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“Their sellswords will want the gold, though. What are the hostages to them? If the Yunkishmen refuse, it will drive a blade between them and their hirelings.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Besides, his tasks were those of a hireling; no matter how expertly he did them, he could not hope to progress to anything better, as even the most stupid apprentice did. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
"I am pleased to hear it, my lord. Some of your sister's hirelings are mine as well, unbeknownst to her. I should hate to think they had grown so sloppy as to be seen." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
He designed it himself with Count Rugen’s help, and he sent his hirelings across the world to stock it for him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
He was not accustomed to being called “honored master” by even his lowliest hireling. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
The third section states: "No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ..." How 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' racist or not, became our national anthem 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.” Perspective | A song doesn’t have to scream U!S!A! to be patriotic. Just ask the NFL. 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z
We always hear the first stanza, but in the third stanza there's a line that goes, "No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave." "What is American music?": Ryan Coogler leads a fresh exploration of the national anthem 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z
Indeed, the oft-overlooked third verse of Key’s original text proclaims, “No refuge could save the hireling & slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.” Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z
Isma’s clothes are frisked so thoroughly that the security hirelings seem to be “not so much searching for hidden pockets as judging the quality of the material.” In ‘Home Fire,’ Lives Touched by Immigration, Jihad and Family Love 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z
"No hireling or slaves should be free from the gloom of the grave." Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z
He impersonated what I took him to be – writer, walker, culturally burdened European – so beautifully that I wondered if this was an actor, a hireling. WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker 2013-04-20T07:00:25Z
But after her hireling turned protege persuaded Deborah to revamp her act by making it more personal and intimate, the comedy veteran decided she needed to take her new show on the road. Review | The returns of ‘Hacks’ and ‘Girls5eva’ are the comebacks we need 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z
Proslavery raiders were not polished aristocrats but “hirelings picked from the drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civilization.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
It pointed to the third verse of Francis Scott Key’s poem, which includes the line: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.” Tulsa semipro soccer team to replace pregame national anthem 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z
Chinook helicopter at around 1 a.m. during fighting with the “invaders and their hirelings.” 2 US service members killed in chopper crash in Afghanistan 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z
Instead, we saw mostly waxen, strained faces in the dinner procession of mismatched royals and American hirelings. Opinion | Trump’s royal visit to the U.K. proves money can’t buy you class  2019-06-04T04:00:00Z
And it stayed online for more than five hours, prompting jokes and confusion across the Internet even before his hirelings in the White House press office were awake. All jokes aside, Trump's 'covfefe' tweet sparks questions, too 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z
Colonial Americans had classed “hirelings” with paupers, servants, and slaves as weak dependents undeserving of full equality. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
The third stanza reads, ‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave.’ Colin Kaepernick’s brave decision: An open letter to the 49ers quarterback 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z
But a lesser known third verse, which has the line "no refuge could save the hireling and slave" is often interpreted as celebrating the deaths of slaves who died siding with the British. Colin Kaepernick anthem row: What happened next - BBC News 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z
He followed his usual pattern of denial, then lies, then finger-pointing, then name-calling and ultimately blaming a hireling. The Republican National Convention’s twists and turns 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z
Thirty million people will see firsthand what comes of a comfy childhood and extended adolescence and the life of a tycoon with a childlike worldview unchallenged by the hirelings and sapsuckers around him. The shame of the graduation speaker 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z
While antebellum workshops were still small by later standards, the Market Revolution undermined opportunities for independent artisans and kept growing numbers of adult men in the uncomfortable position of lifelong “hirelings,” sometimes called “wage slaves.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
Some of that decrease is due to tort reforms at the state and federal level, and some is due to prosecutions of corrupt plaintiffs’ lawyers and their hirelings. Why the Trial Bar and Its Friends Detest Arbitration 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z
They would occupy a gated stratosphere far above the madding crowd while their political hirelings below look after their earthly interests. The plutocrats are winning: American democracy is being sold off, piece by piece 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z
President Assad lost little time in dubbing all the Riyadh participants as either terrorists or political hirelings of outside powers, neither of whom he would talk with. Syria conflict: Can Saudi pressure secure peace? - BBC News 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z
A pro-Taliban website said that “a number of martyrdom seekers armed with heavy and light weapons entered Kandahar air base undetected” and attacked “invaders and hirelings.” At Least 9 Killed as Taliban Suicide Bombers Attack Kandahar Base 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z
He said the Taliban would take revenge on the Americans and their Afghan “hirelings.” Doctors Without Borders: 19 dead in Afghan clinic airstrike 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z
The Taliban denied that Kunduz had slipped from its grasp, saying its fighters had repelled “hirelings,” as they refer to Afghan security forces. Afghan forces reclaim Kunduz, but face questions about why city fell 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
The insurgent group referred to the Afghan army as “hireling commando forces” in a purported Twitter statement Thursday. 3 killed in Taliban attack on Afghan army bus 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z
Rather than supplying them with machetes, missiles and matches, Nigerian politicians are now arming their hirelings with laptops, smart phones and internet connections. Letter from Africa: Internet warriors 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z
The MP mode runs alongside SP in a narrative sense, with the MP characters functioning as hirelings of sorts for the Inquisitor, running operations on their behalf. 'Dragon Age: Inquisition' Has Co-Op Multiplayer Mode, Microtransactions 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z
“ISIS is the hirelings of America, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel,” said Sadeghi as he fingered worry beads. Iranians rally to support Iraq; some blame Sunni insurgency on U.S. 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z
If, however, she did know and still allowed Obama to present this as a mellow moment of national satisfaction, she is condign punishment for his choice of such hirelings. The rogue president
He denounced the current government in Kabul as a bunch of “hirelings” and urged Afghans not to work with them. Leader Says Taliban Will Sit Out 2014 Afghan Election 2013-08-06T23:46:41Z
Different buildings supply different types of hirelings and sometimes other resources such as gold or an extra Quest or Intrigue card. 'Lords Of Waterdeep' Review: A Euro-Style Dungeons And Dragons Game 2013-05-10T18:02:41Z
As the magazine prepared to publish the list, the prince's hirelings wrote to protest at an undervaluation that, to quote one of several letters, "strikes in the face of improving Saudi-American bilateral relations and co-operation". It's shameful the way Britain kowtows to the super-rich 2013-03-09T08:30:00Z
One for me and one for my pawn and my two hireling pawns. What Dragon's Dogma Should Copy From Shadow Of The Colossus (That It Hasn't Already) 2012-07-04T03:55:10Z
Every tree which one sets with his own hands is better than those which the hireling and stranger have set. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z
Petty hirelings whose one idea of efficiency is to raise obstacles and to quibble over unimportant details; those are the stumbling blocks. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z
Resources largely boil down to different types of hirelings: Orange cubes represent Fighters, Purple are Wizards, Black are Rogues, and White are Clerics. 'Lords Of Waterdeep' Review: A Euro-Style Dungeons And Dragons Game 2013-05-10T18:02:41Z
September first 1615 Months after Marlowe’s murder, I learned that the Queen had had hirelings kill him. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z
There are many hirelings, and because they are hirelings they care only for shearing, not for feeding the sheep!” and he draws a deplorable picture of the Spanish Church, distracted with heretics, Jews, and Saracens. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z
If these trout were to be cooked by "hireling hands," the very woods would be desecrated, and the smoke of the sacrifice would be an abomination. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z
Voices Stone the hireling.—He would sell the town to the Chaldeans.—He prays for our defeat.—Slay him. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z
It is in a secret communication between hireling spies and paid informers that these ferocious sentiments are attributed to the poor knight of the soap-pot. Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War 2012-04-04T02:01:00.923Z
This exhibition of faithfulness on the part of Indian hirelings is worthy of note in the face of many accusations of treachery on the part of their race. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z
Of old the bully swaggered free, He recked not how the fight arose; He wore his warlike panoply, A hireling and a man of blows. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z
For years those five had fought a persevering and apparently hopeless fight against the strength of Imperial arms, Imperial gold, and the lungs of Imperial hirelings. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z
To flinch was to be lessened for ever in the eyes of the meaner villains, his hirelings; to dare was to confirm the evil pre-eminence he claimed. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z
Every morning some one must rouse him, as a hireling is roused to his daily labor. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z
