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  • For a deep analysis of Holman Hunt's Hireling Shepherd, check out the Victorian Web Book and the Wikipedia entry about the painting.

    Selectivity James Gurney 2008

  • For a deep analysis of Holman Hunt's Hireling Shepherd, check out the Victorian Web Book and the Wikipedia entry about the painting.

    Archive 2008-06-01 James Gurney 2008

  • Hireling Liar,” said I, standing in the darkness, outside even his faint glow of traveled culture ...

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • Hireling Liar,” I muttered, for was not he also part of the system, part of the scheme of robbery that made wages serfs of Parload and me? — though his share in the proceedings was certainly small.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • Hireling preachers are pleading for their respective denominations, and while many honest children of God are dissatisfied with this sad state of affairs, they are taught from the pulpit that God has made these divisions and it is the duty of every Christian to join and support them.

    Sanctification J. W. Byers

  • Hireling Author of a late scandalous Libel, intituled,

    A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey

  • Parties in this Kingdom, in the same Light you do, and that instead of ever keeping in View the great Interests of _Ireland_, Men bawl out their Country! their Country! and mean nothing but themselves, advancing their Leaders, and thereby securing proper Emoluments, for every little Slave and Hireling that join with them.

    A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Anonymous

  • "Hireling Shepherd," and Whistler's "Battersea Bridge" were the best -- might have been delightful had he learned to select; but at the present stage in his development he hated rejecting anything as long as it reached a certain standard.

    The Wooden Horse Hugh Walpole 1912

  • "Hireling Liar," I muttered, for was not he also part of the system, part of the scheme of robbery that made wages serfs of Parload and me?

    In the Days of the Comet 1906

  • "Hireling Liar," said I, standing in the darkness, outside even his faint glow of traveled culture ...

    In the Days of the Comet 1906

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