"Chore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... house afterward to see if there was any other little chore he could do for the old couple before going on ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... elation did not last long. To guide a team for a few minutes as an experiment was one thing—to plow all day like a hired hand was another. It was not a chore, it was a job. It meant moving to and fro hour after hour, day after day, with no one to talk to but the horses. It meant trudging eight or nine miles in the forenoon and as many more in the afternoon, with less than an hour off at noon. ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... Yea, this: I gently swing the door Here, of my fane—no soul to wis - And cross the patterned floor To the rood-screen That stands between The nave and inner chore. ...
— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy
... "for while Martha is away, we can steal into the milk cellar and lick the cream off the pans. Of course in the morning she will wonder why old Bess, the red cow, did not give as rich milk as usual. But she will think that the chore boy did not feed her enough bran, for she would never suspect Tabby, her pet, of doing such ...
— Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier • Frances Trego Montgomery
... little before nine Jerry had a broom in his hand. His orders were to sweep off the front steps. He went at it in a very leisurely manner. The sooner he finished the sooner his mother might give him some other chore to do. Even though Laura, the pleasant three-times-a-week maid, did most of the cleaning, Mrs. Martin believed her children should have a few household chores. Cathy, Jerry's twin sister, had to do the breakfast dishes on Saturdays, and even five-year-old ...
— Jerry's Charge Account • Hazel Hutchins Wilson
... as well as the regular rounds of the chore-boy Jim with his water-yoke upon his shoulders, carrying either water for the home or slop for the pigs, were sights that were common and in many cases interesting to Edwin. But from them he could learn practically nothing of the things that he would ...
— The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher • Isabel C. Byrum
... transferred down to the southern division, and made night operator at Mankato. This was really about the best position I had yet struck: good hours, plenty of work and a fine office to do it in, and eighty dollars a month. The agent and day man were both fine fellows, and there was no chore work around the station—a baggage smasher did that. The despatchers up in "DS" office were pleasant to work with and as competent a lot of men as ever touched a key. I had never met any of them when I first took the office, though of course I soon knew ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... next day they must begin. As soon as every chore was done they went to the woods ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... I seen," continued the little man, glancing impressively at his attentive audience. "I seen Cap'n Wegg livin' without workin', fer he never lifted a hand to do even a chore. I seen him jest settin' 'round an' smokin' his pipe an' a glowerin' like a devil on ev'ryone thet come near. Say, once he ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne
... to a chore lad slouching by, "jump for that cook house and fetch a cup of coffee, ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
... or compacted subsoil is easily opened with a spading fork or a very sharp common shovel. After normal rotary tilling, either tool can fairly easily be wiggled 12 inches into the earth and small bites of plowpan loosened. Once this laborious chore is accomplished the first time, deep tillage will be far easier. In fact, it becomes so easy that I've been looking for a custom-made fork with ...
— Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway • Steve Solomon
... mention the librarians who are so engaged in making out triple cards and bibliographies and fitting titles to vague recollections that they have no time left to read. Furthermore, if reviewing is a chore at worst, and at best a desire to gratify a craving for the unappeasable, editing reviews is still more chorelike, and seeking the unobtainable—a good review for every good book—is quite as ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby |
