"Work through" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... good a job as any of them could have done," he remarked to himself, regarding his work through the gathering gloom with great satisfaction. "Now for the fellows ...
— Raftmates - A Story of the Great River • Kirk Munroe
... football game with Lake Forest was rapidly drawing nearer. Under the steady practice and hard work through which Granger put his team, it was ...
— The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall - Or, Great Days in School and Out • Spencer Davenport
... of accurate observation, and so suggestive in its reasoning—had it been published at that time. It is quite possible that much of the credit now justly assigned to Lyell, would have belonged to his friend. Unfortunately, however, Scrope, instead of seeing his work through the press, determined first to make another tour in Italy. He arrived at Naples just in time to witness and describe the grandest eruption of Vesuvius in modern times, that of October 1822. What he witnessed then—the blowing ...
— The Coming of Evolution - The Story of a Great Revolution in Science • John W. (John Wesley) Judd
... sleep, called out for Phillis; the men and women from the hay-field came running into shelter, drenched through. The minister followed, smiling, and not unpleasantly excited by the war of elements; for, by dint of hard work through the long summer's day, the greater part of the hay was safely housed in the barn in the field. Once or twice in the succeeding bustle I came across Phillis, always busy, and, as it seemed to me, always doing the right thing. When ...
— Cousin Phillis • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... superhuman work through the entire previous day and night, details of men from Battery C had pulled one cannon by ropes across a muddy, almost impassable, meadow. So anxious were they to get off the first shot that they ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons
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