Some superstitious old carpenters, now, would be tied up in the rigging, ere they would do the
job. But I'm made of knotty Aroostook hemlock; I don't budge.
I sought odd
jobs. I worked days, and half-days, at anything I could get.
Jurgis asked them what they meant by their rights, a question in which he was quite sincere, for he had not any idea of any rights that he had, except the right to hunt for a
job, and do as he was told when he got it.
So many men in Oakland were out on strike, or were locked out, or were unable to work because of the dependence of their trades on the other tied-up trade's, that odd
jobs at common labor were hard to obtain.
I will say that the
job is yours when I smash Hanson.
And that's what he meant by saying I'd done the gladdest
job of all--to-day.
'It's not for want of looking after
jobs, I am sure,' said Mrs Plornish, lifting up her eyebrows, and searching for a solution of the problem between the bars of the grate; 'nor yet for want of working at them when they are to be got.
"I doubt whether you'll get
Job Rowsell to shift before mid-day.
'I know that,' said
Job Trotter, turning upon his companion a countenance of deep contrition, and groaning slightly, 'I know that, and that's what it is that preys upon my mind.
"I suppose she WAS trying," admitted Miss Cornelia reluctantly, "but that didn't justify what
Job said when she died.
This was the sort of experience we
job horses often came in for.
He was only twelve, but that winter he had got the
job of sweeping out the Norwegian church and making the fire in it every Sunday morning.