workworn

In this spirit I spoke at Populist picnics, standing beneath great oaks, surrounded by men and women, workworn like my own father and mother, shadowed by the same cloud of dismay.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Instead, all he could think was that, as workworn and weary as both the priests had seemed, there had also been something about them that made his cleverness seem not quite as clever as he'd thought it was.

Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

Instead, all he could think was that, as workworn and weary as both the priests had seemed, there had also been something about them that made his cleverness seem not quite as clever as he'd thought it was.

Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

She passed the back of a workworn hand over her brow worriedly.

Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979

He took her hand, so cruelly seamed and workworn; his was white and plump and well-kept.

The Second Chance 1910

He took her hand, so cruelly seamed and workworn; his was white and plump and well-kept.

The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912

The woman, smiling charmingly, reached out a brown and shapely hand, rather workworn, which the curé shook, and proceeded to make her known to the Prince.

The Guests Of Hercules M. Leone Bracker 1901

Slowly rubbing his workworn hands, he made us a landlord's bow as listless and as perfunctory as ever I have seen in any ordinary.

The Hidden Children 1899

Then after a space came a figure, pathetic, arresting, moving -- a woman, obviously a workman's wife, of middle age, grey, workworn, and carrying a babe of a few months in her arms, marched alone.

To Him That Hath: a Tale of the West of Today Ralph Connor 1898

Dylks demanded of the slight, workworn figure before him.

The Leatherwood God William Dean Howells 1878