There is freemasonry among "hirelings," I think: they know how to protect themselves and their riders. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z
Their hirelings are plotting to make a great steal on their own account. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z
He would never have been contented with the superb quietness of contempt by which Berryer in one of his latest speeches crushed Granier de Cassagnac, the abject serf and hireling of Imperialism. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z
We should get guns and drive these troops, these hirelings, from the range. The Iron Boys as Foremen or, Heading the Diamond Drill Shift 2012-02-28T03:00:24.413Z
Here, in some dark recess of a dungeon, Suffolk's hireling villains "dispatched the Duke." Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z
Brutal in political debate and brazen in political chicanery, he was a fit leader for the band of hirelings he had organized with no small skill. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z
Dean notes that some Chinese couples see the procedure as strictly a business transaction, viewing the surrogate mother as a hireling. Chinese couples come to U.S. to have children through surrogacy 2012-02-19T02:08:00Z
To be afoot while hireling troopers spurned his own clods in his face, and all without leave or license, all where he and his forebears had exercised the low justice and the high for centuries! The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z
And yet--the hireling had been sadly rude to the mother in the presence of the darlings. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z
Sometimes, however, the witch is the hireling of some one intent on injuring a particular person and keen on capturing the soul for this purpose, though too frightened to kill his enemy outright. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z
In battle, one southron is equivalent to ten northern hirelings; but I regard it a waste of time to speak of Yankees—they deserve not our attention. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z
With his own hand must the deed be done--not be trusted to a hireling, even to a samurai. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z
"As the hireling earnestly desireth the shadow," so I longed for evening, but truly the hours of that day were "long drawn out." Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z
But the perpetrators of these outrages were in fact not Christians: they were either hypocrites from the beginning or else base apostates—infidels or something worse—hireling wolves, whose gospel was their maw. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z
You are a mean, contemptible wretch: the base hireling of a baser villain. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z
I want you to swear that you will not vote for a man who called the soldiers in the field, Lincoln hirelings. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z
He was a tiller of the ground, besides, a hireling farm servant, whose agricultural methods, though seemingly irregular, caused his master's granaries to overflow. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z
The matter of his admission to her dwelling had been arranged by Ribâta the week before, through hirelings whom he had kept in the temple precincts for some months past. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z
It was not the paid work of hirelings, indifferent to their contents, which, up to the invention of printing, wrought this multiplication. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z
But though they received countenance and aid from many influential men in Boston, those hirelings of Slavery could not help feeling ashamed of their business. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z
The outlaws are styled brigands, and to these may be added troops of runaway hirelings of the priests, who have committed such dreadful ravages during the last few years. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z
The leader would not know how to talk to his followers, when some might be hirelings and some free, without his knowing which were which. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z
Can we then imagine any lengths to which a hireling clergy would not go in their routine of deception to secure for life riches, honors, ease and luxury? Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z
The idea is worthy of corrupt political hirelings of a degenerate church, which is out for nothing but profit. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z
Thou knowest not who is a hireling, who a shepherd, before the wolf comes; but the wolf makes manifest in what manner he watches the sheep. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z
Observing a Pope's hireling on her right, Julia began to regret having accepted the landlord's invitation, and while glancing round the table with a chagrined air, was electrified by encountering Muzio's eyes fixed upon her. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z
We need not say how such a subject as this would be treated by the cheated hirelings of the Yellow Cover. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z
He did not care two straws for the opinion of his fellow hirelings. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z
Yet the Swiss hireling under foreign pay is a mischievous institution. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z
He is a hireling and not a shepherd, who is engaged in worldly things, and loves dignity and perishable rewards, and has no inward love for God's sheep. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z
And are the hirelings of the priests less cruel? Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z
I turned my hireling at the bank by the roadside, he came round with a responsive swing, and in two large and orderly bounds he was over. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z
I will now go down from this tree; and I will slaughter many of thy hirelings before they slay me. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z
Dr. Kirsten, it would appear, is either a natural and habitual grumbler, or a paid hireling. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z
"That thou shouldst enter thy house and none but thy hireling to meet thee!" Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z
In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z
Flavin, the horse dealer, had, after all, been as good as Flurry's word—the hirelings were here, and all was right with the world. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z
But Angus gave him a blow which hurled him to the ground under the shape of Dermat, so that the hirelings fell on him and slew him. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z
But you are not so at present—you are the hirelings of the Pope! John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch 2011-10-12T02:00:44.710Z
He could not have entered into any war that did not appear to him sacred, and in such a cause his "testimony" could not be that of a "hireling." The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z
Is it necessary, then, that I leave this poor innocent to hirelings? The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z
For me, in the unwonted glory of heading the desperadoes of the first flight, life and the future were contained in the question of how much longer I could count on my hireling. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z
Then making a close, firm fence of shields and spears round Deirdre, they marched out in solid ranks and attacked the hireling battalions and slew three hundred in that onslaught. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z
Yes, you are hirelings, without a feeling of your dignity as men, or of the importance of your mission, although you call yourselves the chosen, honoured, and consecrated servants of the Lord! John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch 2011-10-12T02:00:44.710Z
Could they get a respectable hireling to look after them if they tried? Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z
A mighty quiver ran through the hireling force. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z
All national affairs, therefore, ought to be conducted with a view to the general good, and not for the mere aggrandizement of a privileged and self-elected set of hirelings. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z
But Dermat flung him down like the others, while Angus gave him for the time the shape of Dermat, so that the hirelings slew him. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z
In the October of this year, the Princess of Wales removed to Marseilles, weary of the attempts to traduce and insult her character by hirelings from the English court. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z
Shall a fanatic horde in power Send forth a base and hireling band To desolate our happy land And make our Southern freemen cower? Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z
From every side blows were aimed at him, but the hireling troops were prevented by those who came after from closing around him. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z
He could hardly be said to know the nation, except by the representation of his hirelings. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z
And Oscar joined him, looking back threateningly, so that no man of Finn's hirelings durst follow. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z
The hireling part of the press, notwithstanding, strove to eternize this awful and barbarous system, and thus assisted the minister to cherish the growth of Ignorance. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z
Smite the motley hireling throng; Smite! as Heaven smites the wrong; Smite! they fly before the strong, In God and Liberty! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z
It was the breaking in of a fine hireling upon the man of brains and accomplishments, the call upon him for aid in this time of casual need. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z
So that is it!" said he again to Stanislav; "thou hast hirelings, and art standing behind them. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z
And marshalling his men, and causing the great door to be thrown wide open, he sallied forth and scattered the assailants, and put out the fires: slaying thrice fifty hirelings in that onslaught. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z
In his opinion, the good of the people was the supreme law; but this was opposed to the sentiments of the hirelings of state and their liberal mistress. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z
Though their plunder-paid hordes come to ravage our land, Give our fields to the spoiler, our homes to the brand, Our souls are all aglow, To face the hireling foe. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z
Among his hirelings there were not many like Kettling, and it was just to suppose that at the first news of the coming of Sapyeha's troops they would desert him to a man. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z
It will distinguish us from the hirelings of slavery. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z
Here too, for the first time, Kmita saw soldiers encamped in a church,--in a splendid Gothic structure, founded almost two hundred years before by Bishop Gijytski, were quartered hireling German infantry. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z
Stipends for a hire to their hireling curates. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z
Like all who will not walk in the light, he hated the light; like all hirelings of two masters, he hated the one he left. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z
