1260 collocations for worked

I, myself, later worked my way a short distance, merely to examine the texture of their marvellous colour.

And slowly, as he did these things, nature was working in him that miracle of the wild which the Crees have named the "spirit call."

He will see at intervals what, from a little distance, seems like a solid wall of stone, laid with care, and upon which the lapse of centuries has wrought no change, so regular are the strata of which it is composed, while an occasional boulder, large as a house, and covered with moss, reminds him of the ruined tower of some stronghold.

Franklin's prestige and the fact that he was to set up a 'free' printing-press in Montreal were to work wonders with the educated classes at once and with the uneducated masses later on.

In the nineties each of these parts was set to work out its own salvation under its own provincial constitution.

In those homes are the women working such short hours that they can, without dropping important obligations, take over preserving, canning, dehydrating, the making of bread, soap, and butter substitute?

They are like naughty children at school, who cry or sulk and refuse to work out their problems.

The look in that eye, the beckoning power in those long, shadowy fingers would soon work havoc even in the stoutest nerves.

The toil and privations of frontier life soon wrought their natural effects upon Mrs. Davenport's delicate constitution.

"You wasn't thar, and Unc' Pros was gone, an' I thest worked the farm and took care of mother an' the little 'uns best I knowed how.

Her father was abducting a witness who could divulge Jack's whereabouts, or he was secreting Jack until be could work him harm.

Every set of children must work things out for themselves, using their own environments and their own advantages.

She can work no evil i' the sunshine.

" So saying, the bonze lifted his hands to bless the husband and wife, and then went slowly away, carrying with him the glass which had wrought such mischief. END.

" Working with a sad sincerity and with despair in their hearts, this little band of men wrought a work of surpassing importance, and if they did not receive the immediate plaudits of the living generation, their shades can at least solace themselves with the reflection that posterity has acclaimed their work as one of the greatest political achievements of man.

Large doses in quick succession will soonest work a cure.

Never nothing but my good little mother, working her hands to the bone after he got us out here to help meet the debts he left us.

And right here I mean to build a big mill and work out my plans.

At most it may determine more accurately the way in which God works out His Idea in Creation.

with that one saying he would work his country's ruin?" When the Duke of Sheh consulted him about government, he replied, "Where the near are gratified, the far will follow.

But it left a world of nations free to work out their several destinies, self-determining, not subject any more to the threat of causeless war at the hands of a government steeled to barbarity.

'tis by night she may work her spells and blast any that she will, or haunt them with goblins damned that they do run mad, or" "Enough!" cried Beltane frowning, "on me let her bewitchments fall; thus, see you, an I within this next week wither and languish 'neath her spells, then let her burn an ye will: but until this flesh doth shrivel on these my bones, no man shall do her hurt.

"'Well,' says the applicant, 'I'll work my passage as a deck hand, asking only a small portion of such spoils as we may pick up.

Your invaluable "Hints for the Family," published some time since, seem destined to work a revolution in our domestic economy; as the plans you propose must win the admiration of housekeepers by their extreme simplicity, aside from any other motives to their adoption.

He's got together a few cattle, mostly stolen I imagine; but he doesn't try to work the land.

1260 collocations for  worked