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Sentences starting with labor

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. [7]
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. [7]
Labor was beautifully subdivided in this lady's household. [6]
Labor in loneliness is irksome. [5]
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn. [7]
Labor is like any other commodity in the market-increase the demand for it and you increase the price of it. [7]

Sentences ending with labor

Time and patience would be pretty sure to bring out new developments, and physicians, of all men in the world, know how to wait as well as how to labor. [6]
But even if we knew the simplified form for every word in the language, the phonographic alphabet would still beat the Simplified Speller "hands down" in the important matter of economy of labor. [5]
On 12th, I was called to Mrs. S., in labor. [3]
I am quite unable to guess why there should be a limit at all to the possession of the product of a man's labor. [5]
You are soon to enter into relations with the public, to expend your skill and knowledge for its benefit, and find your support in the rewards of your labor. [3]
She felt as though she, and all Nature with her, had just crossed the threshold of a new day, bidding her to fresh life and labor. [10]
He had earned them all by the most faithful and patient labor. [6]
In providing for the return of fugitives they say "persons held to service or labor. [7]
The publisher and the poet talked in low tones, as if on business of their own, and watched him as he returned to his labor. [6]
It was not the least courageous act of his life, that, smarting under a fresh wound, tired and unhappy, he set his face immediately towards the accomplishment of fresh literary labor. [6]

Short sentences using labor

Therefore I labor. [5]

Sentences containing labor two or more times

This patient remained two days in the expectation that labor would come on, when she returned home and was then suddenly taken in labor and delivered before she could set out for the hospital. [3]
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. [7]
Some men assume that there is necessary connection between capital and labor, and that connection draws within it the whole of the labor of the community. [7]
It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. [7]
You have brought owned labor with it, to compete with your own labor, to underwork you, and to degrade you! [7]
A few men own capital, and that few avoid labor themselves, and, with their capital, hire or buy another few to labor for them. [7]
A few men own capital, and that few avoid labor themselves, and with their capital hire or buy another few to labor for them. [7]
This is illustrated in factories where skilled labor is handed down and fixed in the same families, that is, where the same kind of labor is continued from one generation to another. [4]
It is not forgotten that a considerable number of persons mingle their own labor with capital; that is, they labor with their own hands, and also buy or hire others to labor for them, but this is only a mixed and not a distinct class. [7]
It is not forgotten that a considerable number of persons mingle their own labor with capital; that is, they labor with their own hands and also buy or hire others to labor for them; but this is only a mixed and not a distinct class. [7]

