His appearance has not altered in the least, and yet every day he puts in twenty-four hours of work.
— from Stories and Letters from the Trenches by Various

“The poorest laborer on the farm can have the pleasure of looking at you every day,” continued his lordship passionately.
— from Short Cruises by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

y t the marchants should have y e halfe of mens houses and lands at y e dividente; and that persons should be deprived of y e 2. days in a weeke agreed upon, yea every momente of time for their owne perticuler; by reason wherof we cannot conceive why any should carie servants for their own help and comfort; for that we can require no more [62] of them then all men one of another.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

"I wears it because I've got a catarrh, which I ketched by doing my duty in all weathers, long afore you ever dipped your fingers in pitch, you lazy son of a gun."
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Various

i. p. 238), ‘El emporio de las ciencias;’ and Ximenez ( Vida de Ribera , p. 6), ‘Salamanca, cathedra universal de las artes, y emporio de todas ciencias.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle