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  • She strove with all her might to project her human thoughts into the hireling's mind, spreading out the whole story as best she could.

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • Some who are foremost in the amount of service may also be most free from the self-righteous spirit, and some who have laboured least may also receive least if they do their little under the influence of a hireling's selfishness.

    The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

  • So _a hireling's year_ signifies an entire year without abatement.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • He who has the bondsman's mind, and works only for the hireling's pay, will only get what he works for.

    Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander

  • It is humiliating, but not pathetic, not even when yearning hearts are trying to pretend that their first-born vibrates to them through a stranger's and a hireling's mind.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • This we infer from the fact, that "a hireling's day," was a sort of proverbial phrase, meaning a _full_ day.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • This we infer from the fact, that "a hireling's day," was a sort of proverbial phrase, meaning a _full_ day.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • So _a hireling's year_ signifies an entire year without abatement.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Later, when Brann again accumulated the necessary funds to permit him to throw off the hireling's yoke, he asked for and received back from O. Henry the legal right to the title of his own paper.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • As soon as it comes to the sanguinary reality, the English hireling's heart drops into his breeches.

    Gems (?) of German Thought William Archer 1890

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