When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

`` My dress needs some work on it ''.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

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.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

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.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

Then she rounded on Weston and cried, `` You always did Wright's dirty work!!

Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.

Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

And I was to go to work on that odd matter.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.

Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.

The work week of attendants who are on duty 65 hours and more per week should be reduced.

But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

`` Argiento, this is senseless '', he complained, not liking to work on the wet floors, particularly in cold weather.

Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

`` How you going to work with a child hanging on you ''??

* 529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis ( a fundamental work in jurisprudence ) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.

I believe that he purposely deceived me, using the possibility of joining the ROTC as a ploy to work with the draft board to delay his induction and get a new draft classification.

After finishing the trios, in the fall of 1808, he began sketching the Choral Fantasy, the work considered to be the " first draft " of the last movement of the Symphony No. 9.

Its main functions are to organize meetings, draft documents, assist member governments in the implementation of the programme of work, coordinate with other international organizations, and collect and disseminate information.

Many people at the time viewed horse-drawn transit as unnecessarily cruel, and the fact that a typical horse could work only four or five hours per day necessitated the maintenance of large stables of draft animals that had to be fed, housed, groomed, medicated and rested.

In 2002 the Ethnologue was asked to work with the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) to integrate its codes into a draft international standard.

The Manifesto supported the creation of an eight-hour work day for all workers, a minimum wage, worker representation in industrial management, equal confidence in labour unions as in industrial executives and public servants, reorganization of the transportation sector, revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance, reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55, a strong progressive tax on capital, confiscation of the property of religious institutions and abolishment of bishoprics, and revision of military contracts to allow the government to seize 85 % of their profits.

* XHTML 2. 0 was a working draft, but work on it was abandoned in 2009 in favor of work on HTML5 and XHTML5.

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.

Thus, powerful but refined breeds such as the Andalusian or the Lusitano developed in the Iberian peninsula as riding horses that also had a great aptitude for dressage, while heavy draft horses such as the Clydesdale and the Shire developed out of a need to perform demanding farm work and pull heavy wagons.

This type of harness is needed for heavy draft work.

The Governing Body decides the agenda of the International Labour Conference, adopts the draft programme and budget of the organization for submission to the conference, elects the director-general, requests information from member states concerning labour matters, appoints commissions of inquiry and supervises the work of the International Labour Office.

During the Vietnam War, he received six student draft deferments and one occupational deferment because of his teaching work.

There he collected over 4, 000 verses and completed the first draft of his work.

Lane invited Mather to come to Washington, DC to work with him to draft and see passage of the National Park Service Organic Act, which the 64th United States Congress enacted and which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law on August 25, 1916.

A draft is designated experimental if it is unclear the proposal will work as intended or unclear if the proposal will be widely adopted.

Following Champollion's sudden death in 1832, his draft of this analysis could not be found, and Letronne's work stalled.

By the end of 1990, most of the work on mapping existing character encoding standards had been completed, and a final review draft of Unicode was ready.

Then, between 27 and 30 August 1865, he took up Parsifal again and made a prose draft of the work ; this contains a fairly brief outline of the plot and a considerable amount of detailed commentary on the characters and themes of the drama.

By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto ( or “ poem ”, as Wagner liked to call his libretti ).

The second draft was begun on 25 September 1877, just a few days after the first: at this point in his career Wagner liked to work on both drafts simultaneously, switching back and forth between the two so as not to allow too much time to elapse between his initial setting of the text and the final elaboration of the music.

Most orchestrators often work from a draft ( sketch ), or short score, that is, a score written on limited number of independent musical staves.