 I was in the quarry cutting the blocks from the rock when the tide was out ; and when the tide was in, I went and scutched with some of the hewers,— chiefly with my friend Alick. One day, when we had been reading in the newspapers a great deal about...  The Autobiography of a Working Man - 75 ページAlexander Somerville, One who has whistled at the plough 著 - 1848 - 511 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Alexander Somerville - 1848 - 552 ページ
...carry them in carts, to man the ships of war. Joseph replied that he was not afraid of war ; if the king wanted men that minute, he would go on board...struck a labourer with the sharp edge of it over the shoulders. Throwing down my pick, I turned round and told him that so long as 1 was about the works... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - 1860 - 332 ページ
...intelligent friend, Alexander Forsyth, ' Aliek,' as he was familiarly called. One day, when we had read in the newspapers a great deal about the tyranny of the Tories, the tyranny and haughty pride of the aristocracy in general, and some masons had, as usual, been loud... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1862 - 532 ページ
...the working man took place : — " A number of masons were hewing the blocks of atone, and each bewer had a labourer allotted to him to do the rougher work...struck a labourer with the sharp edge of it over the shoulders. Throwing down my pick, I turned round and told him that, so long as T was about the works,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 508 ページ
...short pick — technically, to * scutch ' it. The masons were intolerable tyrants to their laborers. I was in the quarry cutting the blocks from the rock...took up a long wooden straight-edge, and struck a laborer with the sharp edge of it over the shoulders. Throwing down my pick, I turned round and told... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 516 ページ
...short pick — technically, to ' scutch ' it. The masons were intolerable tyrants to their laborers. I was in the quarry cutting the blocks from the rock...took up a long wooden straight-edge, and struck a laborer with the sharp edge of it over the shoulders. Throwing down my pick, I turned round and told... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie - 1865 - 288 ページ
...at a quarry on the Berwick coast, and the time was during the agitation for the Keforin Bill:— " One day, when we had been reading in the newspapers...struck a labourer with the sharp edge of it over the shoulders. Throwing down my pick, I turned round and told him that so long as I was about the works... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie - 1865 - 300 ページ
...quarry on the Berwick coast, and the time was during the agitation for the Eeform Bill : — • " One day, when we had been reading in the newspapers...tyranny of the aristocracy in general, and some of the L ewers had been, as usual, wordy and loud in denouncing all tyrants, and exclaiming, ' Down with them... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1869 - 602 ページ
...when the tide was in, I went and scutched with some of the hewers, — chiefly with my friend Alack. One day, when we had been reading in the newspapers...struck a labourer with the sharp edge of it over the shoulders. Throwing down my pick, I turned round and told him that, so long as I was about the works,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1872 - 516 ページ
...to do the rougher work upon the stone with a short pick,— technically, to ' scutch' it. The maaons were intolerable tyrants to their labourers. I was...tyrants, and exclaiming, ' Down with them for ever 1' one of them took up a long wooden straight-edge, and struck a labourer with the sharp edge of it... | |
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