"On the job" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... away, if you hadn't been on the job," he told Ritter. Then he picked up his own revolver and holstered it. After a glance which assured him that Fred Dunmore was beyond any further action of any sort, he laid the square-butt Detective ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... up my mind to come to see you, I thought you was a yanitor—that you'd have a place where, maybe, if you didn't mind having me, I could visit a while and rest up—till I felt able to get back on the job again. ...
— Anna Christie • Eugene O'Neill
... to-morrow morning. We're to sail at five ... so he can't sign on a new sailor before ... of course he might shanghai someone ... but the law's too severe these days ... and the Sailors' Aid Society is always on the job ... it isn't ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... your aunts are on the job somewhere and we'd better go down and start this party. I hear ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... sting in the tail somewhere," Torrance muttered to his foreman. "Either he wants my calabash pipe, or he plans to land his whole family of papooses on my breakfast table while he's on the job. And their annual bath may be eleven months back. Go on, Chief, ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan
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