"Field work" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... deck, when we were put up to sale, and knocked down by an auctioneer to the highest bidder. William and Peter brought large sums, being expert tradesmen, and their time of service was short, compared with the rest. The others, like myself, were fit only for field work, and our time, to make up the sum of forty pounds, which we averaged, was three years. We all thought the captain would have given the injured lady her liberty, and a present, for her care of him; but avarice was his ruling passion, and stifled ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI • Various
... to supplement the R.A.M.C. in field work, stretcher bearing, ambulance driving, etc.—its duties being more or ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
... until the frost act in; there were stones and roots to be dug up and cleared away, and the meadow to be levelled ready for next year. When the ground hardened, he left his field work and became a woodman, felling and cutting up great ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... exhaustion and stood wiping the heavy moisture from his brow. The scene through which he had just passed had left him quivering in every nerve, as if he had been engaged in some terrible struggle against physical odds. All at once he became aware that the afternoon was too oppressive for field work, and, unhitching the horses from the plough, he led them slowly back to the stable beyond the house. As he went, it seemed to him that he had grown middle-aged within the hour; his youth had departed as ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... while at Murfreesboro (February 3, 1862) assumed full command of the Central Army, Western Department, and commenced its reorganization for active field work, and on the 27th commenced moving it, with a view to concentrate to ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer
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