When the work became too tedious, I felt like a hireling because I really did need the paycheck. From LearnThat.org.
But those are hirelings that love the wages more than the work, and set their hearts upon that, as the hireling is said to do, Deut. xxiv. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Armenian (Timothy); Joseph (Epaphroditus); Zachary, who was rejected by many and called a hireling; Baanes; Sergius (Tychicus). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
"What is meant by a 'hireling'?" was asked of a class in a day-school. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
After his death his son Zachary (the "hireling") and his son-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
"hireling," except to utter a command or a rebuke. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference
The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Nor sit, as a hireling, applauding an actor's grimace. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
With all the hireling chivalry of Guelders and Almayne. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Thus it stands shut against the hireling, open to the worker. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Miserable hireling! give us solitude and meditation, not beer!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
The King sent over hireling hosts -- the Briton, Hessian, Scot. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
'No; all the other servants fleeing like the hireling, but our own. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
While Chatham spoke with earnest tongue against the hireling throng. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
I was transformed into a mudsill and Northern hireling last spring. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Girondists, what traitor of the Bourbons, what hireling of the gold of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
Some hireling, some enemy of the shepherd, drove it far away from the fold. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Only a soldier of fortune or a hireling can be a stranger to such feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
"You are a hireling," responded a little fellow; "you are hired to teach us.". From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
I was hireling to a rich farmer, and drove his plough -- four oxen there were. From Wordnik.com. [Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French] Reference
Poor fool, "(the scoffer cries;)" Gull'd by the despot's hireling lie, with lore. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 50: John The Challoner Revision] Reference
'Miss Rose declined alliance with a' Yankee hireling, 'and was married last October.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Doubtless some hireling, who will leave when all my means of recompense are exhausted!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
He is the miserable hireling of an ungrateful country, from his cradle to his grave, in fact. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
The hireling scamps his work: the lover is always adding another touch, and is never satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
On the fourth day a Swiss hireling deserted to the enemy and betrayed the weakness of the garrison. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
And the Myrmidon was certainly just as mortal as Forrester himself, or any other hireling of the Gods. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
The hireling goes about his work with heavy and reluctant feet: the lover sings and dances at his toil. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
"They roll, my dear," she asserted, when Ann vainly tried to tempt her into giving the hireling a chance. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Or even suppose the hireling servant, glutted with prosperity, should tip off his cronies or give the whole scheme away out of spite?. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
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