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.

In 1827 Ampère published his magnum opus, Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l ’ experience ( Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience ), the work that coined the name of his new science, electrodynamics, and became known ever after as its founding treatise.

In the 290s, Eusebius began work on his magnum opus, the Ecclesiastical History, a narrative history of the Church and Christian community from the Apostolic Age to Eusebius ' own time.

Much of Cudworth's work still remains in manuscript ; A Treatise concerning eternal and immutable Morality was published in 1731 ; and A Treatise of Freewill, edited by John Allen, in 1838 ; both are connected with the design of his magnum opus, the Intellectual System.

He continued to use it on his studio albums until his death in 1993, culminating in the posthumous release of his magnum opus Civilization, Phaze III ( by Zappa's estimation, 70 % of this two-hour work is exclusively Synclavier.

Building on his early work with Mauss, Durkheim's definitive statement concerning the sociology of knowledge comes in his magnum opus The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

His books on this subjects include: Das Verfehmte Geschlecht ( in German, 1970 ), Sex en Straf (" Sex and Punishment ", 1972 ), Over pedofielen en kinderlokkers (" On Pedophiles and Child Molesters ", 1975 ), and his last work is his magnum opus and entitled Loving Boys ( two volumes, 1988 – 1990 ).

In 1758, Helvétius published his philosophical magnum opus, a work called De l ' esprit ( On Mind ).

Schenker's magnum opus, Neue Musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (" New Musical Theories and Fantasies "), spans his entire publication career from the early work, Harmonielehre (" Harmony ") ( volume I ) through the formative Kontrapunkt (" Counterpoint ") ( volumes II. 1 and II. 2 ) to the posthumously published Der Freie Satz (" Free Composition ") ( volume II. 3 ).

In February 1766 he published the first volume of Commentaries on the Laws of England, considered his magnum opus-the completed work earned Blackstone £ in terms.

In 1629 he produced his magnum opus as a critic, his commentary on Gaius Julius Solinus's Polyhistor, or rather on Pliny the Elder, to whom Solinus is indebted for the most important part of his work.

This was followed by the work Blitzstein intended to be his magnum opus, a three-act opera commissioned by the Ford Foundation and optioned by the Metropolitan Opera entitled Sacco and Vanzetti.

Three years later Thomas handed the duke a magnum opus, the manuscript of De Etruria Regali Libri Septem, " Seven Books about Royal Etruria ", in the Latin language, the first detailed study of every aspect of Etruscan civilization, considered a brilliant work.

Magnum opus ( plural: magna opera, also opus magnum / opera magna ), from the Latin meaning " great work ", refers to the largest, and perhaps the best, greatest, most popular, or most renowned achievement of a writer, artist, composer or craftsman.

Sometimes the term magnum opus is used to refer to simply " a great work " rather than " the great work " of a specific person.

The term " magnum opus " is distinguished in usage from " masterpiece " by a requirement that it is a work on a large scale, and by the absence of a requirement that it is generally regarded as among the creator's most successful works.

He had long contemplated, and had in part written, a work on English economic and legal history, which would have been his magnum opus, a more substantial fruit of his genius and his labors than anything he has left.

Henry's magnum opus was a six-volume work entitled God, Revelation, and Authority, completed in 1983.

Dorn's main work, his magnum opus, is Gunslinger.

Combined with an exhaustive study of classic Greek and Roman sources, he crowned his work with his magnum opus Ancient Society ( 1877 ).

In 1902, his magnum opus, Der moderne Kapitalismus ( Historisch-systematische Darstellung des gesamteuropäischen Wirtschaftslebens von seinen Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart ), appeared in two volumes ( he expanded the work in 1916, and added a third volume in 1927, all three volumes where then split into semi-volumes for a total of six books ).

During this time ( in 1967 ) he began work on his magnum opus, the Jahrestage and edited Das neue Fenster ( The new window ), a textbook of German-language readings for English-speaking students learning German.

Has spent many years working on a magnum opus on the history of Greyfriars, which is often referred to as ' Quelchy's tosh ', and disappears periodically to work on it.

Before leaving St. Olaf College, he completed work on his magnum opus, the two-volume Systematic Theology ( 1997 – 99 ), which has since been widely regarded as one of the most important and creative recent works of systematic theology.

It was there that he started to work on his magnum opus, the Etymological dictionary of the Russian language.