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  • The farm-work is not seen as drudgery—teams of men work together and crack jokes and whistle in their secret whistle-language to those working on neighboring farms.

    An Alaskan in Tanzania......................And on to Honduras Gail 2008

  • The farm-work is not seen as drudgery—teams of men work together and crack jokes and whistle in their secret whistle-language to those working on neighboring farms.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Gail 2008

  • Miss Bea was a stalwart, corn-colored, laughing young woman, and she was bored by farm-work.

    Main Street 2004

  • He did not care for retired people — as he said to the cob every evening — he liked to see farm-work going on, or at any rate to hear all about it, and to listen to horses who had worked hard, and could scarcely speak, for chewing, about the great quantity they had turned of earth, and how they had answered very bad words with a bow.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • “I should like it — I should like it better than farm-work.”

    Adam Bede 2004

  • It was now high time to work very hard; both to make up for the farm-work lost during the months of frost and snow, and also to be ready for a great and vicious attack from the Doones, who would burn us in our beds at the earliest opportunity.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • We talked for a bit about the farm-work — Nils thought of nothing else.

    A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

  • She pictured herself at the end of the summer, tanned and lean from farm-work, and she smiled.

    Moon Dance Mariah Stewart 1999

  • She pictured herself at the end of the summer, tanned and lean from farm-work, and she smiled.

    Moon Dance Mariah Stewart 1999

  • Harriet grinned and ran off swiftly to join her brother in the farm-work that was their task.

    Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

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