More example sentences with the word labor in them

I have told you that I have just finished a long memoir, and that it has cost me no little labor to overcome some of its difficulties,--if I have overcome them, which others must decide. [6]
Night and day you can find him pegging away at Smith, panting with his labor, sleeves rolled up, countenance all alive with enjoyment. [5]
There is enough yet before us requiring all loyal men and patriots to perform their share of the labor and follow the example of the modest General at the head of our armies, and sink all personal consideration for the sake of the country. [7]
However, he has written to a New York publisher, and if we are offered a bargain that will pay for a month's labor we will go to work and prepare the volume for the press. [5]
She had carefully woven the cloak with her own hands, and that, she cried, was the way her labor was valued! [10]
The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
This common labor would be a sort of bond between them, a bond of charity purified from all personal alloy. [4]
A second term would be a great honor and a great labor, which, together, perhaps I would not decline if tendered. [7]
The United American Workers (who were half foreigners by birth) passed resolutions denouncing Henderson for employing foreign pauper labor, and organized more than one strike while the house was building. [4]
Dinner is serious work, for he sweats at it as much as at his labor, and he is a terrible fastener on a piece of beef. [4]
Lecturing was hard work, but he was under the "base necessity," as he called it, of constant labor, writing in summer, speaking everywhere east and west in the trying and dangerous winter season. [6]
Sunset came, bringing with the end of her labor a patient calmness and power to wait that had not been hers earlier in the day. [13]
In twenty-one years, with all my time at my free disposal I have written and completed only eleven books, whereas with half the labor that a journalist does I could have written sixty in that time. [5]
The detail labor will, of course, have to be done by others; but I will be greatly obliged if you will give it such general supervision as you can find consistent with your more strictly military duties. [7]
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. [7]
But some day when he is in a corner with orders, and his rivals are competing for the market, and labor is scarce, his men strike on him. [4]
The Hebrews, who were settled in immense numbers in the province of Goshen, and whom Ani had attached to his cause by remitting their task-work, were now driven to labor at the palaces and fortifications which Rameses had begun to build. [10]
Many of them were "gentlemen" adventurers, turbulent spirits, who would not work, who were much better fitted for piratical maraudings than the labor of founding a state. [4]
Nevertheless it is well-known that I have given up to the town a larger measure of time and labor and moneys than many a town-mayor and captain of watch. [10]
Their long, flowing, wavy hair, and an atmosphere of ideality which enveloped them both, might have inclined one to the latter supposition; while the form of their brows, indicating deep thought and severe mental labor, and their slightly stooping shoulders, would have suggested the former. [10]
To do either was plainly the labor of months; for we could blast and bore only a few feet a day--some five or six. [5]
One of these was joining a Knights of Labor lodge. [4]
Now at length was come his chance to be of use in life,--to dedicate the labor of his hands and of his brains to Abraham Lincoln uncouth prophet of the West. [9]
He lowered his voice and went on: "I did not ask whether you wished for peace or war--I know that every Persian prefers the labor of war to an inglorious idleness--but I wished to know what answer you would give the Massagetan warriors. [10]
Next I entered upon an affluent career in Virginia City, and by a judicious investment of labor and the capital of friends, became the owner of about all the worthless wild cat mines there were in that part of the country. [5]
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. [2]
These notes, prepared under the supervision of proper officers, being uniform in appearance and security and convertible always into coin, would at once protect labor against the evils of a vicious currency and facilitate commerce by cheap and safe exchanges. [7]
It made me tug and pant and perspire; and still, labor as I might, the machine came almost to a standstill every little while. [5]
His delineations are true and life-like, because they are not mere compositions written to please the ear, but are really taken from the facts and traits preserved in those authentic records to which he has devoted the labor of many years. [6]
They were walking towards Fourth Avenue one evening--the priest could not resist the impulse to accompany her a little way towards her home--after a day of unusual labor and anxiety. [4]
Frequently their sparring took the form of a serious discussion, which served a double purpose; first their minds, accustomed to serious thought, found exercise in spite of the murderous pressure of the burden of forced labor, and secondly, they were supposed really to be enemies. [10]
But in regard to the Legislature, we, the Republicans, labor under some disadvantages. [7]
He is compelled to serve the lord of the land every year with so much labor of his hands. [9]
Then we turn to page 20 of the Autobiography and happen upon this passage, and that hasty suspicion stands rebuked: "I gained book-knowledge with far less labor than is usually requisite. [5]
We have only to look over the lists of the Faculties and teachers of our Universities to see the subdivision of labor carried out as never before. [6]
He went on to his platform at eight in the morning, and left it at twelve at night, sixteen hours of continuous labor every day in the week. [4]
I now refused to attend any labor, and did not till April 21st, when, having thoroughly cleansed myself, I resumed my practice, and had no more puerperal fever. [3]
With deportation, even to a limited extent, enhanced wages to white labor is mathematically certain. [7]
In twice a thousand years shall the unholy invention of man labor at odds to beget the fellow to this majestic lie! [5]
I have long thought it would be to our advantage to produce any necessary article at home which can be made of as good quality and with as little labor at home as abroad, at least by the difference of the carrying from abroad. [7]
The cost of this structure would soon be recouped by the saving in labor, and with perfect certainty, if only the transport-ships were laden at Clysma with a profitable return freight of Alexandrian manufactures, instead of returning empty as they had hitherto done. [10]
Did you ever think, Robert," he added, "that this breathing of ours is a labor, and that we have to work every second to keep ourselves alive? [11]
Ten pages of these sky-scrapers of yours would pay me only about three hundred dollars; in my simplified vocabulary the same space and the same labor would pay me eight hundred and forty dollars. [5]
We have discovered the sure path for all intellectual labor, the true scientific method; and an observant study of things as they are, succeeds better with us than it did with our predecessors. [10]
