My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected they will have conferred a favor upon me,... for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then louder cry'd the Clerk Colvill, O sairer, sairer akes my head;... And sairer, sairer ever will, The maiden crys, 'till you be dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just across the Green from the post office is the county jail, seldom occupied except by some backwoodsman who has been intemperat...e; the courthouse is under the same roof. The dog warden usually basks in the sunlight near the harness store or the post office, his golden badge polished bright.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When offense occurred, Slaughter took the trail, and seldom returned with a live prisoner. Usually he reported that he had chased ...the suspect "clean out of the county"; these suspects never reappeared in Tombstone--or anywhere else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what... from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the... next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A clerk ther was of Oxenford also That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.... As leene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »