104 examples of overseeing in sentences

The great trouble is that now, as always, men want women to do the work while they do the overseeing.

He was a man who gave personal attention to all his affairs, and was in the habit of overseeing the laborers on his public works.

Let it be considered how much labour is lost by the persons overseeing the forced labourer, which is saved when he works for his own profit.

The sun set, and the family withdrew into the house, as usual, to trust to the overseeing care of Divine Providence, throughout a night passed in a wilderness.

He was later overseeing clerk of the king's works.

It was Wordsworth's deepest conviction that any one alive to the presence of nature's conscious spiritual force, that "rolls through all things" "Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.

His time was passed in overseeing his large estate, and in out-of-door sports, following the hounds or fishing, exchanging visits with prominent Virginia families, amusing himself with card-playing, dancing, and the social frivolities of the day.

But the sort of public spirit that scamps its bread-winning work, whether with the trowel, the pen, or the overseeing brain, that it may hurry to scenes of political or social agitation, would be as baleful a gift to our people as any malignant demon could devise.

"You have brains, and that is the great thing needful in overseeing cooking.

They said our master was a good man but awful rough wid his slaves and the hands overseeing too.

Those overseers who follow the business of overseeing for a livelihood, are generally the most unprincipled and abandoned of men.

Mr. P. was almost entirely released from the care of overseeing the work: he could trust it to the slaves.

Those overseers who follow the business of overseeing for a livelihood, are generally the most unprincipled and abandoned of men.

My father was smoking his doodeen in the chimney corner, my mother was overseeing the girls that were tonging the flax, and I and the other gossoons were doing nothing at all, only roasting praties in the ashes.

His youngest son done his overseeing.

Both at Laytonstone and at Madeley, she attended carefully to her household, overseeing every thing connected with what is technically termed the women's department, with particular scrupulousness.

I don't keep none of yer cussed overseers; I does my own overseeing and I tell ye things is seen to.

The house could go on without his making the rounds daily from the cellars to the roof, overseeing even the slightest spigot.

When he was in the streets, overseeing the labours of his men, this pavior-artist usually rehearsed one of his characters, muttering the lines, gesticulating, and almost forgetting that he was without the sacred walls of a theatre.

Then there is the actual personal labor of helping to get the paper to press each week, choosing from a limited supply suitable illustrations, writing some "copy," writing heads, making up, dictating and signing hundreds of letters each week, seeing all callers who need to be seen, and constantly directing and overseeing to keep matters of a thousand and one details ship-shape and accurate.

This is very satisfactory for small enterprises, where the master works with his own hands alongside of the employee, overseeing him, teaching him, and stimulating him by his own presence and example of industry.

The dead man is represented overseeing all this.

I'm spending considerable time in your town at present, as I'm overseeing the wintering of something like a hundred saddle horses and two hundred and fifty of our thoroughbred bulls.

The thing that ground upon his heart was the firm footfall of Mrs. Jones, a neighbor woman, who was overseeing the affairs of the household.

During the remainder of the afternoon Joe was busy writing his resignation and arranging to have his property transferred from Chicago, while Mr. Holmes and Jim were away from the house overseeing the work of the ranch.

104 examples of  overseeing  in sentences