head-work

On this head-work about thirty river-drivers take up their position to direct the course of the boom.

Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

You mis-manager -- the < i > head-work you boasted of is boneheadwork!

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

And here comes in an element not before mentioned, which is called strategy, or "head-work."

Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward

The one was a grave, solemn old North-Sea whaler with one eye, who professed to look down with contempt upon all raw head-work, on navigation compared with seamanship, and fiction against fact.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

Championship baseball contest, the game itself is shoved into such insignificance that it can be briefly chronicled by recording the events that led up to T. Haviland Hicks, Jr. 's, self-prophesied "head-work."

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

They read and answered my questions on Scripture better, and sought after the library books with more interest, than any in the other villages; but it was all head-work, no heart; all intellect, no love.

God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe

Here, now, by a little head-work, are runners on third and second, whereas, an attempt to smash the ball, trusting to luck as to where it should go, might have resulted in a double play or at least one man out and no advantage gained.

Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward

Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook" the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of this labor of head-work, to have a wonderful easy life of it.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

Gilham, our third lieutenant, a manly, blue-eyed sailor and fond of his profession, but no bookworm and bad at head-work; Mr Cheffinch, or

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

It was not alone his bravery in action which won him the medal, but his wonderful head-work, inspirational always, and his American manhood while a prisoner in German camps, which kept his fellow prisoners together, secured for them respect and standing.

Sergeant Hallyburton, the First American Soldier Captured in the World War 1923