"Labor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... He then let it fall—simply by its own weight—producing a tiny indentation such as might be caused by the kick of one's heel It required about three such strokes, if they could so called strokes, to detach one single small stone. After that exhausting labor the man stood at ease for a few minutes, so that there were often three or four at once staring about them, while several others lounged against the wooden railing placed to ...
— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies
... principles of socialism and anarchy are not unlikely to pervade the South, and if the masses of blacks are ever exploited by a central, unknown and irresponsible committee of agitators, the results must be a new reign of terror. The labor agitators are moving southward. It has been said that colored people have no tendencies toward socialism and anarchy. I am no prophet, but I will hazard the prediction that it will not be long before ...
— American Missionary, Vol. XLII., May, 1888., No. 5 • Various
... river, which almost continually during the day, and sometimes all night, may be heard puffing and panting, as if it uttered groans for being compelled to labor in the heat and sunshine, and when the world is ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... righteousness and justice, the only kind of peace worth having, is at least as necessary in the industrial world as it is among nations. There is at least as much need to curb the cruel greed and arrogance of part of the world of capital, to curb the cruel greed and violence of part of the world of labor, as to check a cruel and ...
— African and European Addresses • Theodore Roosevelt
... thought, wrote, tore up what he had written, and began again. At last the result of his labor ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
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