sometimes perhaps you see a very old man, but nearly always women and boys; they are out working early.
But another wanted to tell of the time when they cut the hay with scythes, working all those long days at the end of June; there would be no more of that, he said, with machines come in and all.
But go on working for the good of the country, and God will bless you.
I was working beside my wife's bed; she was just becoming drowsy, when a noise in the distance caught our attention.
During the month of March of this year, at the request of intelligent working men in the employ of the Government, I introduced a bill making eight hours a day's work in the navy yards of the United States.
I had not given much thought to the necessity for such legislation in this country, but the proposed measure seemed to me an augury of good to the working classes, as the Ten Hour movement had proved itself to be twenty years before.
They were now working with these men because the subjects on which they had been divided were withdrawn, and the country had entered upon a new dispensation.
I am myself inclined, as a working hypothesis, to adopt the belief in question, and to hold that past experience only affects present behaviour through modifications of physiological structure.
There were shabby villas, with stone-pines and cypresses herding about the houses, and tatters of life-plant overhanging their shabby walls; there were stucco shanties which the men and women working in the fields would lurk in at nightfall.
The German pair, perhaps from patriotic grudge, denied a working knowledge of the unfriendly tongue.
I learned later that the powerful interests that were working on me to compel his release were the same that had highly recommended him to the "Tribune.
As to Baltimore, this simplified our task, and shortly General Schenck's sagacity was again vindicated--those working in the prohibited business were ladies who moved in the upper circles of society.
Working a hunch for the biggest clean-up we ever made.
It bore in clusters and single flowers and abundant bloom, each blossom as large as the mallow, and a dark gold so rich that Ruth well-nigh listened for the murmur of bees working this mine of pollen.
There was a hardness, always working to the surface like rocks on a hard soil.
But his last shred of suspicion disappeared as Connor, working his fingers along the shoulder muscles of the animal, smiled with pleasure and admiration.
You won't have no trouble," said Townsend, as Connor sat the saddle, working the stirrups back and forth and frowning at the creaking new leather.
It's a tip-top heart; in first-class working condition.
If you understood anything about theworking of morphia, you would realise that after a dose one feels stimulated, refreshed.
The morphia naturally is soothing, but while it is working would it not be better if you were--alone?
A child was born and died; rumour reported that Sterne was working incessantly at a work which was to be the magnum opus of his life; it was said also that his wife was in delicate health, and had abandoned the dissipations of town.
There were grey-haired men by the hundred among the throng, men not only elderly, but old, working ceaselessly day by day at the same dull grind, returning at night to small houses in the suburbs.
The practical working of this system often gives to a local community an administrative veto on such general laws of the state as may be opposed to local sentiment.
This in reality accomplished a revolution in the actual working of the state governments without any corresponding change in their outward form.
No sooner, however, had the controversy with the mother country reached the acute revolutionary stage, than the forces which had been silently and unconsciously working toward democracy, found an opportunity for political expression.
Where the influence of public opinion has been so restricted, it would be but reasonable to expect that the practical working of the government would reflect something of the spirit of the Constitution itself.
But this last could never have happened if the practical working of the Constitution had been what its framers intended.
An investigation of the practical working of municipal ownership in American cities will show that this danger is not purely imaginary.
As the real power behind the government was the aristocracy of wealth, the English system, though nominally one of checks and balances, closely resembled in its practical working an unlimited aristocracy.
These were shaped by the same revolutionary movement which produced the Declaration of Independence, and were largely influenced in their practical working by the "self-evident" truths proclaimed in the latter.
Poland is the best example of the practical working of a system of checks carried to an absurd extreme.
The most superficial examination of our political history is sufficient to show that the practical working of our Constitution has in large measure defeated the end of party government.
The individual was his own employer, or, if working for another, could look forward to the time when, by the exercise of ordinary ability and thrift, he might become an independent producer.
Anne, because her mind was working upon other matter, took no offence at his sharp, discourteous, mandatory style of addressing her.
Some indeed are constantly employed in working embroidery on silks, or in painting birds, insects, and flowers on thin gauze.
Their chief merit consists in preparing the soil, working it incessantly, and keeping it free of weeds.
The first of the new year in China, and a few succeeding days, are the only holidays, properly speaking, that are observed by the working part of the community.
Leonardo borrowed these sometimes, and generally sent Giovanni to fetch them, since he was working close to the alchemist's house.
Marco was in the studio, working as usual by rule and with mathematical accuracy, perspiring and panting as if he were rolling a weight uphill.
Cesare was said to be in secret correspondence with Raphael, who was workingat the frescoes of the Vatican Stanze, and Leonardo sometimes thought treachery was meditated.
After a day spent in working for his livelihood, Leonardo felt exhausted, as by a night of fever.
One of the wings was completed; slender, sharply outlined, beautiful in form and texture, it rose from floor to ceiling, and under its shadow Astro was working at the two wooden angels of the former Milanese Republic.
IX Meantime Leonardo, careless of political events and removed from all his friends, was working on a picture begun some time ago to the order of the Servite monks of Santa Maria Annunziata at Florence.
The young Russian painter was lodged in an attic beside the dove-cot; and had arranged his working place in the recess of the dormer-window.
He is working at the countenance of the Apostle John.
The Master is working on a design, beautiful and wondrous delicate, which is to form the coat-of-arms of an academy not yet existing outside the brain of the duke.
This was the momentous tincture, the long-sought, priceless jewel of alchemy, the wonder-working lapis philosophorum.
