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"What a sublime piece of workmanship," he said, "but why aren't you playing it?"
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In order to see it to perfection, some elves spent their lives on a single piece of work -- nearly a millennium
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In consequence of better machinery, of greater dexterity, and of a more proper division and distribution of work, all of which are the natural effects of improvement, a much smaller quantity of labour becomes requisite for executing any particular piece of work ; and though, in consequence of the flourishing circumstances of the society, the real price of labour should rise very considerably, yet the great diminution of the quantity will generally much more than compensate the greatest rise which can happen in the price
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What a piece of work
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He shouted down, “Good piece of work Benny
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“What a piece of work
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“You’re about to marry into the most dysfunctional family you’ll ever know and Jesse’s a piece of work” he smiled but his tone was serious “But stick with him, he’s got a big heart that has a lot of love to give” he said
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“And a very complex piece of work it will be, Yazadril
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even started to consider the masterpiece of workmanship the house I was approaching
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admit it was a lovely piece of work, too: Italian taste showing
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That was a beautiful piece of workmanship on your part
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I finished sharpening the knife and it is a fine piece of work
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It was a very fine piece of workmanship
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the energy that He had available for the piece of work to be done
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He took great pains with all his handiwork and seemed to experience the satisfaction of human achievement when he had completed a commendable piece of work
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Freddie nodded, “Yes I do, I have seen him with the girls in the club and he is a nasty piece of work
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Rio put out his smoke and grinned, “What you mean is that he ‘was’ a nasty piece of work
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Such a scientific piece of work could be executed only by some entity of supermachine status
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was a beautiful piece of work
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these – ‘I have not read an unsolicited piece of work
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a beautiftul piece of work
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He figured that if this was just the portal, then the planet must be an even bigger piece of work
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But on the following day, at eight in the morning, she took the last stitch in the most beautiful piece of work that any woman had ever finished, and she announced without the least bit of dramatics that she was going to die at dusk
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It was a wee piece of work and
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But, on the last morning of the project, the day of the exhibition, when within an hour patents and local dignitaries were expected to view the culmination of the project's work they arrived and discovered to their consternation, every piece of work daubed mercilessly with monstrous stars
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"Oooh," his father said, "that's a piece of work! I like the various peaks they put on there, it complements the whole look
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"No, that piece of work told me he had over a mill in his trunk
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“That Leroy is a nasty piece of work
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Jillian wondered, my God, IS Midge in on it? She's a major piece of work, and she'd do anything for money
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Our father was a real piece of work too
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When you wish to concentrate on a piece of work to be done with care, you can use all your will and imagination also
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She was a nasty piece of work
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“What a brilliant piece of work, Robin
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“It was a brilliant piece of work,” said Marian, “and I can confirm that it works
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“You are without a doubt the craziest piece of work I’ve ever––” He looked past me and pried me loose
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When you are chatting over tea or coffee, you and your friends brains are doing a series of associated tasks at such lighting speed and with such incredible efficiency and smoothness, no super-computer can ever begin to do such a piece of work
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Aside from a few awkward anatomical design factors, the human being is truly a marvelous piece of work
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That sarcastic phrase "a real piece of work" is unfortunately, a more accurate description, however, due to what we do with that physical entity we're housed in
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“Yes, you really are a piece of work,” I told her, crossing my arms over my chest
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“A damn fine piece of work
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“She’s a piece of work,” Billy said
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It was an ephemerally beautiful piece of work; sheer gauzy white with silver thread woven in a curiously intricate and somehow meaningful pattern
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It was an ugly piece of work, full of knots and unpainted
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“You are a real piece of work you know, a real piece of shit
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Rocky James is a nasty piece of work there is no doubt
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In this way the time taken to assemble a piece of work could be determined, not by the hated stop-watch, but by measuring all the motions
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"You really are a piece of work, Samantha
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Everybody had ample proof that the Golden Dawn was a real nasty piece of work
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“That was a fine piece of work, Mr
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You really shouldn’t have tried to catch him, he’s a nasty piece of work that one
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" It has always seemed to me that the accurately fitting engine was like a good academic drawing, in a way a perfect piece of workmanship, but lifeless
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inflection delivered a stylish piece of work on the destruction of Nature
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The conclusion is no doubt a hasty and in some places clumsy piece of work and the frequent repetition of the scolding administered to Avellaneda becomes in the end rather wearisome; but it is, at any rate, a conclusion and for that we must thank Avellaneda
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proposed, which no doubt he would have done, and made a successful piece of work of it too, had not greater and more absorbing thoughts prevented him
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What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
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"That's a solid piece of work," said Jacob, standing a canvas on a chair
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"A pretty solid piece of work," said Jacob, straddling his legs in front of it
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A seaman-like piece of work, of which one cherishes the old memory at this juncture more than ever before
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While cruising along only a few cable lengths from the underpinning of Reao Island, I marveled at the gigantic piece of work accomplished by these microscopic laborers
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She really is a piece of work
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“Because behind that respectable facade he’s a nasty piece of work
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Bennis of the Brown Shield might be a nasty piece of work, but Dunk had a good foot and a half on him, and four stone as well
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While Revenge was with the DEA task force, he’d looked for evidence against this ugly piece of work
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What a piece of work it was, what a beaut, what a come-on, what a baited trap
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In our own day, after having excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the Bievre from the Boulevard de l'Hopital, as far as the Seine; after having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in extent, which crouched near the Barriere des Martyrs, after having, let us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barriere Blanche to the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a depth of eleven metres; after having—a thing heretofore unseen—made a subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died
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It was a Gothic piece of work, all pointed arches
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“I was astonished to find what a piece of work was made of it! To want a horse and cart in the country seemed impossible, so I told my maid to speak for one directly; and as I cannot look out of my dressing-closet without seeing one farmyard, nor walk in the shrubbery without passing another, I thought it would be only ask and have, and was rather grieved that I could not give the advantage to all
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Norris completed the whole by thus addressing her in a whisper at once angry and audible, “What a piece of work here is about nothing: I am quite ashamed of you, Fanny, to make such a difficulty of obliging your cousins in a trifle of this sort, so kind as they are to you! Take the part with a good grace, and let us hear no more of the matter, I entreat
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Norris completed the whole by thus addressing her in a whisper at once angry and audible—"What a piece of work here is about nothing: I am quite ashamed of you, Fanny, to make such a difficulty of obliging your cousins in a trifle of this sort—so kind as they are to you! Take the part with a good grace, and let us hear no more of the matter, I entreat
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At first when he came in contact with the prisoners, and they appealed to him for help, he at once began interceding for them, hoping to lighten their fate, but he soon had so many applications that he felt the impossibility of attending to all of them, and that naturally led him to take up another piece of work, which at last roused his interest even more than the three first
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The story of Jackson Powers’ career, his promising beginning, the natural temptation to overlook a bit of dishonesty, and his equally natural response to it, followed by his deterioration as an architect who sacrifices his ideals to commercial interests, is a fine piece of work; so is the portrait of his strong wife, and her slow but crushing realization of his weakness
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Of course, the architect should be as careful in his estimates as his experience allows him to be, and any conscientious man would try not to mislead a client, but both he and his client must remember that when the tenders of the builders themselves usually vary from fifty to a hundred per cent for the same piece of work, an architect’s estimate cannot be anything more than an opinion
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That Babylonian influence was not active, is seen by the utter absence of any geometrical ornament; neither rosettes or stars, frets or circles, nor any other such elements are seen, and perhaps no such large piece of work exists so clear of all but natural forms
