time-job

Updated: May 11, 2025

They pretended to be at a standstill because their satellites their âmes damnées, the men who hold their hods and mix their mortar had not turned up. 'Don't disturb yourselves, gentlemen, I said. 'There's nothing like taking things easy. It's a time-job. I'll send you the morning papers and a can of beer. And so I did, and since that day, do you know, the fellows have worked twice as hard.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Vixen, Volume III.