| 单词 | hired hand |
| 例句 | “He’s my hired hands,” she said with a chuckle, and as we had done before, we held the pen between my hand and hers and managed to scrawl out a signature. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z With the help of hired hands, Garfield grew crops and raised animals to supplement the income from his government position and law practice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He would never forget the time he was working out in the fields with a hired hand, an elderly black man named Ivy, when the man set down his hoe and sang “Dixie.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In no time at all men began to arrive, offering their service as hired hands, because I paid well and gave them meals. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Shibayamas were owners of a respectable house, and it seemed to them that Fujiko, the daughter in question, could do better than to marry a hired hand in America. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Abigail spied him in the field that July of 1801, working alongside the hired hands, swinging his sickle and murmuring obscenities at his political opponents. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Aunt Loma’s face flushed red as her hair, she was so mad, and she flounced off acting like a store-owner’s daughter to a hired hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Sandi defends himself against the hired hands sent to kill him, such as Ramon — a psychotic barber armed with stainless steel shears — with only a bolas as his weapon. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z I was the hired hand to come in and overdub and put some colour on the tracks. John Cale: 'I don't want to end up in Pseud's Corner' 2012-09-26T08:50:35Z The Wings get by with only one hired hand, which perhaps keeps the dynamic simpler. Mom and Pop Stores, the Brooklyn Generation 2012-09-26T22:48:37Z It stars the director Joe Swanberg—whose own superb new film, “Happy Christmas,” is also in the series—as Akin, a hired hand at a remote ranch. Richard Brody: Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Annual BAMcinemaFest 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z For the past several years, he worked as a hired hand in Santa Fe, turning around various kitchens in town. Restaurant Report: Joseph’s of Santa Fe 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z That might be because the hired hands realize that Love is clearly the star, and she played that role to the hilt, striking arms-wide-open Jesus Christ poses and teasing the faithful with numerous sexual innuendoes. Hole launches U.S. tour on respectable note 2010-04-26T01:15:00Z Epi returned a year later, with a rented truck and some hired hands to help her. The frittata that bought us a house 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Keys, 70, wasn’t just a hired hand, though. Bobby Keys, longtime Rolling Stones saxophonist, dies at age 70 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The financial pressures are crushing, and the loans, insurance and mortgages may seem abstract until the bank takes back a piece of land, or a hired hand is laid off. Little Farm on the Prairie 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z And the creatives think of themselves more as hired hands than a dauphin, serving loyally behind the throne before finally taking the crown. Playing Fashion Musical Chairs 2014-02-25T18:17:45Z Hayes played every instrument on his self-titled debut album, something he called an "intimidating experiment" in a town full of legendary hired hands. Hunter Hayes follows own path to Grammy noms 2013-01-31T12:45:16Z The women at first rely on the muscle of hired men—until other men frighten these hired hands off, and the women must learn to exact violence themselves. “The Kitchen,” Reviewed: An Engrossing Mob-Wife Drama That’s Relegated to a Table Read 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z There was one time, however, when Mr. Watts famously chafed at being treated like a hired hand rather than an equal member of the group. Charlie Watts, Bedrock Drummer for the Rolling Stones, Dies at 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The new names on this season’s agenda are hired hands, and appear to be happy with that status. Playing Fashion Musical Chairs 2014-02-25T18:17:45Z In Jubal, a western version of Othello, he was powerful and touching as a cattle-ranch owner who is convinced by villainous Rod Steiger that his wife has been unfaithful with hired hand Glenn Ford. Ernest Borgnine obituary 2012-07-08T23:14:24Z Even though its over-familiar bestiary, dungeons and city folk in need of favours are so routine they're almost invisible, taking on the game's battles involves a novel twist in the hired hands called pawns. This week's new games 2012-06-01T23:06:07Z He was a hired hand, an illustrator turned photographer near the dawn of the medium. Critic’s Notebook: Charles Marville’s Pictures Show What Was Destroyed 2014-03-09T21:55:35Z He began his career as a hired hand, providing cartoons and illustrations for magazines, ads, and other people’s books. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Today, many farmers still oppose DST because it is generally disruptive, such as in dairying, and prefer they and their hired hands work more in the cooler morning hours than the hotter late-day hours. Opinion | Daylight saving time propaganda has harmful effects 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z "Florida requires that your hired hand that you bring to your house to cut your lawn has more insurance than any physician that's going to operate on you," he said. The doctors selling false hope to people facing blindness 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “I’m not a hired hand. I’m not looking for a job.” Why Quentin Tarantino will never make a Marvel film: 'I'm not looking for a job' 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Despite the prevalence of such “day-to-day” resistance, however, masters still wrung more labor from slaves than northern farmers got from hired hands. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Others remained in the forest as hired hands and subsistence farmers. The War for the Rainforest 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Such efforts turn on whether authors worked as hired hands or produced the material on their own and then sold it to publishers. Disney Sues to Keep Complete Rights to Marvel Characters 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Lost Dog is one of a growing number of companies that, in a desperation for hired hands, is loosening restrictions on everything from age to level of experience. Companies loosen job requirements but challenges remain 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “You have to be a hired hand to do those things,” Tarantino says. Why Quentin Tarantino will never make a Marvel film: 'I'm not looking for a job' 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z They made the dangerous journey on their own, with parents or hired hands, often to escape gang violence in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and other countries. U.S. House poised to pass immigrant protections for 'Dreamers,' farm workers 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z A tool like this becomes truly dangerous only if it can generate enormous amounts of convincing disinformation entirely on its own, exceeding what a team of hired hands can do with relative ease today. My Name Is GPT-3 and I Approved This Article 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Ravenholt grew up speaking Danish and worked as a hired hand on neighboring farms while the family lived in rentals until they could afford another property. Dr. Reimert Ravenholt: A champion for public health and family planning 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Last year, those hired hands sent $6.14 billion in remittances to the Philippines — a cornerstone of the country’s economy. Philippine fishermen stranded at sea by pandemic: 'We think about jumping overboard' 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z At first, the family continued living in southern Brazil, traveling occasionally to Para, where a young Costa watched his father clear jungle with hired hands and chainsaws. Special Report: One Brazilian farmer tried – and failed – to ranch more responsibly in the Amazon 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Officials say Gillming was working as a hired hand for a local family. Man killed when freight train hits semi-truck is identified 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “I only knew of a couple of white families in the community, and those were the ones where we worked as hired hands and helped them put in tobacco,” he recalled. North Carolina man works to uncover the past 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z But as successive waves of plague shrank the work force, hired hands and tenants “took no notice of the king’s command,” as the Augustinian clergyman Henry Knighton complained. Opinion | Why the Wealthy Fear Pandemics 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z But Mr Simpson's family lawyer, Philip Shepherd QC, posited Mr Rutherford to be solely responsible for the safety of the aircraft as the hired hand and the designated pilot in command of the flight. Fatal crash plane had 'equipment failings' 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Soleimani also helped Assad with fighters — a mix that included Hezbollah, the Revolutionary Guard, affiliated militia fighters and hired hands from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Soleimani helped shape the brutality of the Syrian war 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z A shoal of anonymous weirdos, bots and hired hands working on behalf of shady foreign governments. Who is to blame for our bullying culture? Not just tech corporations | Nesrine Malik 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “That haunted me. Because you’re a hired hand. You work for who hires you.” This Investigator Used to Stake Out Women. Now, She Tails Men Online. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A gloomy farmer forbids a hired hand, or anyone else, to go near a red house in the woods. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z There’s an obvious advantage to being a senator rather than a hired hand. Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Rudy Giuliani pay the price for embracing a toxic president 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z He also downplayed Harris' title of "creative director," telling the jury his client was a hired hand with the responsibilities of a janitor. Defense seeks to shift blame for warehouse fire 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z He also downplayed Harris’ title of “creative director,” telling the jury his client was a hired hand with the responsibilities of a janitor. Defense seeks to shift blame for warehouse fire 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z He is simply the latest hired hand to find himself staring into that vacuum of leadership and planning, a job that is simply too big to fix from the factory floor. Obsession with past leaves Solskjær’s United stuck in a footballing Pompeii | Barney Ronay 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z He interrupted and then aggressively argued with combative Democratic senators, then appeared to take deep breaths in respite when it was GOP hired hand Mitchell’s turn. She said/he bellowed: The optics of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings were as divided as America - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z A search party of hired hands roared back into camp on motorbikes to say they had found their carcasses, eaten by a wild animal. Nigerian Herders Face Threat From Farmers Competing for Land 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z I grew up in a small town in North Carolina where most of the white people were farm owners and the black people were hired hands. 'Bad things happen in the woods': the anxiety of hiking while black 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z A shared sensibility — cynical but unashamed about an attraction to beauty — is what defined the band even as the two songwriters went on to surround themselves with hired hands in the studio. Steely Dan without Walter Becker? It's not the travesty you might expect 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z After selling a few of their songs at the famous Brill Building in New York, they moved to L.A., set up with a publishing deal as hired hands of ABC Records. The 1993 interview when Walter Becker opened up about Steely Dan's subversive intentions 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Anthropologists, medics and hundreds of hired hands in Vietnam are included. After 5 decades, MIA pilot's wedding ring and bone fragments found in Vietnam fish pond 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z He leads a rag-tag crew of hired hands across the plains in search of validation, revenge, and, perhaps, even a first-round playoff upset. The ballad of Russell Westbrook: the best one-man teams in NBA history - Golf Digest 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z And in a White House filled with new hired hands and paid advisers, his relationship with Trump has something that only time could cement: Trust.” The Daily 202: What does Trump have to hide? Secretive White House unapologetic about clawing back transparency 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In another forced eviction case, in 2012, a kung fu master and his son in Hebei province, near Beijing, beat up several hired hands who had forcibly entered their home. In China, a jailed killer became an online folk hero — and that could lead to his release 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z As the Hiyu cruised into Lake Union, Wilson paced the ferry deck with hired hands and business partners, pointing out where the bar might go and wondering how to set up the stage. New life, new home for ferry Hiyu 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z We lived among farmers and hired hands who preferred a six-pack of Bud. Behind the Cellar Door 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The plan, prosecutors said, was for hired hands to kill the prosecutors and FBI agents who won the conviction against Walthall. Ex-Laguna con man sentenced to 20 years for plot to kill federal judge, prosecutors and agents 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Jordahl explains to them that Americans in search of an “authentic” experience hope to interact with the guide as more of an equal than as a hired hand. How Tour Guides Abroad Learn to Cater to Exotic Americans 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Someone asks Dewey, “What about the hired hand?” Resident recalls impact of ‘In Cold Blood’ murders 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z For a while he became the most illustrious hired hand in the business, playing with Paul McCartney, the Pretenders and U2. Johnny Marr: ‘The conversation about re-forming came out of the blue' 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z You’re not just a hired hand coming in to do one role. Ed Harris talks 'Westworld,' working with wife Amy Madigan, and how he made Mickey Mantle mad 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z They resounded in the cloister below, where hundreds of Gucci staff and hired hands were readying the site for the fashion show, which was to take place at three. Gucci’s Renaissance Man 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z He started getting asked to perform with more established acts, and while he holds them in high regard, he knows that in that role he’s just a hired hand playing someone else’s work. McComb native songwriter’s son releases album 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z She said there were no real figures for the number of Chinese working in the area as full-time hired hands for Russian landowners, seasonal laborers or as farmers on land they lease for themselves. Russia’s Acres, if Not Its Locals, Beckon Chinese Farmers 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z The hired hands would assault and murder the team of prosecutors and FBI agents who won a conviction against Walthall, according to court papers. Man convicted of plotting to kidnap, torture and kill federal judge with a wood chipper 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Go back a generation or two, and competitors were typically ranchers’ children or hired hands. Ride ’em, cowboy! 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Of course any hired hand stupid enough to use a slur after being called by the boss on the same usage earlier, should expect to get canned. ESPN Finally Grows Tired of Curt Schilling’s Barbed Language 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He patrols his property in a beaten-up luxury sedan with a high-powered air rifle and a hired hand who gets US$5 per kill. When chickens go wild 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z He laid off a hired hand who had worked on the farm for years. Town Where the Tomato Is King Rallies to Save Its Heinz Plant 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z But across the Atlantic Ocean, on the screens of a little-known company in London called Net Result, hired hands of the league were not hunting for great highlights but for violators of N.F.L. copyrights. N.F.L. Flags Unauthorized Video Sharing 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The result was that