| 1920 - 850 pagini
...said in a tone of indignation : ' Look there, now ! I can't abide to see men throw away their tools Г that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as...work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.' The point -of view was extremely unpopular. ' Bodderation, Adam!' exclaimed Wiry Ben, 'lave a chap... | |
| George Eliot - 1859 - 468 pagini
...dog Gyp— thee bark'st at me sometimes, but thee allays lick'st my hand after." " Look there, now! I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i'...work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much." All hands worked on in silence for some minutes, until the church clock began to strike six. Before... | |
| George Eliot - 1859 - 524 pagini
...observing the cessation of the tools he looked up, and said, in a tone of indignation, "Look there, now ! I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i'...i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too mnch." Seth looked a little conscious, and began to be slower in his preparations for going, but Mum.... | |
| George Eliot - 1859 - 520 pagini
...Adam, still wrathful ; " what's age got to do with it, I wonder ? Ye arena getting stiff yet, I reckon. I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in 's work. The very grindstone... | |
| George Eliot - 1867 - 486 pagini
...observing the cessation of the tools, he looked up, and said, in a tone of indignation, " Look there, now ! I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i'...work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much." Seth looked a little conscious, and began to be slower in his preparations for going, but Mum Taft... | |
| George Eliot - 1878 - 456 pagini
...Adam, still wrathful ; " what's age got to do with it, I wonder? Ye arena getting stiff yet, I reckon. I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in 's work. The very grindstone... | |
| 1879 - 480 pagini
...the words of Adam Bede, the honest workmiyi : — " I can't abide to see men throw away their tools the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they...man's arms drop down as if he was shot before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit of pride and delight in his work. The very grindstone'll... | |
| Thomas Edwin Vassar - 1879 - 252 pagini
...passage on this point in Adam Bede, which we have never forgotten. " I can't abide," says the speaker, " to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the...strike, as if they took no pleasure i* their work, and were afraid of doing a stroke too much. I hate to see a man's arm drop down as if he was shot, before... | |
| George Eliot - 1883 - 742 pagini
...observing the cessation of tools he looked up, and said, in a tone of indignation, " Look there, now ! I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i'...work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much." Seth looked a little conscious, and began to be slower in his preparations for going, -but Mum Taft... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pagini
...only laying a floor down, somebody's the better for it being done well, besides the man as does it.1 I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i'...shot, before the clock 's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after... | |
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