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Updated: May 13, 2025
A thousand and more of them, with faces twisted and scored by those myriad deformings which a desperate town-toiling and little food fasten on human visages; yet with hardly a single evil or brutal face. Seemingly it was not easy to be evil or brutal on a wage that scarcely bound soul and body. A thousand and more of the poorest-paid and hardest-worked human beings in the world.
'I vow to the Lord, sighed out Kearney, 'I believe I'm the hardest-worked man in the three kingdoms. 'Maybe you are, muttered Gill, though certainly the concurrence scarcely sounded hearty, while he meanwhile arranged the books. 'Oh, I know well enough what you mean. If a man doesn't work with a spade or follow the plough, you won't believe that he works at all.
We were eight hundred strong, all told; officers and men; bluejackets of all ratings, and marines; boys and "idlers," as some of the hardest-worked fellows aboard are somewhat inappropriately designated in the watch bill, according to nautical etiquette; as motley a collection at the first start, and yet as fine a set of fellows as you could pick out in a year's cruise!
You would be the hardest-worked man in the country if you did half the work that was waiting for you, and it would be unselfish work, too thinking of others, and not of yourself." Jack looked at her, and his face softened. "That's true," he said frankly. "I'm sorry! You are right, and I am wrong. I'm in a bad temper, and can't see things in their right light to-day.
Very slowly he retraced his steps until he stood outside the glass-enclosed cage where twelve of the hardest-worked clerks in London bent over their ledgers and invoicing. With his forefinger a fat, pudgy forefinger he tapped upon a pane of glass, and an anxious errand boy bolted through the doorway. "Tell Mr. Jarvis to step this way," his employer ordered. Mr.
As the times are so unsettled, and no one can tell what may become within a year of any old foundation, the trustees have requested Reginald to retain his chaplaincy at the old College; so that he is in reality a pluralist, and almost rich, though they say the hardest-worked man in Carlingford.
Forty-three years after that clamorous greeting of New York to the young Prince of Wales the present writer was to witness in Paris the visit of Edward VII. for the purpose of cementing the Entente Cordiale. The tired face told the story of the hardest-worked public servant in the world.
The Viceroy had a completely fitted-up office in his smart little white-and-gold yacht, and was able to get through a great deal of work on his voyage down the Hooghly before breakfast on Monday mornings. A conscientious Viceroy of India is one of the hardest-worked men in the world, for he frequently has ten hours of office work in the day, irrespective of his other duties.
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