| Precious truths - 1882 - 112 pages
...early, lest the darkness should overtake us in the way. If we have a very difficult and important piece of work to do, and very little time to do it in, we set about it at once, if we are wise, so as to finish it before " the night cometh, when no man... | |
| Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1883 - 472 pages
...get a driveway from my barn to my pasture, in order to get my cows conveniently across a meadow. I had a great deal of work to do, and very little time for making fence. I bought barbed wire, took a few old posts and stakes that 1 had, put them in about... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 348 pages
...I look as if I were going to have heatapoplexy ? " " 'Never can tell," said William, wisely. " It's always best to be ready." She had arranged her compartment...little time to do it in, had taught her the wisdom ot effacing, as well as of fending for, herself She did not by word or deed suggest that she would... | |
| 1861 - 520 pages
...early, lest the darkness should overtake us in the way. If we have a very difficult and important piece of work to do, and very little time to do it in, we set about it at once, if we are wise, so as to finish it before " the night cometh, when no man... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1922 - 208 pages
...characteristic of the girl that, her plan of action once settled, she asked for no comments on it. Life with men who had a great deal of work to do, and very little...tea was ended, and made cigarettes for her guests. William the Conqueror. THEN THEY came to an India more strange to them than to the untravelled Englishman... | |
| John Kucich - 2009 - 272 pages
...willingly submits to pain, suffering, and sexual renunciation in the relief of famine victims: "Life with men who had a great deal of work to do, and very little...in, had taught her the wisdom of effacing as well as offending for herself" (DW, 194). The actual mismanagement of colonial conditions by British officials... | |
| Daniel P. Miller - 2006 - 213 pages
...the rest. They realize that the day they have prepared for is upon them. "Gentlemen, we have a lot of work to do and very little time to do it in. We've been given the assignment of escorting all non-military personnel to Patriot Station. The evac... | |
| L. A. Stapley - 1880 - 162 pages
...to-morrow or the next day. It is not convenient for me to give him a holiday at ail, because there is a great deal of work to do, and very little time to do it in. How much wood does the carpenter require to make a book box for you ? — You had best ask the carpenter... | |
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