But though the hearts of the older men were strengthened, the destructive planting of that hireling had given forth fruits of poison. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z
They would never employ a white overseer, as they said "a hireling could not make allowance for the negroes as they did." Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 2011-08-19T02:00:11.243Z
Only the hireling master wreaks his will On slaves, lest rulers they become at last, And his poor hour of pride is waned and passed: The rightful lord fears never to be just. Poems 2011-08-16T02:00:47.467Z
Congress could not see why, if these hirelings were to be sold, they should not do the selling themselves instead of their Princes. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z
Here then, in view of the precautions thus forced upon our Lord, we pause to reflect upon the awful fall of Judas, the degradation of an apostle into a hireling, a traitor, and a spy. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z
But if you think that I am one of those Who hides behind her hireling's her joy, You know me ill. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z
It will be remembered that in their first venture as hirelings of the Peary propaganda, they balked at the north-east ridge, without making a serious attempt. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z
There I shall dwell, beyond the reach of any of their hirelings. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z
You know that we have been called bank agents, bank advocates, bank hirelings. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z
May God's people heed the warning to have no fellowship with such who as hirelings do the work of false prophets. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z
Sloville was to be the first to raise the standard, to strike off its fetters, to emancipate the country from the grasp of a hireling soldiery, a tithe-fed clergy, and a bloated aristocracy. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z
By Christian pay were hireling lawyers retained—by Christian witnesses confronted—by the Christian Press misrepresented—by Christian juries found guilty, by Christian judges condemned.' The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z
But primarily the parable is simply an adaptation of Ezekiel's famous indictment of the hireling shepherds of Israel, who had first exploited Jehovah's flock, and then abandoned it to the ravening of wild beasts. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z
The suggestion was immediately adopted; before the hireling band could bring their weapons to the charge, the multitude had closed in upon them, and disarmed them to a man. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z
But your servant, your hireling, I cannot be! On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z
He has a severe word for the Archbishop, as a hireling who turned and fled when the wolf pressed on the panting lamb within his reach. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z
You can trust me," she said, on her pale lips a wistful flicker that hardly was a smile.—"I too was a—hireling, once. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z
The special application made by the fourth evangelist is to the gathering of a flock already scattered, bleeding, and torn of beasts, because of the faithlessness of hireling shepherds. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z
The charges on which these warrants were issued were, in the main, preposterous perjuries by the hirelings of the Governor. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z
Hate the dastardly poets of half-measures, the preachers of cowardice, the hirelings who hold thee back from every bold enterprise. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z
At first the master of grammar and of song was merely a hireling, a clerk, probably, who was attached in some subordinate capacity to the institution. Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z
Quite aggravated cases of oppression have come under my observation, which I have discovered by noticing the sway held over children by these hirelings, who bring them to and from school. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z
The house on the Drive had not contained only servants, as now it must—servants who were merely servants, too, not the faithful, devoted, tactful servitors of romance, but the average modern hireling. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z
This was shared, openly, by the hireling colt from the mountains as she clattered in at intervals with hot water or more butter. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z
That this may be, who shall rush upon this pitiful fellow, upon this hireling traitor, Kotzebue? The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z
It would be barbarous unkindness, if he were very sick, to stand aloof and leave the charge of him to hirelings. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z
These, hirelings, to augment their salaries, soon commenced a course of oppressions on the people, whom they treated with great insolence. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z
Ha! a hireling follower of some cringing Hebrew! Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z
He was associated with sordid hirelings, gross and uneducated, who treated his age with rude familiarity, and insulted his ears with ribaldry and scurrilous jests. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z
She was surrounded by hirelings, devoid of personal attachment, and anxious only to convert her misfortunes to their own advantage. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z
He heard on the street of the vagrancy sale, and seized the opportunity offered him to secure a free hireling. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z
Lord Clarendon was, of course, unaware of his hireling's police-court experiences, and he agreed with his private secretary's recommendation of Mr. Birch. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z
In England, it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z
The engineer who drives the train, From scalds he oft doth suffer pain, And they are more noble scars, Than hirelings gain in foreign wars. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z
They are at best but hirelings, and are as treacherous as the foul fiend. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z
Rouse up, O young men of the New Age! set your foreheads against the ignorant hirelings! William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
They have in every precinct, ward, town, city, county and state, their hirelings who beguile the people into voting as they dictate. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z
With some hirelings he goes to the lonely house, and murders Pompilia and her parents. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z
With so many Austrians in the garrison at Milan—above all, those hireling Bohemian regiments—I don’t think there’s a chance of our success.” The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z
Miserable hireling of a diabolical Lincoln, your wife is nothing to me. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z
For we have hirelings in the camp, the court, and the university; who would, if they could, for ever depress mental and prolong corporeal war. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
The Holy City was now besieged by the hireling host of France, acting under Oudinot; and the London lawyer had to stay outside. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z
Of course I was dogged by the hireling, but I had arranged a plan which gave him no advantage over me. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z
“Meantime, I suppose, your hirelings are tumbling up this park haystack according to the directions of that cryptogram you took from Mrs. Sturgis’ wall-safe?” Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z
"O, nothing," says the female Confederacy, taking another bite of hoe-cake, "I've only told one of the servants to throw some hot water on your reptile hirelings." The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z
From your extensive entourage of steel-clad hirelings, it is evident you fear a second chastisement at my hands. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z
But first we must dispose of these hirelings. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z
He stood on that floor as an orthodox clergyman, but he would as soon exchange with the devil as one of those hireling priests—those traitors to humanity. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z
Allen sent a glance of appeal among his hirelings, but elicited no response. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z
Sit down, poor hirelings of a gorilla despot, and learn what it is to taste the hospitality of a Southern gentleman. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z
In the day of trial, the retainer and the hireling will seek a refuge, every man for himself. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z
Use them, and you shall have the treatment you more deserve—that accorded to hirelings and brigands!” The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z
The professed Church of Christ is false, and its hireling priesthood unworthy of confidence.” History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z
Distorted by surprise and annoyance was the expression of the man crouched behind the powder cart, but not enough so to mask one of the hirelings of the Lauderdale enemy. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z
Over two hundred of the Foresters against less than a sixth of that number of Lunsford’s hirelings, he had no fear for the result, if fight they must. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z
I, in his place, would have paid you back, not by proxy, through hirelings, but in person. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z
The perjured King of Prussia was the man called upon to wield it, and his hireling soldiers proved too strong for the patriots of the Schwarzwald. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z
And man hath set some in the church, first, a hireling priest; secondly, a board of officers; thirdly, tracts; then commentaries, creeds, and diversities of opinions; hence, societies and wondrous helps. A Voice of Warning An introduction to the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-13T03:00:21.363Z
Those Hessians are a d—d set of hirelings.” Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z
It was the angrily imperious summons of a lady who is disappointed in her hireling. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z
Was it worth being saved from murder at the hands of Lord Alderby's hirelings on Breakneck Stairs, to swing a few months later at Tyburn? The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z
But English gold was easily convertible into French soldiers, whose sovereign had no such scruples; and these hirelings were selected to restore the Pope. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z
Tracts, creeds, sermons and commentaries of uninspired men, together with a hireling priesthood, are now necessary in order to keep men from being carried about with every wind of doctrine, etc. A Voice of Warning An introduction to the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-13T03:00:21.363Z
A sense of honor bids them go, To meet a hireling, ruthless foe, And deal in wrath the deadly blow Which vengeance loud demands. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z
We must confess, that overstock the world as you will with comforts and with luxuries, we do not see how to make capital relax its monopoly—how to do aught but tantalize the hireling. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z