The insufferable stench from the pot-houses, which are particularly numerous in that part of the town, and the drunken men whom he met continually, although it was a working day, completed the revolting misery of the picture.
Don't be uneasy, Rodion Romanovitch, if I wereworking for my own advantage, I would not have spoken out so directly.
His parents were very hard-working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms.
All thatworking upon a man half frantic with hypochondria, and with his morbid exceptional vanity!
For the present he, too, had been obliged to give up the university, but it was only for a time, and he was working with all his might to save enough to return to his studies again.
From the time of Svidrigaïlov's too menacing and unmistakable words in Sonia's room at the moment of Katerina Ivanovna's death, the normal working of his mind seemed to break down.
I regret to say you merely suggested without working it out clearly.
Moreover, he was conscious of immense moral fatigue, though his mind was working better that morning than it had done of late.
On working days she would go to see him at work either at the workshops or at the brick kilns, or at the sheds on the banks of the Irtish.
Until steam replaces manual power in the working of the Empire, there must always be this percentage must always be the men who are used up, expended, in the mere mechanical routine.
The delegates write from England that they are out of pocket for working expenses, railway fares, and stationery--the mere pasteboard and scaffolding of their show.
Why I have come all the way from England just to see the workingof this great National movement.
But the people outside the College, the working classes, the agriculturists; your father and mother, for instance.
She had been working her hands off for two years to send things to the negroes through these men, Still and Leech.
Next day, as Steve was working in the field, he saw Wash driving down the hill from the manager’s house with the same well-appointed rig.
I’ve got the government behind me, and when I’m Governor and get a judge such as I want, you’ll see things working even enough.
Or about that railroad scheme Bolter’s working at?
At all events he was busy the next morning working away as if nothing had been wrong overnight.
At the same time he contorted and screwed his face up into the most hideous grimaces, elongating, flattening, and working his countenance as easily as if it had been composed of soft wax, till at times his aspect was perfectly hideous.
They proved to be those of electric eels, and it now occurred to me that the round holes were made by these animals working constantly round and round in the moist, muddy soil.
They are solitary wasps, each female working on her own account.
It was an animating sight to behold the wide circle of rival diggers throwing up clouds of sand in their energetic labours, andworking gradually towards the centre of the ring.
I had exposed myself too much in the sun, working to the utmost of my strength six days a week, and had suffered much, besides, from bad and insufficient food.
They are a shrewd, hard-working people, and are the only Indians who willingly, and in a body, engage themselves to navigate the canoes of traders.
When he visited me at night he used to knock at my shutters in a manner we had agreed on, it being necessary to guard against admitting drunken neighbours, and we then spent the long evenings most pleasantly, working and conversing.
Large genera are composed in great part of such species, and it is interesting to show the great and beautiful diversity within a large genus as brought about by the working of laws within our comprehension.
The people of these parts seemed to be above working for wages.
He has his drinking bout now and then, like the common working people of other countries.
Each bird took me three hours to skin, and I was occupied with these and my other specimens every evening until midnight, after my own laborious day's hunt-- workingon the roof of my cabin by the light of a lamp.
I fitted up the cabin, which, as usual in canoes of this class, was a square structure with its floor above the waterline, as my sleeping and working apartment.
I have seen, by my computation, about twelve hundred at a morning lecture by seven o'clock on a working day, in the dark winter time.
But however many times we may be used in this way, theworking remains a mystery to us.
My hands were working to serve Mansfield, and my eyes were working or watching to serve Will, alias Isaac.
Just two weeks from the time we started from the land of slavery for that of freedom, we were settled down, independently working for our own bread, and choosing our own employers.
I was then working in the barn, and it was a convenient place for a kind of private interview, for no one at the house could see us.
He was now carrying out that resolve, and at the same time working out a portion of a plan that was not his own, and which he had been very far from foreseeing when he made the resolution.
Within a week everything was working as smoothly as though no Revolution had ever taken place.
In the afternoon Arnold had had to perform the pleasant task of showing them over the Ariel, explaining the working of the machinery, and putting the wonderful vessel through various evolutions to show what she was capable of doing.
Natas was below in the saloon, alone with his own thoughts, the thoughts of twenty years of waiting and working and gradual approach to the hour of vengeance which was now so near.
Three of the air-ships were put together at a time, twenty men working at each, and within a month from the time that the Avondale discharged her cargo, the twelve new vessels were ready to take the air.
They went down into the chief saloon, and there Arnold showed Colston a model of the new weapon with which the Ariel was armed, and thoroughly explained the working of it.
The rest of the crew of the Lucifer was found to consist of the four traitors who had carried her away, and two Russian engineers who had been put on board to assist in the working of the vessel.
Remember the tremendous issues that are gathering to their fulfilment, and the part that you have to play in working them out.
Working hard during the night, the enemy built a breastwork on the top of the hill, and the flash of their machine-gun fire could be seen directed from that position across the front of the Mosque, apparently to prevent it being occupied.
The great pleasure that these hard-working people experienced could be quite understood when some of the barbarous acts of the Turks are brought to mind, they being too well known to be dwelt upon here.
Again, it has frequently been urged that persons workingby electric light have thus induced inflammation of the eyes.
Now pull your pipe round again as before, and keepworking it until finished.
The method of working it is by first pulling up the bend, and to get out the dents, strike the rod of the snarling dummy, as shown at A, and the reaction gives a blow within the bend, throwing out the bend to any shape required.
This method of working the dummy is also taken advantage of in working up embossed vases, etc.
If you have proceeded properly with this throat part, you will not require to work up the sides or edges, as in working the throat back the sides will come up by themselves.
