labor of

• “Thus poor Le Maitre lost the fruit of his talents, the labor of his youth, and principal dependence for the support of old age.”

  The Confessions of J J Rousseau

• “The whole clan was concerned about the early labor of Goov's mate.”

  The Clan of the Cave Bear

• “The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.”

  English Traits (1856)

• “The present revision of “The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln” was the last literary labor of its author.”

  The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

• “It is the custom of most writers upon this subject to refer, like Legros,46 Goodell, Ploss, and others, to the labor of Latona, whom Homer, in his hymn to Apollo, represents as being delivered whilst kneeling upon the soft meadow, clasping a palm tree.”

  Labor Among Primitive Peoples

• “He has had extensive experience as Agency physician, having been associated with different tribes of Indians in different localities, and he does not think that climate has anything to do with the labor of the parturient woman.”

  Labor Among Primitive Peoples

• “So the Mercantilist writers looked on the cheap agricultural and industrial labor of England and gravely nodded approval.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Worldly Philosophers

• “It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.”

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

• “They burned fuel oil, which permitted greater steaming endurance and saved their crews the exhausting labor of hand coaling and stoking.”

  Castles of Steel

• “I know the language of that trade, that capricious trade, that fascinating buried-treasure trade, and can catch any writer who tries to use it without having learned it by the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands.”

  Is Shakespeare Dead?

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