Isabel gave a little shiver as she glanced at the lonely landscape, and thought how a brace of hireling scoundrels might spring suddenly across the hedge, and bear her off to a convenient postchaise. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z
Even then, it seems, he took high ground, and let it be known that he was no mere hireling. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z
No sooner did the hireling pianist desist than a little cluster gathered around the instrument, assured him that he must be tired, and volunteered to play. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z
Guarded is every street, Brutal the hireling foe; Is there one heart here will boldly dare So brave a deed to do? Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z
It invades every recess of domestic life, infects its food, its clothing, its drink, its very atmosphere, and pursues the hireling, from the hovel to the poor-house, the prison and the grave. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z
Sir, I have toiled as a 'hireling manual laborer' in the field and in the workshop; and I tell the senator from South Carolina that I never 'felt galled by my degradation.' Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z
But he meant to take my life when I escaped the pursuit of his hirelings in Italy. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z
The hireling came back, and all went on merrily again. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z
Come forth, ye gallant heroes, Rub up each rusty gun, And face these hireling Yankees, Who live by tap of drum. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z
Courage, and the poor hireling may yet be a Marchioness. The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet 2011-02-23T03:00:30.700Z
I, too, have been a 'hireling manual laborer.' Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z
The hireling priests, the pharisees of Christendom, prevailed nothing. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z
In his case the master is the hireling of the servant.  The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z
Down with the hireling that seeks now to rend The homes which your ancestors fought to defend; Rekindle the beacon ere the last spark is fled, And light up the camp-fires round Liberty’s bed! Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z
Shall hateful Tyrants, mischief breeding, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z
I have employed others, hundreds of 'hireling manual laborers.' Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z
By her inspired, the new-born race Soon drew the avenging steel, man; The hirelings ran—her friends gied chase And banged the despot weel, man. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z
He never employed 'union men,' and his hirelings never stayed with him longer than they could help. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z
The Northern rabble aims for greed; The hireling parson goads the train— In that foul crop from bigot seed, Old “Praise God Barebones” howls again! Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z
A part of it may have been performed by the stragglers of that army—in nine cases out of ten a European hireling—French, Irish, or German. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z
Sir, I am the son of a 'hireling manual laborer' who, with the frosts of seventy winters on his brow, 'lives by daily labor.' Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z
He was, perhaps, the most cautious driver extant, and the secret amusement of his hireling chauffeur. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z
He has underlings, but I do not think they are accomplices or confederates, they are merely hirelings. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z
A hireling band had come to awe, Our chains to rivet fast; Yon lofty pile scowls on our homes, Seaward the hostile mast. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z
This hireling Lincoln shall never, never be President. The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, 2011-01-17T03:00:42.913Z
Honest labor is honorable; and the man who is ashamed that he is or was a 'hireling laborer' has not manhood enough to 'feel galled by his degradation.' Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z
When a boy I had done both fifty times, and it was a somewhat common experiment among the male domestics and hirelings of the household. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z
"Is it possible that Castro's hirelings have penetrated into this region?" asked Jack, as a feeler. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z
Shall a fanatic horde in power Send forth a base and hireling band, To desolate our happy land, And make our Southern freemen cower. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z
True, O traitorous hireling! and by God alone. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z
Baron Grenwitz's only daughter in love with a hireling, a low-born person, who received wages and his board from her parents! Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z
He was called a "d——d aristocrat," and a hireling is the pay of "d——d aristocrats." The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work: so am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z
No! let the despot’s hireling band, Who feel not honor—know not faith, Who war not for their native land, Fly trembling from a dreaded death. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z
Rideghváry read only too plainly in the faces of his partisans and hirelings that his rule was at an end. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z
"And the actual producer is only a hireling, and so they just pay him subsistence, and even that is very little." Fizzy future 2010-02-19T12:22:00Z
Yes, the same principles would just as soon give this hireling my home and farm as it would give any tenant on my estate that which he worked. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z
Are not his days also like the days of a hireling? True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z
Here he was kneeling over the unstirring woman he had loved while out there were the murder hirelings who had brought about the tragedy. The Law of Hemlock Mountain
The hireling knew enough to think for himself, and seeing the gate begin to swing, decided that a shorter stride would be safer. H.M.S. ——
Unlike the older hirelings, they were permanently organized, and thus, with their experience and discipline, became the best troops in existence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of"
Mowbray, whose judgment was cooler and truer in the frenzy of a fight than when a woman’s eyes assailed him, did not forget that where Jai Singh had introduced his hirelings others might follow. The Great Mogul
The southpaw was suddenly attacked by an intense distaste for the company of Tom Garrity’s coarse hireling. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager
Taste was discouraged, and beauty driven out of our work; no wonder, then, that the young and careless shunned it altogether, and threw as much of it as they could into the hands of hirelings. Household Organization
He saw Sangatte look back and then wrench his brown mare round to ride off the hireling as it passed. H.M.S. ——
No one but his hirelings were near, and it was no innate, dormant worth or goodness which stayed his hand. The Man from Jericho
He, like his English friends, had thought it better to brave Jahangir’s animosity in Agra itself than fall beneath the attack of hirelings in some distant fray. The Great Mogul
And then, even as I descended from the hireling, and entered the inner porch with my companion, I thought of the last time that I had heard a small car mentioned. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune
Thy little arms stretch forth in vain To meet a mother's fond embrace; Alas! in weariness or pain, Thou gazest on a hireling's face. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845
They were answered by legions of hireling troops in all the panoply of war with the shrill bugle grating harshly upon the ear. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
As he set about dressing Marston reviewed it all mentally; the success of his hireling's venture, the dismay and consternation of the Dudleys, the total lack of proof as to who committed the crime. The Man from Jericho
Minutes passed, until the stout Kutub-ud-din, hiding near the gate with a horde of hirelings, grew impatient that his vice-regal throne in Bengal was not assured. The Great Mogul
This was a car very much more gorgeous than the hireling in which we were setting forth on our quest. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune
How each man tried to hide his shortcomings, and how those who were "passed" as fit blew themselves, and swaggered and talked loud and boastfully like the hirelings they were. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster
It had a powerful and salutary effect and met with a response from the people that, caused the hirelings of the crown to fly from the province like chaff before the wind. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
So the hireling was instructed and given a leave of absence to go and "set up with ther gal in Leslie County." The Tempering
All the "invading hirelings" were to be killed, gobbled up, and other dire calamities were to befall them. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document
In a clump of olive trees and beside a limpid spring, they came upon a hut occupied by motherless children, alone and unprotected, the hireling having left the day before. The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril
"They are hirelings, of course, as I am, and as you are," said M'Caskey. Tony Butler
Governor Wright, with his hireling phalanx, used great exertions to obtain a written pledge from the inhabitants of each parish to sustain the mother country and submit more implicitly to the yoke of bondage. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
If for the hireling shot from the laurel they had no other response than retaliation in kind, they were only rising to the bait of a lawless and unimaginative enemy. The Tempering
The lady employ�s, as a means of recreation, would gaze at the Yankee hirelings in the prison-yard. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document
She found them easily and shortly, for the hireling servants of the house had fled in haste, taking nothing with them. The Firebrand
Hence a hireling who without scruple carries out the orders of his master is up to the highest point of the age--such a fellow has taken his stand on servility. The Progressionists, and Angela.
Mr. Read and his coadjutors understood the rights secured by Magna Charta and the Constitution of England and knew that those rights were trampled upon by the hirelings of the crown. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
After he had served for long years as a hireling for a hireling's wage, it brought him back at length to the threshold of the promised Canaan. Misread Passage of Scriptures
These are mere hirelings, and of a low sort, such as a slave system reduces them to; and if they are lazy, the work slackens; and if they are ill-natured, somebody suffers. To Cuba and Back
And marshalling his men, and causing the great door to be thrown wide open, he sallied forth and scattered the assailants and put out the fires: slaying thrice fifty hirelings in that onslaught. A Reading Book in Irish History
Don't you perceive," cried he, "that Holt is a hireling of the priests? The Progressionists, and Angela.