TV writers developed a complex mix of pride and shame, a sense that they were hired hands, not artists. What Advertising Does to TV 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Here, the employees view themselves not as hired hands but as partners in the enterprise. The Big Opportunity McDonald's Is Missing 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z If he’s not careful, Uncle Sam is going to run some of his best hired hands off the ranch. Uncle Sam had better start treating his employees right 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Most of these marathon-tenured leaders are not the typical public company's hired hands. Warren Buffett has been CEO for nearly 50 years; others last less than 10 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z But unlike the proverbial subsistence farmer too poor for a hired hand, Ofte has help. Farmers turn to cattle grazing to improve soil, bottom lines 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z The hired hand brings us down to earth, while the star is lost in the clouds. ♦ Peak Performances 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In private, some princelings referred to the President and the Premier as huoji—“hired hands.” Rise of the Red Prince 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z More middle-class whites are having children out of wedlock, and many children are being brought up by hired hands and a bewildering rotation of boyfriends and girlfriends. Beyond 1993 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z She acknowledges her vision is out of sync with Cuomo’s desire to leverage state money with private investment; the private sector’s role in her plan would be as government’s hired hand. A sampling of editorials from around New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z But despite his immense contribution to TCW’s success, at the end of the day Gundlach was still a just hired hand with no equity or control of his own destiny. Glory To The New Bond King 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z It was a struggle, he said, with some hired hands demanding exorbitant rates — and then failing to come through. Asylum in America: A High-Stakes Struggle for Border Crossing Kids 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z “Sometimes it’s scary, but mostly I’m OK,” says Dvir Ben Simchon, a 22-year-old from Tel Aviv who spent the summer as a hired hand, picking apples at an orchard belonging to an Israeli kibbutz. The Golan Heights, Once Peaceful, May Drag Israel Into the Syrian Civil War Writers think they create the words and that actors are just the hired hands who speak them. Authors and actors revive cricket rivalry 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The judge said: "The use of the streets of this city for fighting a Medieval turf war using hired hands as hit men is as intolerable as it is unacceptable." Killer jailed over gang boss murder 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z To post envelopes and man the phones, it is relying on hired hands and young, English-accented “posh Scots”, home from southern boarding schools. How did it come to this? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Before he left office, African Americans were living on those same lands — in luxury homes, driving fancy cars, with hired hands tending to their lawns. Wayne Curry put the ‘Prince’ back in Prince George’s in his reign as county executive “It was a labor of necessity. But we behaved all along like concerned homeowners, not hired hands, because that’s what we are.” Village Co-op Gets Hit With $30 Million Assessment 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z So I didn’t start any of this and was a mere hired hand in it. Speculative Zoologists Imagine Beasts of the Future 2014-04-04T11:06:16Z In a way, it is like being a hired hand, as a result of the fall and the penalty for original sin.” 7 crazy right wing statements from just last week 2013-09-16T12:34:00Z The hired hands, however, call few significant shots without input from the clan. Executive profile: Empire of clowns, ice and dirt 2013-08-12T05:00:00Z He was itinerant, traveling from home to home, painting as a hired hand. | New Jersey: Mysteries of an Unusual Traveling Salesman 2013-07-27T00:44:06Z What followed soon after were lamentations from Ross and his hired hands about all the money that South Florida was losing out on. Column: Play ball with Goodell and NFL _ or else 2013-05-22T07:32:08Z On Monday at 7 a.m., with commuters streaming in from Greenwich, Conn., and Westchester County, a few hired hands peeled back a set of black curtains to unveil the home. City Room: A House Built Close to the Train, but Only Temporarily 2013-05-06T18:27:07Z Last spring, Conor Murphy was a hired hand who spent his days galloping racehorses, combing knotted manes and shoveling manure in a stable in Berkshire, England. Once-in-lifetime bet transforms horse trainer’s life 2013-05-04T01:45:37Z “There were people who wanted 100 percent of the company and I would be a hired hand.” DealBook: Boutique Vintners Turn to Private Equity for Help 2013-04-26T00:12:00Z Now, they’re all hanging about, like some hired hand who likes to eat but shuns work. Apple Jacked Up My Podcasts. What's Next? 2013-02-25T14:46:36Z Anger, thanks to the work of these hired hands, is instead aimed at the victims or opponents of the billionaires: people on benefits, trade unions, Greenpeace, the American Civil Liberties Union. The educational charities that do PR for the rightwing ultra-rich 2013-02-18T20:30:01Z Instead of professional civil servants, government departments and the Department for Education in particular are increasingly relying on hired hands to deliver their policies. Concerns over education advisers 2012-12-20T00:59:55Z Jockeys and charioteers did wear some clothes but they were hired hands, not the owners of the chariots or horses, who alone were credited with the victory and claimed the honorific prize. Ancient versus modern Olympics 2012-06-29T08:52:36Z There were forests to be cleared, roads to be built, and mine adits to be driven, and nobody troubled himself greatly about the antecedents of his hired hand. