wark
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He paused a moment, then said, “Now, I tell you, we got much wark to do today.”
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
I heard him saying very gently, “B’gettin’ back to wark, my own self.”
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
“Now, dat is a lot o’ wark, Phill-eep, to be true.”
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
“Ye’ve not been used to sarvant’s wark, I see by your hands,” she remarked.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
It's dreich wark this," quo he; "I kenna, haith, Gin I'd best gang or rin—I'se try them baith.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick
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