An army was to be raised and organized, military stores provided, fortifications erected, rules of government adopted, plans of operation matured, internal foes to be encountered and legions of hireling soldiers to be repelled. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Where praise and exaltation are a spontaneous instinct, there is loyal service and every good work, not rendered by a hireling but a child. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus
The mechanic, the hireling, the sharpener of tools, he must never keep more than a day. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII
Then making a close firm fence of shields and spears round Deirdre, they marched out in solid ranks and attacked the hireling battalions and slew three hundred in that onslaught. A Reading Book in Irish History
We are merely servants, we are hirelings, and what need a hireling care whether that which his master commands is right or not? The Progressionists, and Angela.
He was courted by the hirelings of the crown with the promise of high honors. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Have you defrauded the hireling of his wages? Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments
There were months when the young man was hunted through the hills of Judea by the hirelings of the wicked king, as if he had been a mad dog. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day
But as the hireling hordes returned to the attack, he went forth a second time and fell on them, dealing death and havoc whither-soever he went. A Reading Book in Irish History
For this insolent hireling of a Coercionist Government to speak in tones of studied slight of such a demonstration was more than J. S. A. T. P. could stand. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890
The hirelings of the crown saw the writing upon many walls and were suddenly attacked with a Belshazzar tremor and found no balance in America to restore an equilibrium. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
I can't conceive of anything more odious than having a hireling for a companion. Shadows of Flames A Novel
It was pronounced a musty and barbarous prejudice to keep women at home, for the supervision of their sons and daughters, their hirelings, their domestic service and economy. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second
After all, the tiger was a tiger, and they were but hirelings. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion
Put back your poniard, my lord," he added lightly, "the penniless adventurer and paid hireling is unworthy of your steel. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel
He left his plough in the furrow to avenge the wrongs that were heaped upon his country by the hirelings of the crown. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Milton was thinking of it when he exclaimed: "Help us to save free conscience from the paw, Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw." The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America
Jesus also claims to be the Good Shepherd, and sets Himself in contrast to hirelings and robbers. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I
The blood of those murdered miners is on your head—and those innocent women and children burned to death by your hirelings. Thirty
I exhibited them as mere hirelings, the cowardly bravos of a degenerate age; and, of course,—for Paris was always the same in this respect,—various duels were fastened on me for my insolence. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience
He was a sensible lawyer and opposed to the usurpations of the hirelings of mother Britain although himself secretary of his native province when the revolutionary storm commenced its pitiless peltings. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
My garden, the wilder land beyond, the moors on which yesterday my incompetence as a shot had roused the contempt of my cousin and of my hirelings—all were lost to view. Bye-Ways
This differentiation of the hireling and the good shepherd was, in the first instance, exemplified in the different conduct of the authorities and Jesus towards the blind man. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I
He brought many of his hirelings and demanded that Lewis vacate the house at once. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia
He gleaned that Airedales were difficult to raise; that Caruso would return; that all coachmen were but hirelings of the sales stables, when you got at the root of the trouble. Ewing\\'s Lady
He had seen her coffers yawning to receive the ill gotten treasures wrested from his fellow citizens by the hireling tax gatherers. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
They considered the Hessians mere hirelings; slaves to a petty despot, fighting for sordid pay, and actuated by no sentiment of patriotism or honor. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools
The hireling takes up this business of shepherding for his own sake, and just as he might take to keeping swine, or watching vineyards, or making bricks. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I
It might have been the bazaar sergeant, or it might have been an hireling who was charged with the disposal of the body. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel
But to be robbed by this miserable hireling, this pop-eyed dispenser of bad cocktails, himself in a state of the most abject funk, roused all the stubbornness of which I was capable. Where the Pavement Ends
Astonishment and delight held his electrified audience captive as he painted the increasing infringements of the hirelings of the crown in bold and glowing colors. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
After each breakdown, Flora’s dread of being alone with her husband increased in violence, while he shrank more sensitively from the services of a hireling. What a Man Wills
The "ever-faithful" island has exhibited unmistakable symptoms of infidelity, its demonstrations of loyalty being confined to the government officials and the hireling soldiery. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time
Again I protested that I was used to such attacks, that I knew all about the wretched hireling creatures who wrote them, and that instead of offending, they positively amused me,—actually made me laugh. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance
"Well done, hireling," he observed, in the voice of a crow. Where the Pavement Ends
The goadings and insolence of British hirelings had deeply penetrated his patriotic soul and prepared him for bold and noble action. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Well, I’ll have you to know, you young hireling, that I’m my own master. Dorothy on a House Boat
She knew by this time that Jotan had nothing to do with her abduction; no hireling of his would dare handle her so roughly. Warrior of the Dawn
There is no need that we sing restrainedly of our goodly dower, or in measured words, for we are no servile race of hirelings, but free men and proclaimers of this land. Seeds of Pine
These hirelings usually receive about five francs a day, but as the number of the chevaliers of the revolutionary lustrum increases, the pay diminishes, until it is finally reduced to forty sous. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty
His knowledge of the intentions of the mother country to impose increasing burdens upon the Americans enabled him to fully understand every movement of the monarchical hirelings around him. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
I trust Andrew Moreton's scheme, generously offered for the public good, will meet with as fair a reception as that of this hireling projector. Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies
From the Courts "above" he soon descended to those "below;" he became dissipated and dissolute, his hireling pen scrupled at nothing, and he assailed anything or any one, to order. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day
There were the sons of rude Thracia, Constantinus and Bessas, who had worked their way up from the rank of rough hirelings; brave soldiers, but without culture, and filled with the presumption of self-made men. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Still keen remorse embitters every joy, Altho’ the parties can by bribes decoy: Such hirelings as their influence can bind, And clap a padlock on the tongue and mind. Characters from Life or Moral Hints. In Verse
The hirelings of the King treated these essays with derision—upon the people they exerted an influence that prepared them for the approaching crisis. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
He was the hireling of this man—not his associate. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients
“Do you go now, three hundred of my savage hirelings, and bring him.” The Irish Fairy Book
Why should I?—a mere police detective, who had been hired to do a service and paid for it like any other hireling. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories
The answer to these things, whether mine or no, was all pointed at me, and the arguments were generally in the terms villain, rascal, miscreant, liar, bankrupt, fellow, hireling, turncoat, &c. An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies. Being A True Account of His Conduct in Public Affairs.
All admitted the justice of this measure but some opposed it on the ground of the physical imbecility of the colonies—already crowded with a hireling army and their shores lined with a powerful navy. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
His opinions, therefore, are not those of an ignorant fanatic, or a hireling of the Government, but must be considered as an expression of those entertained by the upper classes of Russian society. A Treatise on Relics
No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906
But Rubens got the credit, not his hirelings. The Ego Machine
That was a time, when neither the hireling patriot nor the calumnious press could sow discord between you. St. Patrick's Eve
As the crisis was urged on by the hirelings of the crown his opposition increased in an equal ratio. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Your own country, and your country's cause, above every other; all else is the hireling's part. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II
Because these people were mill owners, their hirelings and their representatives, who had been instructed in the propaganda of the open shop by employes, aides and emissaries of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association. The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry
Sir Baron, if I give way to my displeasure at the presumption of this hireling. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I.
Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw. Minor Poems by Milton
So delighted were the people with the manner he handled the hirelings of the crown that they elected him to the colonial assembly. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Jacques returned shortly with Bent's thirsty hirelings, and after some negotiations and the promise of horses for them to ride, the Indians accepted his offer. Bring Me His Ears
They were the hirelings of either the mill owners of Everett or the Commercial Club. The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry
For a moment the leader fancied there was a gleam of malice in his hireling’s eye, but he considered it beneath his notice and calmly turned the canoe into the thoroughfare he had chosen. A Daughter of the Forest
Let every man who is Freedom's warrior wear it; it will distinguish us from the hireling host of slavery! Eyes Like the Sea
He scorned to be the hireling or slave of a king. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Have you come here simply to shriek for your rights, and then to disperse quietly, lest you displease the hirelings of the King? Under the Liberty Tree A Story of The 'Boston Massacre'
He was alone, the man had him covered with the rifle, and assuredly this was one of Dunlavey’s hirelings. The Coming of the Law
An independent press is a blessing to a land; but a vagabond or a hireling press is a nuisance. The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842.
You're a capitalistic hireling sent out here to oppress the poor workingman. The Blue Goose
He painted the injustice of the crown and the insults of its hireling officers in vivid colors. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
You are welcome to him; he is as cowardly as any of your hirelings. The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy
For his "splendid abuse"—as his biographer, the unreverend Mr. Barham, calls it—he received the full pay of a greedy hireling. Old and New London Volume I
As if she could ever consent to a hireling occupying her place with her beloved child! Banked Fires
The disappearance of the hireling class was the immediate cause of the downfall of the republic and the institution of the empire, for the aristocracy were left without any antagonist, and therefore without any restraint. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
This blind act was on par with the whole course of the infatuated ministry and their hirelings. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
With such judges and governors, backed by a standing army of hirelings—how soon would her liberty go down, and the Anglo-American States resemble Spanish America! The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence
In another age he'd have been a torpedo—a hireling killer. Turnover Point
The government of England honoured me with a thousand martyrdoms, by burning me in effigy in every town in that country, and their hirelings in America may do the same. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804
Their greed thus excited, every hireling was anxious to earn the reward, and it would certainly be dangerous for any one to attempt again the cruel role of ghost, for detection seemed almost certain. Dainty's Cruel Rivals The Fatal Birthday
The very chivalry that the proud Britons had taught the sons of the Old Dominion was brought to bear upon the hirelings of the crown with the force of an avalanche. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
You recollect the Cradle of Liberty shut to a Free Soil Convention, but open to those hirelings of the Slave Master. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence
It was in this way that the poor little fellow had spent nearly the whole of his short existence,—either in the kitchen or with the servants, fondled, scolded, and educated by hirelings. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day
The new teacher, who does not intend to act the part of an unprincipled hireling, must count on finding watchful enemies as well as friends. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli
While the hireling servants examined by law, Who thought by a stretch to gain some �clat, While before the commissioners named by the King, To investigate matters and witnesses bring,” etc., etc. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.
The Earl was contemplating his hireling, his face expressive of mixed emotions, the rest of us filling up the background as usual. The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson
But the vast majority of them were hirelings, and many of them achieved fame for the bravery of their exploits in the service of the dukes, the princes, and the priests of that time. Violence and the Labor Movement
Showing now defiled His hireling hands, a better help’s achieved Than if they blessed us shepherd-like and mild. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV
The city of Chicago, the officials of which were but the mannikins or hirelings of the industrial magnates, generously supplied the Pullman Company with water at four cents a thousand gallons. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times
Not all the hirelings in the world shall make me break my parole.” Peggy Owen and Liberty
I was here shut off with Fenn and his hireling in a deserted house, a neglected garden, and a wood of evergreens; the most eligible theatre for a deed of darkness. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25)
It is important, however, to emphasize the fact that there is no strike of any magnitude in which these hirelings are not employed. Violence and the Labor Movement
On the receipt of such a letter, the Government lays a trap for its adversaries, and surrounds the threatened spot with hirelings. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25)
Even were it not possible for us to accomplish anything, yet as faithful ministers we must not keep silent if we would not be regarded indolent hirelings who flee when the wolf comes. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent
Ours are no hirelings trained to the fight, With cymbal and clarion, all glittering and bright; No prancing of chargers, no martial display; No war-trump is heard from our silent array. Peggy Owen and Liberty
Every shepherd who is not an hireling "giveth his life for the sheep." The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching
In America "hireling assassins," ex-convicts, and thugs in the employ of detective agencies commit very much the same crimes for the same purpose. Violence and the Labor Movement
“You seem to be unwell, sir,” said the hireling. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25)
He started up-town, and turned back towards the warehouse where Murray was wrangling with his hireling; then, cursing with helpless rage, he swung off down the railroad track and left his broken dreams behind him. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp
In the earlier years of the war it had been swept like a plague by the horde of hireling Hessians and the British army. Peggy Owen and Liberty
These hirelings are not talked down to; they are considered one with the rest. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology
There was, in fact, no very hard duty to perform; but a hireling might have found it hard. Shirley
Defoe was permitted to leave his prison upon condition that he should act in the secret service of the Government, and his work was that of an hireling writer unburdened by principle. The Age of Pope (1700-1744)
Convict Rene de Artigny from the lies of these hirelings, and you pay the reckoning at the point of my sword. Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West
Wages were high, and with one broad epidemic impulse all these thriving hirelings walked, drove, or rode on Saturday night to the little town of Links. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country
Besides, even he and his hirelings were bound to observe the formalities. Carmen Ariza
But the hireling advocates and champions of Christianity have ever treated the apostle's counsel with contempt in their dealings with sceptics and heretics. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)
Yet these hireling priests, who consecrate the banners of war, dare to prate that God is a loving father and that we are all his children. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)
They were the hirelings of the king and government. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
If I mistake not, she is one of the hirelings connected with the plantation.” Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love
Ames’s hirelings, with loaded rifles, assisted the constables and city police in the miserable work, themselves cursing often because of the keen blasts that nipped their ears and numbed their well-cased limbs. Carmen Ariza
For the hireling flees because he is a hireling. The Shepherd of the North
All overawed by the Major's African attitude, the hireling took to whining. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales
The Presbyterian elders became in turn 'hireling wolves,' 'old priest' written in new characters. Bunyan
Send that miserable little hireling away, Rex––the gardener will take charge of her.” Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love
You can tell the presence of the robber by the death of the sheep; the hireling by his cowardice; the true leader by his valor and love. The Social Principles of Jesus
Pretty soon between thirty and forty of the hirelings, armed with bayonets, clubs, and cutlasses, rushed down to the ropewalk. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance
The Gladstonian party in England are responding to the dictates of a handful of hirelings and sacerdotalists, and not to the aspirations of a people. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
What kind of a foreman would it be who would turn her over to a hireling or intrust her innocent mind to a depraved individual like Bill Lightfoot? Hidden Water
Sorry looking hirelings were those two Hessians when they crawled out into the light. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield
Jesus distinguishes three kinds of men who are interested in the sheep—the robber, the hireling, and the shepherd. The Social Principles of Jesus
They consider, therefore, that it would disgrace the memory of their heroic forefathers to fight as mere hirelings. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877
Or call them hireling agitators if you like. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
By this time we had overtaken the hirelings with their carts, and the men were swinging past them at a good pace. The O'Ruddy A Romance
Let the wag have his dinner and the hireling his pay, if you want him, and make a profound bow to the grand homme incompris, and the boisterous martyr, and show him the door. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges
That's what the Lincoln hirelings call the efforts of a free people to maintain their freedom. Rodney The Partisan
A legion of hirelings were zealous to show their servility and loyalty to their lords. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses
To make sweeping statements, to say that this "gutter-snipe," this "hireling calumniator," this "blackguard Birmingham man" has made a series of "reckless calumnies," "devoid of one particle of truth," is not sufficiently precise. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
They were not mere hirelings toiling for a daily wage, but men who had a stake in that region's future, and would share its prosperity, and, had it been otherwise, they were human still. Thurston of Orchard Valley
But, with his hireling House of Commons, he defended liberty for us; with his incredulity he kept Church-craft down. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges
The teaching of the Woods, of their former hireling, the World, and of those who pay that offal now. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863
It is not likely that the sophistry of railroad hirelings will triumph over the practical logic of an intelligent public. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses
"The bare-faced slanders of this hireling scribe from the slums of Birmingham" were hotly denounced, but nobody said what they were. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
I look like a servant, a hireling, a vile menial? The Politician Out-Witted
Repel the tyrant; hurl the hireling forth; That so from thy true priests true hearts may learn True faith, true love, and nothing but the truth!' Legends of the Saxon Saints
The World is a hireling, and does the work by order. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863
To me she was most kind and unremitting in her duties—more, indeed, like a mother than a hireling; and I loved her as if she had stood in that relation to me. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI
A pension he had defined as a pay given to a state hireling to betray his country; a pensioner as a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey a master. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History
He spent a sleepless but happy night, planning out their future together; her redemption from her hireling status, their joint work for their people. Ghetto Comedies
Citizens and people, but not regulars, not hirelings, are to fight the battle of principle. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862
No one in his senses can now doubt how heartily and devotedly Jeff Davis was served by his hirelings among the Copperhead leaders and among the New York Copperhead press. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863
From what is venal derived, and with what meaning? mercenary? hireling? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions
His career from this period, whether as a journalist, or whether as a government hireling employed on secret services, is, to say the least, dishonest. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History
Bare-armed and aproned proprietors of grocery stores and their hirelings appeared beneath the awnings and displayed an unprecedented concern in trying to resuscitate, with aid of sprinkling-cans, bunches of expiring radishes and young onions. Counsel for the Defense
Was he a true man, or was he merely a professional hireling? General Gordon A Christian Hero
The one a hireling of the brothers Woods, and sold by them in the lump to some other Copperhead financier; the other a pants and overcoats stealing beau. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863
How are mercenary and venal discriminated from hireling? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions
“And, brute that I was,” he thought, “I left her alone in her trouble with only strangers  and hirelings about her, to fight her way through the very Valley of the Shadow of Death.” Wee Wifie
Suppose this hireling who had once or twice shown a rebellious disposition held his own signed confession! The Roof Tree
He hired seventeen thousand Hessians to join the army, paying them liberally for their services, and these hirelings would swell the invading army to startling proportions. From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services
But the senate undertook to have his lands cultivated at the public expense; to maintain his wife and children; and to indemnify him for the loss he had sustained by the robbery of his hireling. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)
You should put this sort of thing into the hands of some arithmetical hireling. The Belovéd Vagabond
The hirelings of the attorney did the rest: they stripped away all the furniture, and everything the law would permit them to remove. Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Bas Rowlett laughed, then with such a confidential manner as he rarely bestowed upon a subordinate, he laid a hand on his hireling's arm. The Roof Tree
"Miserable hirelings, these Hessians!" exclaimed Major Wilkinson, by way of stirring up the soldiers to crave an attack upon them. From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services
Indeed, such excess of covetousness obtains that the public robbing and stealing, and the faithlessness and fraud, of the meanest hirelings, servants and maids everywhere can no longer be restrained. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost
Xenophon thought it right to consult his spiritual guide, Socrates, on the propriety of abandoning his country for hireling service. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
Of this envy, at any rate, we must acquit England: its best youth remains quietly at home, and wins victories in the football field, leaving it to salaried hirelings to shed their blood.—Prof. Gems (?) of German Thought
In that danger surely we should have drifted together more—drifted into a situation where princes and commoners were not, where employers and hirelings did not exist. Hurricane Island
But were these days from the Last Day secure, So that the world might for more years endure, Yet we—like hirelings—should our term expect, And on our day of death each day reflect. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II
Rabbi Judah said, “all the first credit is released, the wages of an hireling is not released.” Hebrew Literature
Thus the bulk of the present House of Commons consists of rent, profit, and interest mongers and their hirelings and hangers-on. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals
As soon as it comes to the sanguinary reality, the English hireling's heart drops into his breeches. Gems (?) of German Thought
They destroyed the dwellings of their oppressors, drove away their hirelings and retainers, and Engelbrecht advanced, with a thousand picked men, to Wadstena, where he found an assembly of bishops and counsellors. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
You talk very big, Little Parisian," he said, "but you will find that in me you deal with a fellow of another temper to those poor hirelings you have been lucky enough to kill. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
"Your hirelings will tamper with his birds and his effects in the night, I know that, Monsieur le Comte," she had said when she demanded this. Cleek, the Master Detective
A hireling ministry will be a feeble, a timid truckling, a time-serving ministry, without faith, endurance, and holy power. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
Whereupon the English hireling sought to keep up his spirits by an answering shout of "No!" Gems (?) of German Thought
Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band, Affright and desolate the land, While peace and liberty lie bleeding? Louis Philippe Makers of History Series
One or two of the most prominent took refuge in the jail—a strong and well-appointed brick building—where, under the protection of their own hirelings in fancied security considered themselves safe. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
The grim spectre of British rule over the American Colonies vanished like the smoke of battle, while hirelings were trembling and the patriot was prince. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier
The remainder of this chapter, beginning with the twelfth verse is a vivid description of the hireling ministry of these days. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
These two terms are first, servant or bond-servant; second, hireling or hired servant; the first indicating involuntary servitude; the second, voluntary servitude for stipulated wages, and a specified time. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
Nay, they were demonstrably absurd; for the assassins to whom Bar�re referred rushed on certain death, a sure proof that they were not hirelings. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
We wound along the wide valley, doing our best to keep the mules going at a respectable pace, and finding that there was quite an art in accomplishing it on a hireling. In the Tail of the Peacock
“Ay, they do say so, the hirelings that foul with their feet the water whence the flock should drink: ‘we are the people, and wisdom shall die with us!’ One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford
They are the hireling shepherds that flee when they see the wolf coming. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
The Brand introduced a girl of twelve as an illustration of her work of rescue among the dreadful hirelings of Rome. The Art of Disappearing
I then held an opinion deemed heterodox—namely, that the improvised soldier is under certain circumstances quite equal to the professional hireling, and that long military drill is not essential to victory. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
Ours were but second-rate hirelings, and we made up our minds to buy later on, when starting on a long expedition. In the Tail of the Peacock
But I am ashamed to say I revised the proofs of the lying thing, and saw it to press, when a hireling of Clement Blaine's had prepared it. The Message
And asks for me, and I his only son Chained here inactive, while the old man pines 82 In that great solitude which hems a thro With none but hirelings round him. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts
She had feared that outside, in the hall, this man might have his hirelings ready to do her mischief, that some dreadful plot had come to a head which meant her ruin. The Art of Disappearing
One more charge along our whole line, and the hireling hordes of oppression fled panic-stricken. Macaria
Depraved, corrupt, and polluted presses exerted themselves to the utmost in the work of slander and detraction; hireling scribblers for worse than hireling presses glutted themselves and made their meals on good men's names. Slavery: What it was, what it has done, what it intends to do Speech of Hon. Cydnor B. Tompkins, of Ohio
Never in her father's mansion, Never by her faithful mother Was she treated as a hireling. Through Finland in Carts
"He was a gentle hireling and a kind; A better fellow should a man not find." The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
And the character of these hireling shepherds goes far to explain the gross superstition of the tune. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
Then, and because of this, the man with understanding eyes will never be deceived by complacent harangues on sacred things from such as Coombs who never lend a luckless neighbor seed-wheat, and oppress the hireling. Lorimer of the Northwest
He gathers his family and hirelings about him, and presently becomes a man of influence in his home state. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American
“Tubbs,” McArthur was saying, as he eyed that person with an interest which he seldom bestowed upon his hireling, “you really have a most remarkable skull.” 'Me--Smith'
As military commander, as a great general, I eulogize the heroism and self-sacrifice of my blind slaves and hirelings that have returned from a successful campaign against a weaker nation. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
He was no longer fighting absolute monarchs with hireling armies, but uprisen nations which were themselves armies instinct with capacity and energy. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
And could anything be plainer than that the fellow for whom the police were searching so eagerly was a hireling of the man De Gex who went in fear of me? The Stretton Street Affair
As I returned from thrusting Nobby into a bedroom, Monsieur Planchet's hireling staggered into the hall, a gigantic basket-trunk poised precariously upon his hunched shoulders. Jonah and Co.
For one remembers how wickedly, how mercilessly, the beauty of life is even now being spoiled by these accursed "hirelings"�and now, as then, "nothing said." Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
And wherever faithful ministers were removed, the people refused to be served by the hirelings who took their places. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Now, at the cry of their country in its distress, they rose up with unappeasable patriotism; not hirelings—the purest and of the best blood in the land. Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America
His crafty unscrupulousness was shown by the manner in which his partner, to whom he owed a big sum, had been cleverly secretly killed by a hireling—a friend of the dead Despujol. The Stretton Street Affair
All this while the Governor and Ruth waited at table, serving the dishes and wine on their knees; for they would suffer no mean hirelings to wait upon their guests. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
"Wouldn't I be a hireling too if—if I had anything to do with it?" The Rose-Garden Husband
He is a wolf and a fox, a hireling and a servant of his belly, and ready to despise and to sacrifice doctrine, Word, faith, Sacrament, churches, and schools. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
An 1806 memorandum to his overseer runs: "Fish is always to be got in Richmond ... and to be dealt out to the hirelings, laborers, workmen, and house servants of all sorts as has been usual." The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia
“I suppose there is some strong motive why they should meet—the more so, now that I have proved to you that the notorious Despujol is a hireling of this wealthy man De Gex.” The Stretton Street Affair
He was only a poor, uneducated man, a hireling, and his life was as nothing compared either with that of her husband or her own. Werwolves
Our people are being abused, insulted, ill-treated and killed by the hirelings of Russian despotism. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906
Everything could not be trusted to one man, and that man a hireling. The Vicar of Bullhampton
Martin and Lucy were old-fashioned, repressed, timid children, with the pathetic outlook of 287 young persons brought up by a melancholy, ancient hireling. Judith of the Cumberlands
That thought caused me to grit my teeth against De Gex and his unholy hirelings. The Stretton Street Affair
You should have been their shepherd; you have fled away like the hireling, and let the wolves in upon them. Vera or, The Nihilists
So," panted the old man, "this is one of your hirelings, is it? Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
If my poems are of that common order which have, as Falstaff says, a natural alacrity in sinking, the praise of hireling and nameless critics would not keep them above the gulf of oblivion.  Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield
"Minion of the hireling law," began the elder Hepburn, running his fingers through his hair and striking an attitude. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers
These are the lures of the "System's" hirelings, the decoy calls of the market tout and the financial tipster whose part it is to mould opinion and urge the people to the shambles. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated
Many unsound horses, generally hirelings, are hammered along out hunting, especially on roads, with most inconsiderate cruelty. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
St. Augustine’s fierce words upon the Good Shepherd and the hireling were in his mind. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
The priests were hirelings; the Pharisees were hypocrites; the ruling classes had set aside their primitive simplicity and purity, and were given up to the voluptuousness and licence of the Empire. John the Baptist
In the end he brought up his hirelings, and the people of the Morjaba city literally fell on the necks of the returned M'gimi. The Keepers of the King's Peace
The officers, trustees, and hirelings of these great companies laughed to scorn my statements and called me a liar and a scoundrel. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated
I once tried to hunt on a hireling which, I soon saw, was not in a fit state to carry me without pain. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
O remarkable shepherd of the flock, and assuredly no hireling! as the novel construction of the Church explains. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
We shall cross swords with the hirelings of a tyrant. The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys
He has sent his hirelings among you with this false report, to put you off your guard, that you may fall an easy prey. The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815
And it was only last night that he had seen Goritz's fellow assassin and hireling. The Secret Witness
Last season, a young man who was hunting with the Pytchley on a hireling came a cropper at the first fence, staked his mount and got a kick in the head. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
All along the right bank of the Upper Niger his bands of hirelings and mercenaries, whom we call Sofas, are constantly raiding for slaves. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason
But the church cannot commit this divine ministry to unsanctified hireling minstrels, without affront to the Spirit of God and serious peril to her own communion with God. The Ministry of the Spirit
Colonna is no less a resort of painters than of pirates; there "The hireling artist plants his paltry desk, And makes degraded nature picturesque." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
It is her policy and her purpose to render our institutions unstable by means of a suborned and venal press, and a band of mercenary, hireling, political and religious monarchical conspirators, parasites and traitors. The Right of American Slavery
She was a hireling of Satan, to catch the souls of men. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus
Fearing, forsooth, that if they be kept in Rome, they may be rescued forcibly, either by the confederates in their plot, or by a hireling rabble. The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2
It might cover the grossest abuses, and no man's privacy would be free from the intrusions of these ministerial hirelings. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
All that sort of thing is delegated to hirelings. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
But as for Moran and his hirelings, that was a different matter! Hidden Gold
One more of the hirelings expected to be paid, the Keeper of State Papers. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography
They preferred to hire mercenaries to undergo their hardships and to fight their battles; but they were not willing to pay their hirelings. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
It is humiliating, but not pathetic, not even when yearning hearts are trying to pretend that their first-born vibrates to them through a stranger's and a hireling's mind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
They were hirelings, and I hated and feared them. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
By England spurn’d, yet plied with England’s gold, Till every scoundrel’s stock of oaths was sold; Then hither sent by hirelings vile as they, To pass for sterling truth in open day. The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers
He was not inviting more of that brazen hostility that characterized the operations of Fogg and his hirelings. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
Besides, the countess seldom addressed a "hireling," except to utter a command or a rebuke. Fairy Fingers A Novel
To accomplish this, he had raised an army and called in the help of Grecian hirelings. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
A few years ago efforts were made to prove that the Methodist ministers were the "salaried hirelings" of a foreign republican power. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
"What is meant by a 'hireling'?" was asked of a class in a day-school. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
For he, Boyd Mayo, captain of her father's yacht, a hireling, had just paid the same insulting courtship to Alma Marston that a sailor would proffer to an ogling girl on the street. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
You have a hundred hireling chemists, all of them with a string of degrees, at your service. Greener Than You Think
In all modern periods of this country, have not the writers on one side been regularly called hirelings, and on the other patriots? The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
Their service will require a hundred thieving hirelings whose very names you cannot know. The Root of Evil
"You are a hireling," responded a little fellow; "you are hired to teach us." Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
“Not so,” was Bruno’s answer, as he passed on: “it is the hireling, not the shepherd, that fleeth from the wolf, and leaveth the sheep to be scattered.” Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century
Perchance these ladies are accompanied by pure-minded daughters, all unthinking of the frightful contamination of the numbers of so-called "ladies of fashion"—habitués and hirelings, decoys simply in the pay of the gambling propriétaire. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
Local police and military officials had secret orders to abstain from interference with the looting and murdering of Jews or "their hirelings." The Melting-Pot
"First, because I will not become the hireling of a corporation, to say nothing of this particular one headed by Mr. Bivens." The Root of Evil
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