quitting-time

Instead, watch your co-workers and take your quitting-time cue from them.

Day One—Now What? 2008

He was surprised at seeing them thus early, for it wanted nearly an hour of quitting-time.

Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe

Then he knew that it was really quitting-time, and went to work, as quickly as his inexperience would allow, to rub Harry down, water and feed him, and make him comfortable for the night.

Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe

It was agreed that the hour for the committee's visit to the superintendent should be quitting-time on the morrow.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

Once in a while, touring, I have come across one of our branch establishments and have stopped my car to see the men come out of the buildings at quitting-time.

The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

He tried to feel that it was as simple as it sounded, but he wondered if back of many of those brief letters of resignation that came at quitting-time there was the hurt, the desolation, that there was no use denying to himself was back of his.

Lifted Masks; stories Susan Glaspell 1915

"If they'll only keep at it and beat up some of our boys at quitting-time the whole gang will be here in the morning."

The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

The long morning and the longer afternoon wore away while the whistle blew for quitting-time.

The Apostate 1906

` ` It's quitting-time, grandfather, '' she called, gently, from the doorway behind him.

The Conquest of Canaan 1905

Just to encourage them, Danny became insolent, as he had already become inattentive; he told the manager what he would do and what he would not do, and positively declined to deliver a message that would carry his work a few minutes beyond quitting-time.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Various 1887