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z It is my wish that he should come back as quickly as possible, for a place does not prosper in hired hands however good they may be. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Using hired hands, known as "baltagia" or thugs, was common in Mubarak's era to help secure seats. Gloves off as Egypt's election race heats up 2011-11-14T17:18:17Z Like his past self-serving edicts on dress code or the questioning of officials, his moves are intended to do little more than show how he's the one keeping the hired hands in their place. Labor talks extended to 3rd day for 1st time 2011-10-20T04:32:43Z One of the film’s subtle flaws is how apparent it is that Scorsese mainly assembled this film, leaving interviews and other legwork up to hired hands. In Scorsese?s TV ode, Harrison remains an elusive Beatle 2011-10-04T21:27:00Z In fact, she frequently contrived to make him forget that he was Valentine's hired hand and wore the man-o'-war cap. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The search giant already runs an established lobbying office in town with low double-digit numbers of hired hands. Mister Schmidt Goes To Washington 2011-09-26T13:24:43Z Assume that in Rzeslewo the husbandmen, tenants, and hired hands seize the land and divide it between them. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z A cow and perhaps a hog or two, are killed and cut up, for an extra number of “hired hands” begin to arrive. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z Certainly no inconsiderable man in his own country, and yet here he was, an ordinary hired hand, punching cows for forty-five a month. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Why, you know how difficult it is in the country to get a hired hand, and you know that a hired girl in the home is a thing out of the question. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z It was evidence of the girl's innate strength and purity of soul that the long succession of hired hands had not poisoned her mind. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z They say he is now 17 or 18, and depict him as merely a hired hand in the operations. Leniency of Sentence for Pirate Is at Issue 2011-02-14T01:20:01Z For eight years Joe had worked as a hired hand for other farmers. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z You know of course that, whatever my life may have been in the past, at present I am nothing but a hired hand—and a very poor hand at that, I am afraid. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Without the aid of skimmers, the hired hands dragged long pieces of absorbent boom behind their boats, catching stray patches of oil along the way. Early cleanup efforts of gulf oil spill marred by communication woes, scammers 2010-08-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Toberoff is poised to argue that Mr. Kirby — and, by extension, others like him — were selling their work on a freelance basis, rather than serving as hired hands. A Custody Battle, Supersized, Over Marvel Superheroes 2010-03-20T22:16:00Z The second is that the people who are ultimately responsible for the debacles are not the hired hands but their political masters. 2010-01-21T10:37:00Z It had been maddening, as a hired hand, to be able to feel and touch this magic, and not to have it for his own. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z Washing-machines, I have found to my cost, are a failure also, at least in hired hands. Household Organization On the next ranch to his own up the river a fair-haired, sun-browned girl was working in the harvest-field this season to save the price of a hired hand, toward going to college that fall. The Reclaimers It turns on whether Mr. Kirby was working as a hired hand or whether he was producing material on his own that he then sold to publishers. A Custody Battle, Supersized, Over Marvel Superheroes 2010-03-20T22:16:00Z You are a woman—once a hired hand. A Yankee from the West A Novel Year around, the farm was a busy place, with work enough for all of the Beatties’ 12 children—six boys and six girls—as well as their parents and hired hands. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia More frequently, hired hands worked for a share of the fruits of their labor. Frying Pan Farm "No. I sent word by one of the hired hands," admitted Tom sheepishly. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds In all these cases the farmer himself suffers directly, while his hired hand is affected only indirectly by the unwillingness of farmers in some seasons to employ as much labor. Rural Health and Welfare “Well, put him in at fifty then, if he was only a hired hand,” said Thorn, willing to oblige. The Rustler of Wind River “Not that it’s any of my business, bein’ as you’re you and I’m me; but we were pardners for some years before things changed and made you the boss and me the hired hand. The Plunderer The men and any hired hands usually began milking around 4:30 a.m., while the women prepared breakfast. Frying Pan Farm This land is cultivated by hired hands, who work immediately under the eye of overseers. The Negro Farmer The farmer cannot pay his hired hand with his farm, though he may be able to do so with his products. Rural Health and Welfare “I didn’t even know he had a hired hand!” The Rustler of Wind River A man, whom she recognized as a hired hand from a ranch in the neighbourhood, stood in the entrance with a packet in his hand. The Greater Power In numerous ways the hired hands exercised some control over their working conditions. Frying Pan Farm Savine, who did not answer her, remained standing until the hired hand whom he had summoned, entered. Thurston of Orchard Valley I was not working as a visitor but as a hired hand, and doing my full day's work and more. A Son of the Middle Border I didn’t fetch you in here to clean out hired hands and kids; we can shake a blanket and scare that kind out of the country!” The Rustler of Wind River He had now a motive for fighting, in place of drifting, that 49 no mere hired hand can possess. The Greater Power Most every farmer's hired hand raised from two to five children. Frying Pan Farm The hired hand who needs no boss to keep him busy earns double wages. Oklahoma Sunshine Much of the charm, the poetry of the old-time threshing vanished with the passing of horse power and the coming of the nomadic hired hand. A Son of the Middle Border Robert, at the age of thirteen, assisted in threshing the crop of corn, and at fifteen he was the principal laborer on the farm, for they could not afford a hired hand. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 In the 18th century, when the importation of many thousands of slaves had lowered the price of labor in the colony, the employment of hired hands became still less frequent. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion Only an occasional Irish-American is found among the hired hands on the dairy farms. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study You will go down to town and take charge of the Shirley House at once, or go to work as a hired hand here. Winning the Wilderness He not only breaks my crockery, but set a cruel trap to burn my fingers, and I do not choose to be insulted by a hired hand.” Lorimer of the Northwest More of native birth, helots of the cities, and hired hands of the plains, were also turning desiring eyes upon the wide spaces of the cattle country, where there was room for all. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter He has one floor of a whole wing cut off for his special use,—about twenty rooms, I should judge,—and there was hired hands standin’ around in every corner. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe As things are usually arranged, therefore, there is no place on the average farm for the son, except as a hired hand, which is not desired permanently by either father or son. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know The others were merely hired hands, but they all eyed the new-comer with disfavor. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range Yet that name meant nothing to me, when I met it out on the prairie and humiliated its owner by converting him into one of my hired hands. The Prairie Mother The musket had been seized by the hired hand, who had been the cause of the farmer's intention being frustrated. The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys You’ve been short of hands all summer, and you’ve worked the boys hard, and a man ought use his own flesh and blood as well as he does his hired hands. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Generally, all Miss Salome's hired hands got from Clemantiny was skim milk. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 In the employment of the fur companies the trappers are of two kinds, called the "hired hand," and the "free trapper." Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky In lonely lodgings, beneath the speculative gaze of a memoir-writing footman and the care of hired hands, Sterne gasped out the words, "Now it is come!" and so died. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Appleby owned a dairy farm, and employed about a dozen hired hands. The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine I'm just a hired hand—not even a member of your clan. The Best Made Plans Steve was Ridings' hired hand, a herculean fellow, with a drawl, and a liability for taking offence quite as remarkable. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 We plants ourselves in some green cushioned easy chairs under the back stoop awnin', and I sends one of the white-wing hired hands after the conductor. Shorty McCabe Very expensive hired hands, but still just that. Legacy There was the bullock-driver in charge, with his chum, a newly hired hand, and Sam Green, who walked or sat on the dray; while the two Gilpins rode alongside on horses, provided by Mr Prentiss. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia What hired hands can ever minister to our dear ones so deftly, so efficiently, as those which love has trained and dutiful affection called to service?” More About Peggy Old Chief just treat all the Negroes like they was just hired hands, and I was a big girl before I knowed very much about belonging to him. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Harkey's hired hand went home with Dade Walker who considered that walk the pleasant finish to a very interesting day's work. Other Main-Travelled Roads Steve was Ridings' hired hand, a herculean fellow, with a drawl, and a liability for taking offense quite as remarkable. Prairie Folks It's a high-falutin' title they have handed us; It's very complimentary an' grand; But a year or so ago they called us "hicks," you know— An' joshed the farmer and his hired hand! With the Colors Songs of the American Service I had more'n I could handle with only one hired hand. The Third Violet The girl minced, nibbling at a chicken wing, and the boys pretended to be dainty, but when the girls were not looking, grabbed like a hired hand at a barbecue. The Starbucks The horses must be watered, fed, and curried, and the cows were to milk, but after breakfast Ben threw off the cares of the hired hand. Other Main-Travelled Roads In the meantime, you're holding up a hired hand when he's in a hurry to get on the job again. Skyrider Dorgan also had told the hired hands that Steele intended to reduce their wages. