Example Sentences

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We have been kicking our heels so long while everyone else has been slaving away at the front, that one longs to be doing something tangible and active.

From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur

Here my wife has been slaving over a red-hot stove cooking grub for you hoboes for years and the first bum that forgets and leaves his purse has eight hundred dollars–cash!

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane