193 Verbs to Use for the Word jobs

" "I know I got a big job, Jimmie, but I want to make a man out of you, temper, laziness, gambling, and all.

I want to take hold of your life and finish the job of making it the kind we can both be proud of.

"Lost your job, hey?"

I found you in one, and as yellow-fingered and as loafing as they come, a new job a week, a" "Yeh, and there was some pep to variety, too.

She thought of starting a store or taking a government job so she could earn money to take care of the missionary work.

Cartwright knew Brown's habits when he gave him the job, although, in an important sense, the job was Lister's.

" "All the same, at the beginning, I held up the job.

As they're such good boys, I don't suppose they'll try anything of the kind; but we might undertake the job, and do it for them.

"I'm out of work and would like a job, sir.

You can go and see if any of the other fellows want a job.

" "Man," I said, "what made you leave a clean job for the ravings of yesterday?"

"On the track you're all right if you know your job; at headquarters you need qualities I don't know are mine.

Then came the evening when the Boy was so late the Colonel got his own breakfast; and when the recreant did get home, it was to announce that a man over at the Buckeyes' had just offered him a job out on Indian River.

Many a younger and stronger person than Mary would be afraid to tackle the job she had planned to do.

Thought he might mean trouble and I'd better come along" "Well," he resumed, "I'm sorry I handled the job clumsily, since I might have hurt you worse; but I hated the fellow on my own account and saw red.

" "Ifif you keep running around till all hours of the night, with me and ma waiting up for you, kicking up rows and getting your name insinuated in the newspapers as 'the tall, handsome blonde,' II'm going to throw up my job, I am, and you can pay double your share for the running of this flat.

It took the Circus Cotton-Tails and Bunny and Susan just exactly one hour and sixteen minutes to put up the merry-go-round, and Grandpa Grumbles bossed the job.

But when he lost his swamper, smitten without warning at the noon halt, Salty quit his job; he said it was "too durn hot."

We would have only a few hours of sleep before we would all be on duty again at 9 a.m. to complete the last minute jobs before the festival got started.

This would be possible and probably certain under the scheme proposed, but barring this, it is surely an open question whether the pretty thoroughly standardized curriculum now in operation would not be considerably modified to advantage if it is recognized that the prime object of education is character rather than mental training and the fitting of a pupil to obtain a paying job on graduation.

I'm selfish enough to want you-that is about 99.9% of me is selfish, the other infinitesimal part cries out for me to play the manand do the square thingI am making a bad job of this, but maybe you understand.

I know how she keeps her job all right, all right.

"I'm glad you want me to go," he said, renewing the conversation as they started around the house, "because I wanted to and, well, anyhow it's my job" "What do you mean 'your job'?"

Shabby and hungry, he sought a "job" at anything, avoiding all acquaintances, for his pride would not allow him to make this sort of an appeal to them.

" "For example?" "You'll probably get bored, but in Canada I turned down a pretty good job because it was monotonous.

193 Verbs to Use for the Word  jobs