35 Metaphors for labour

I see you love me still, The labours of my hand are still your joy; Bethink you of the hour when on your shoulder I hung this belt.

His labour is the travail of love, by the rule of grace to find the highway to heaven.

Labour is not a curse, it is rather one of the greatest of the earthly blessings of man, provided its sanctity is recognized and its performance is accomplished with satisfaction to the labourer.

" The industrious labour of some editors in disinterring the trivial works of great men is not a commendable industry.

The road lies plain before me;'tis a theme 640 Single and of determined bounds; and hence I choose it rather at this time, than work Of ampler or more varied argument, Where I might be discomfited and lost: And certain hopes are with me, that to thee 645 This labour will be welcome, honoured Friend!

American labour is very largely immigrant labour still separated by barriers of language and tradition from the established thought of the nation.

All these matters have since been thoroughly worked out by our General Staff, but the theoretical labours of the General Staff are by no means the common property of the army.

" By the way, what a colossal labour must have been the preparation of the above Dictionary.

The old adage that "labour is wealth," and that a nation's riches consist in its hardy sons and daughters of toil, will yet be proved true.

420 These exercises for my thoughts I find; These labours are the chariots of my mind.

You merely find that Labour's a little biterinconsiderate, sometimes?' 'Look what happens across the Border!

It is generally in some shady grove, secluded and cool; here of an evening when the labours of the day are over, the most stalwart sons of the hamlet meet, to test each others skill and endurance in a friendly shake.

Let one rejoice in smiles, the other in tears; Let the same labour or pain be the office of both.

Labour being here the especial portion of slaves, it is thenceforth degraded, and considered unworthy of all but slaves.

YOU SEE, LABOUR IS SO DEAR."

Labour and Capital, and so on?" "'Labour and Capital' is a meaningless and misleading expression, Bobby.

for "to work like a Negro" is a common phrase, which is understood to convey the meaning, that the labour of the Negroes is the most severe and intolerable that is known.

His hardest labour is his tongue, as if he were loath to use so deceitful an organ; and he is best company with it when he can but prattle.

As an [5602]idle sedentary life, liberal feeding, are great causes of it, so the opposite, labour, slender and sparing diet, with continual business, are the best and most ordinary means to prevent it.

'Endless labour to be wrong,' iii. 158, n. 3. ENGLAND.

His labour is mere blustering and fury, and his speech like that of sailors in a storm, a thousand businesses at once; yet, in all this tumult, he does not love combustion, but will be the first man that shall go and quench it.

Except the Lord the house sustain, The builder's labour is in vain; Except the city he defend, And to the dwellers safety send, In vain are sentinels prepared, Or arméd watchmen for the guard.

Easter day says, Your labour is not vanity and vexation of spirit.

" "Labour is prayer," remarked his father, as if he were enunciating something strikingly original.

Elizabeth's labours among the poor are too well known throughout one half at least of Christendom, where she is, par excellence, the patron of the poor, to need quotations.

35 Metaphors for  labour