"Working-day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... must do nothing to mar. The children and friends of a man on the brink of death would instinctively wish to gather round him. How could they accompany him to the lethal chamber, if it were an ordinary working-day, with every moment of the time mapped out ...
— A Christmas Garland • Max Beerbohm
... narrow paths between the fern, with Gyp at his heels, not lingering to watch the magnificent changes of the light—hardly once thinking of it—yet feeling its presence in a certain calm happy awe which mingled itself with his busy working-day thoughts. How could he help feeling it? The very deer felt it, and ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... That round and round incalculably reel— For wrath divine hath made him like a wheel— In that red realm from which are no returnings; Where toiling, and turmoiling, ever and aye He, and his thoughts, keep pensive working-day. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... will be nice,"—and at that thought the heart of the young lover escaped, and put forth its wings, and went off into that heaven of ideal excellence and beauty, more sweet, because more vague, than anything real, which stands instead of the old working-day skies and clouds at such a period of life. He had to drop down from a great height, and get rid in all haste of his celestial pinions, when he heard his aunt Dora calling him; and his self-command was not sufficient to conceal, as he obeyed that summons, ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... looking at the busy scene on the beach and watching with interest the boys guiding down the steep road the bullock-carts, which at times looked as if they would heave over, and indeed one did. The men will probably not be back till the small hours of the morning, which will make a working-day of nearly twenty-four hours for them, as they were up very early digging potatoes for ...
— Three Years in Tristan da Cunha • K. M. Barrow
... me of any paradises, mamma. We are in the working-day world, and we must make out our life as ...
— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant
... a solace," said Martin, "that must be denied to no man. It seems that I must help you out to the last. And if you will take one glance out of doors, you will see that the working-day is over." ...
— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon |
