But to startle The Corner, where gold strikes were events of every twenty-four hours, just nowwhere robberies were common gossip, and where the killings now averaged nearly three a dayto startle The Corner was like trying to startle the theatrical world with a sensational play.

He knew that Waco had never belonged to the I.W.W., but if the impending strike at the Sterling smelter became a reality a good cook would do much to hold the I.W.W. camp together.

A strike is a concerted stopping of work by a group of employees to enforce a demand upon the employer.

Employers, as a rule, are prepared to stand their losses with equanimity; in fact, when trade is dull, or when an employer desires to make changes in his business, a strike is no inconvenience at all; but the men are the real losers, and especially those with families and with small homes unpaid for; no one can measure their losses, for it may mean the savings of a lifetime.

Their Press is the victim of a regular coup de main; their Strikes are daily evidences of coups de mains; their Legislature suffers continually from coup de théâtre; and their Emperor is perpetually threatened with a coup de grace.

After the somewhat oppressive heat of last week, the sudden raw cold strikes home, and Jane and I take a great interest in the fire, the "Old Snake" is an accomplished fire-master, and it is pleasant to watch him squatting like an ungainly frog in front of the hearth, and sagaciously feeding the flame with damp and spitting logs.

Then again the tremendous strikes in which such large numbers of women and girls have been involved were an education to others than the strikersto none more than to the suffrage workers who coöperated with the ill-used girl strikers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.

Even Kirby's declaration that the ridiculous strike be a failure, and that the government would assuredly punish any damage done to the Cabell property, did not serve to impress him.

A successful strike is a good thing, for the most part, but its gains can be made permanent only if, when the excitement of the strike is over, the workers act up to their principles and keep their union together.

The strata, which are often flexuous, or slightly contorted, have a westerly dip of 60 degrees, and the strike is North-North-West and South-South-East.

He's not of mortal's temper, but he's one Made all of goodness, though of flesh and bone: O brother, brother, but for that honest man, As near to misery had been our breath, As where the thundering pellet strikes, is death.

With most, the strike has been their initiation into trade unionism, often the general strike in their own trade, the strike on a scale hitherto unparalleled in trades where either the whole or a very considerable proportion of the workers are women.

The general view seemed to be that such a strike was an intolerable nuisance, if not something worse.

The winter passed quickly enough, Bill's only concern arising from the fact that his strike had become common knowledge, and that men were clamoring to buy or to lease a part of the creek.

This strike succeeding, there has, therefore, been no case so far where the increasing rate of wages was checked by any appeal to the courts.

A strike is an expensive luxury.

Why then, strike, fool, strikehere, i' the throat, and let thy steel be hard-driven.

"Oh, well," said MacPherson, "strikes hurt worst at the time, but strikes are just like boils, a sign of something wrong inside.

There is no doubt that the Chicago strike which began among the makers of ready-made men's clothing in September, 1910, was the direct outcome of the strikes in New York and Philadelphia.

Therefore, a strike was a combination with an unlawful aim, consequently a conspiracy.

With most, the strike has been their initiation into trade unionism, often the general strike in their own trade, the strike on a scale hitherto unparalleled in trades where either the whole or a very considerable proportion of the workers are women.

" Strikes are the children of Poverty by Hope.

A scheme of this sort would not Strike a French reader as improbable, for marriage in France is often more a business arrangement than a love affair.

Shall we wait till the smouldering industrial revolution, of which all these strikes are warnings, has broken into flame?

Thus, "a man strikes" is dak klaftas, but in the past tense, dakny klaftas, the verb without the suffix being unpronounceable.