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue Is it old David who is merely acting the part of a fool, or is it that young man who pretended to be a hired hand, who worked awhile for Simon Squabbles? Under Sealed Orders He was a hired hand merely, and he and a son of the owner, without other assistance, made the trip. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History "Cow-bells, for instance," put in Bill's hired hand, with a provoking intonation. Other Main-Travelled Roads The farmer himself and his hired hands paid no attention to them, but the boy, the one who had prevented there being three imps instead of two, he was tremendously interested. Children of the Wild Also, since they were friends as well as hired hands, he told them frankly of his difficulties and of his success with Engle. The Desert Valley "By the way," Mr. Dinsmore remarked carelessly, "does Uncle Joe belong to you? or is he merely a hired hand?" Elsie's Womanhood They had only one hired hand for crew; used to work her themselves for the most part; the lady was extraordinary clever at the helm, or at the sheets either. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales They could scarcely afford a hired hand merely to take care of Queenie. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod He dispensed with a hired hand in winter, when there was less to be done, for Clarke neglected no opportunity to save a dollar. The Intriguers No one could charge me with neglect or inattention, for I close-herded her like a hired hand. A Texas Matchmaker His hired hands were wind and cloud; His eyes detect the Gods concealed In the hummock of the field. Poems Household Edition The Deacon's hired hand was all his time a looker-on, but he finally mustered up courage, and with great difficulty succeeded in pulling the enraged Deacon off the poor man. The Deacon of Dobbinsville A Story Based on Actual Happenings Associated with this range of bourgeois occupations and often closely identified with it are owners of family farms, tenants and hired hands. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History They rely almost exclusively on hired hands an' feet, an' are losin' the use o' their own. Keeping up with Lizzie At forty, he owned and, with the aid of two hired hands, worked an entire section of land. Dust You are the state's hired hand, Charlie boy—duly employed to remain at Austin and display your anserine ignorance in the governor's office. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 When he had reached a point about a quarter of a mile from his home, to his astonishment he met Deacon Gramps, accompanied by Gramps' hired hand. The Deacon of Dobbinsville A Story Based on Actual Happenings What if he IS a hired hand on the Tocsin? The Conquest of Canaan He became a big operator, but his reminiscences, beautifully printed, are stronger on camp cooks and other hired hands than on cattle "kings." Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations I forced him, against his will, to say that he was a hired hand on this place, and that Susan must be content to be a hired housekeeper. Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Both were somewhat above the station of ordinary hired hands; and Du Gay had an uncle who was an ecclesiastic of good credit at Amiens, his native place. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 "Certainly," responded Jones, who stood near the barnyard gate talking with Gramps' hired hand, from whom he was endeavoring to learn the details as to how the fire started. The Deacon of Dobbinsville A Story Based on Actual Happenings Well, I'm one of the folks that made it all—and paid for it; and you're one of my hired hands. The Angel of Lonesome Hill A Story of a President They let a good deal of their land, the renters paying half the crop; and they employ besides fifteen or twenty hired hands, who are mostly Negroes. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation In the days of the great fur companies, trappers were of two kinds—the hired hand and the free trapper. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Farmers were pretty evenly divided; but their "hired hands" were Democrats, and so were most immigrants. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders He came upon a hired hand splitting some sawed hickory slabs to whittle down into skewers. Andy the Acrobat It was customary in this house for the family to seat themselves first at the head of the table, after which the hired hands all came in, and took the lower end. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian They employ about two hundred hired hands, mostly in agricultural labors; and these are all Germans, many of whom have families. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation I'm stiff as a hired hand, and I fall over my feet. Flowing Gold The hired hands protest; and the gondolier, cheated out of his commission, sorrows greatly, but obeys your command to move on. Europe Revised Sometimes they were laid behind a stone wall, and left there to die, and at other times a hired hand would carry them to the hospital. Heroes Every Child Should Know He often worked for me as a hired hand at the same time that I was his deputy. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography One of the foremen told me that three hired hands would do as much as five or six of the members. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation I'm not much better than a hired hand. Main-Travelled Roads She was skipper of all the hired hands and, bein' as Effie was prettier than she was, never lost a chance to lay the poor girl out. The Depot Master Every one was well fortified with brown cigarette papers and smoking tobacco, and singly and in groups we were soon smoking like hired hands and reviewing the incidents of the morning. The Outlet And the way them hired hands carried on was somethin' scandalous—till I stepped in and took charge of the deck. The Depot Master |
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