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The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.
The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
Their work was lonely.
With Ramey it was a dusty work shoe that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would always remember.
He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.
But his own work was evolving further.
One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
And I was to go to work on that odd matter.
It was part of Little Jack's work to look after the dogs.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.

work and slow
A number of people became involved in the preparation but work was slow until 1937.
Power generated by muscles, however, is limited by force – velocity relationship, and even at the optimal contraction speed for power production, total work done by the muscle will be less than half of what could be done if the muscle were contracting over the same distance at very slow speeds, resulting in less than 1 / 4 the projectile launch velocity possible without the limitations of the force – velocity relationship.
This slow drying aspect of oil can be seen as an advantage for certain techniques, but in other regards it impedes the artist trying to work quickly.
And as is often the case with this director's work, the pace is so slow and the mood so reverent, that initial enchantment gives way to bored fidgeting.
The Danish cavalry, under the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( not to be confused with the Duke of Württemberg who fought with Eugene ), had made slow work of crossing the Nebel near Oberglau ; harassed by Marsin's infantry near the village, the Danes were driven back across the stream.
The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.
All of this early work assumed that light could slow down and fall, which was inconsistent with the modern understanding of light waves.
Rather, they show Selznick's mounting dissatisfaction with Cukor's slow pace and quality of work.
Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited " hot bloods " with speed and endurance ; " cold bloods ," such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavy work ; and " warmbloods ," developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particularly in Europe.
Notably, it has been extended to non-Hamiltonian systems ( starting with Moser ), to non-perturbative situations ( as in the work of Michael Herman ) and to systems with fast and slow frequencies ( as in the work of Mikhail B. Sevryuk ).
Arrests and imprisonment for various offences such as " slow pace of work " or leaving the work space were everyday occurrences
It follows that the magnetic force does no work on the particle ; it may change the direction of the particle's movement, but it cannot cause it to speed up or slow down.
The reason for the generally slow pace is to improve coordination and balance by increasing the work load, and to require the student to pay minute attention to their whole body and its weight as they perform a technique.
However, work was very slow on the engine, since John Carmack, the main programmer of Quake, was not only developing a full 3D engine, but also a TCP / IP networking model.
The slow, repetitive work involved in the process of learning how that leverage is generated gently and measurably increases, opens the internal circulation ( breath, body heat, blood, lymph, peristalsis, etc.
He made but slow progress in school work and at Christmas 1851 was removed and sent to live as a private pupil with the Rev.
The Spectrum was intended to work with a normal domestic cassette recorder, and despite differences in audio reproduction fidelity, the software loading process was quite reliable, if somewhat slow ( by today's standards ).
Perhaps the most technically challenging part of his workand that which has benefited most from the advances since his earliest pieces — is his use of extreme slow motion.
During the time that Bruckner began work on this symphony, he was aware that Wagner's death was imminent, and so the Adagio is slow mournful music for Wagner ( the climax of the movement comes at rehearsal letter W ), and for the first time in Bruckner's oeuvre, Wagner tubas are included in the orchestra.
Many enzymes work only under very precise conditions ; if the pH moves outside of a narrow range, the enzymes slow or stop working and can denature.
He led his army through the Caspian Gates, the main road through the mountains that would work to slow a following army.
A rod effective for trolling should have relatively fast action, as a very " whippy " slow action rod is extremely frustrating to troll with, and a fast action ( fairly stiff ) rod is generally much easier to work with when fishing by this method.
According to the diary of the German attache in Sofia at the time, Colonel von Schoenebeck, the two German doctors who attended the king – Sajitz and Hans Eppinger – both believed that the king had died from the same poison that Dr. Eppinger had allegedly found two years earlier in the postmortem examination of the Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas, a slow poison which takes weeks to do its work, and which causes the appearance of blotches on the skin of its victim before death.

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