2798 examples of at work in sentences

Sauvallier was at work in his office, when the door opened softly, and disclosed Andrée's curly head.

It will be a delight to me to watch the men at work; I should never grow tired of it.

My country and her Allies have seen the English at work here as clearly as if this river had been within their own borders.

In 1826, while he was blithely at work on Woodstock, the crash came.

It was there probably that men first followed the course of the stars; it was there that they first distinguished and expressed in writing the sounds of language; it was there that they began to reflect on time and space and on the powers at work in nature: the earliest traces of astronomy and chronology, of the alphabet, and of weights and measures, point to that region.

He is never seen to smile; but upon hearing any thing that pleases him, he takes up his Staff with both Hands, and lays it upon the next Piece of Timber that stands in his Way with exceeding Vehemence: After which, he composes himself in his former Posture, till such Time as something new sets him again at Work.

"We noticed the galley slaves at work; they had a peculiar dress to mark them.

The regiments which had not been engaged were at work bringing in the wounded, and Doctor Alexander and his assistants were busy at the ghastly task of amputating limbs and extracting balls.

Suppose, having collected a ship-load of broken tombstones, he should forward them to the Polynesian Museum, and set the savans of the age at work deciphering their inscriptions, what sense would be made out of these epitaphs?

Shure, I've been at work.

They ate generally allowed four weeks after the birth of a child, before they are compelled to go into the field, they then take the child with them, attended sometimes by a little girl or boy, from the age of four to six, to take care of it while the mother is at work.

The farmers were out, busy at work, their long, straight scythes glancing through the wet grass, while the thick pines sparkled with thousands of dewy diamonds.

Although I tried hard not to go, yet the Spirit was at work within me, and against my will led me to the meetings of the Young Men's Christian Association.

We were greatly pleased with his offer, and at once set the carpenter at work to prepare a house for them.

We were almost out of hope, when an honest man who was at work directed us to the next ground adjoining to a pond.

For centuries it had given expression, even to satiety, to a naive joy in the present; on this theme, all that could be said had been said, all that could be sung had been sung, and the Rhetoricians were at work with alliteration and refrain when Christianity came, and impetuously forced the language to speak the desire of the soul.

Man at work; his arts and crafts.

Doctors at work.

SEE ROGERS, WILLIAM W. Shop mathematics at work.

Samuel Rogers (A); 29Oct71; R515621. ROGERS, WILLIAM W. Blueprint reading at work, by William W. Rogers & Paul L. Welton.

Samuel Rogers (A); 29Oct71; R515621. ROGERS, WILLIAM W. Blueprint reading at work, by William W. Rogers & Paul L. Welton.

He was a conservative democrat of the strictest sort, a radical in religion, and had but little appreciation of the deeper forces at work in society and in national life.

Sitting in her place at work, she used to feel his approach, and, raising her head, she would look at him longer and longer each day.

" The Church Advocate, in March, 1870, speaking of the formation of an "Independent American Catholic Church," a movement now agitated in this country, said: "There is evidently some secret power at work which may be preparing the world for great events in the near future.

Even the sweating system could be found at work in holes and corners.

2798 examples of  at work  in sentences