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work and was
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 culmination
National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.
The CMB's serendipitous discovery in 1964 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work initiated in the 1940s, and earned them the 1978 Nobel Prize.
He has had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.
The culmination of his life's work was the Institutio oratoria ( Institutes of Oratory, or alternatively, The Orator's Education ), a lengthy treatise on the training of the orator in which he discusses the training of the " perfect " orator from birth to old age and, in the process, reviews the doctrines and opinions of many influential rhetoricians who preceded him.
In 1990, the avant-garde musician Diamanda Galas performed Plague Mass, a culmination of her work dedicated to the victims of the AIDS epidemic.
" Undoubtedly, his most famous work is the TWA Flight Center, which represents the culmination of his previous designs and demonstrates his expressionism and the technical marvel in concrete shells.
Russell wrote: " Piltdown was not a ' one-off ' hoax, more the culmination of a life's work.
According to the composer, this work is the culmination of his two other biographical operas, Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha ( about Mohandas Gandhi ).
Bernard Lonergan's hermeneutics is less well-known, but in a series of masterly articles, Fred Lawrence has outlined a case for considering his work as the culmination and achievement of the postmodern hermeneutical revolution that began with Heidegger.
This is far from obvious, however, and represented the culmination of some decades of work.
The quad was the culmination of the work undertaken by Sir Henry Savile at the beginning of the 17th century.
It supported Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as simply the best painting of its day and the culmination of an art tradition going back via Cubism and Cézanne to Monet, in which painting became ever ' purer ' and more concentrated in what was ' essential ' to it, the making of marks on a flat surface.
The culmination of her work was the Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane, legislation to set aside of Federal land ( for the benefit of the insane and the remainder for the " blind, deaf, and dumb "), with proceeds from its sale distributed to the states to build and maintain asylums.
Regardless, however, of the extent of Diderot's contribution to the System of Nature, it is on the basis of this work that d ' Holbach's philosophy has been called " the culmination of French materialism and atheism.
Stars coach Dean Meminger called the game the " culmination of a year of hard work ".
The culmination of the Baroque era was undoubtedly in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach in the first half of the 18th century.
Shortly after the release of Ptolus, which Cook has often described as the culmination of his original ambitions for Malhavoc, he announced that he would be focusing on writing fiction and other forms of creative work he has not yet specified, rather than role-playing games, for the foreseeable future.
The culmination of that work is the book, Frontiers of Propulsion Science, which was published in February 2009, by the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ).
The album is a culmination of the band's previous work.
Fétis ’ main theoretical work and the culmination of his conceptual frameworks of tonality and harmony is the Traité complet de la théorie et de la pratique de l ’ harmonie of 1844.
Ferguson's research opened the way for many of the achievements of the Celtic Revival, especially those of Yeats and Douglas Hyde, but this narrative of Irish poetry which leads to the Revival as culmination can also be deceptive and occlude important poetry, such as the work of James Henry ( 1798 – 1876 ), medical doctor, Virgil scholar and poet.
The culmination of Deschamp's work at the castle was the publication of Les Châteaux des Croisés en Terre Sainte I: le Crac des Chevaliers in 1934, with detailed plans by Anus.
The design up to then had been the culmination of work done by Porsche who had won the contract for the heavy tank that March.
For Carlson, the commercial success of the Xerox 914 was the culmination of his life's work: a device that could quickly and cheaply make an exact copy of an existing document.

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