Everywhere he saw the stewards' accounts, according to which the serfs' manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue coats. [2]
The mines in the Sinai peninsula, where more convict labor was needed, were the goal of these unfortunate men. [10]
On other estates the serfs' compulsory labor was commuted for a quitrent. [2]
To the penman, the saving in labor is insignificant. [5]
Fulkerson cackled over the ruin: "I wonder if all Moffitt will look that way after labor and capital have fought it out together. [8]
The descent of the mountain was a labor of only four minutes. [5]
For short distances the lowest poverty, the hardest pressed labor, must walk; but March never entered a car without encountering some interesting shape of shabby adversity, which was almost always adversity of foreign birth. [8]
I was cleaning the long rifle,--a labor I loved,--when suddenly I looked up, startled to see a man standing in front of me. [9]
This table-top cost the labor of one man for ten long years, so they said, and it was for sale for thirty-five thousand dollars. [5]
After much labor the horses and mules were securely placed on the flat. [5]
In offering you the fruit of my garden, which has been gathered from week to week, without much reference to the progress of the crops or the drought, I desire to acknowledge an influence which has lent half the charm to my labor. [4]
I therefore make the following statement of the cost and income of my potato-crop, a part of it estimated in connection with other garden labor. [4]
I dreamed of the fall of the Caesars, and of a great Greek Empire risen from the ruins, powerful and brilliant under the special protection of the gods of Olympus; and each one of us must labor to bring about the realization of this dream. [10]
As to conducting the draft by townships, I find it would require such a waste of labor already done, and such an additional amount of it, and such a loss of time, as to make it, I fear, inadmissible. [7]
The opportunity and the disposition to labor make the basis of all our civilization. [4]
The assertion of the dignity of man and of labor is, we imagine, the sum and substance of the equality and communism of the New Testament. [4]
The history of the colony all this spring of 1608 is one of labor and discontent, of constant annoyance from the Indians, and expectations of attacks. [4]
Champagny called upon the citizens to help themselves, and used their labor in throwing up a wall of defence in the open part of the city, which was most dangerously threatened by the citadel. [10]
In such case the carrying is demonstrably a dead loss of labor. [7]
I don't know that you must break any bones in a poet's mechanism before his thought can dance in rhythm, but read your Milton and see what training, what patient labor, it took before he could shape our common speech into his majestic harmonies. [6]
It happened, however, that when the blocks were knocked away the big ship refused to budge, and no amount of labor could move her an inch. [5]
It is insisted that their presence would injure and displace white labor and white laborers. [7]
One class sees that the other has lighter or at least different labor, opportunities of travel, a more liberal supply of the luxuries of life, a higher enjoyment and a keener relish of the beautiful, the immaterial. [4]
Because I know that his is the only labor that is likely to endure. [6]
So it was that he had passed his life in the patient mechanical labor of instruction, leaving too many of his instincts and faculties in abeyance. [6]
If the labor that has been expended here, only to erect platforms for the soil to rest on, had been given to our country, it would have built half a dozen Pacific railways, and cut a canal through the Isthmus. [4]
It was this that had impelled her to get a medical education, which she obtained by hard labor and self-denial. [4]
Once only during that early period was his labor interrupted for any considerable length of time. [4]
The labor of ten years was at last finished. [6]
Let it be such that the labor and difficulty of evading it could only be justified in cases of greatest necessity. [7]
There must be some way of attaining the end of cultivation without much labor. [4]
Round shoulders,--stooping over some minute labor, I suppose. [6]
No, no thanks--I shall be glad to do it--it will be a labor of love. [5]
This was a severe labor, and followed by unequivocal puerperal fever, or peritonitis. [3]
O misery of semi-provincial fashionable life, where wealth is at its wit's end to avoid being tired of an existence which has all the labor of keeping up appearances, without the piquant profligacy which saves it at least from being utterly vapid! [6]
And when labor sees what it is that is really most to be valued, its discontent will be of a nobler kind. [4]
The old clergyman seemed to have renewed his youth since the misfortune of his colleague had incapacitated him from labor. [6]
Myrtle's only desire seemed to be to labor in some way to help the soldiers and their families. [6]
I do not see why a conspiracy against labor is not as illegal as a conspiracy against capital. [4]
Hoping you will see a change for the better and begin to reap the fruit of your long and hard labor. [5]
It was the same face he had seen before, there was the same general expression of refined, inner, spiritual labor, but now it was quite differently lit up. [2]
It is a rule which will apply to food, exercise, labor, sleep, and, in short, to every part of life. [6]
I figured it right down to European prices,--seventeen cents a day for unskilled labor. [4]
And let us remember that our duties to our brethren do not cease when they become unable to share our toils, or leave behind them in want and woe those whom their labor had supported. [3]
Their parched throats refused to sing in the noontide of their labor. [10]
I need not refer to the case lately read before this Society, in which a physician went, soon after performing an autopsy of a case of puerperal fever, to a woman in labor, who was seized with the same disease and perished. [3]
He is a red-mouthed labor agitator. [8]
Friends tried to reconcile them, but had their labor for their pains. [5]
There is no reason why an author should pay for the privilege of a long life by the loss of his copyrights, and that his old age should be embittered by poverty because he cannot have the results of the labor of his vigorous years. [4]
He had scarcely reached home when he was summoned to attend a young lady in labor. [3]
I made a rapid estimate of the cost of the seed, the interest of the ground, the price of labor, the value of the bushes, the anxiety of weeks of watchfulness. [4]
When Publius had quitted the palace and hurried back to his tent, he felt like a journeyman returning from a hard day's labor, or a man acquitted from a serious charge; like one who had lost his way, and has found the right road again. [10]
Neither mines, forests, quarries, water-ways, nor textile fabrics can be handled to best advantage without scientific knowledge and skilled labor. [4]
The labor he put upon the editing of this collection occupied him a great deal of the time from 1895 to 1898. [4]
Thomas Connor, a private in the First Veteran New York Cavalry, is now imprisoned at hard labor for desertion. [7]
On social and political grounds the continuance of the Queensland Kanaka Labor Traffic must be a barrier to the true federation of the Australian colonies. [5]

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