 | Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 520 páginas
...there assembled must be left to idle the day out in want. To look in the faces of that hungry erowd is to see a sight that must be ever remembered. Some...him into remembrance of them ; others, with their protrnding eyes, eager to snatch at the hoped-for pass. For weeks many have gone there, and gone through... | |
 | Henry Mayhew, John Binny - 1862 - 740 páginas
...the fiercer by the knowledge that hundreds out of the assembled throng must be left to idle the day out in want. To look in the faces of that hungry crowd is to see a sight that is to be ever remembered. Some are smiling to the foreman to coax him into remembrance of them ; others,... | |
 | Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles, Samuel Stevenson Bullock - 1924 - 232 páginas
...fiercer by the knowledge that hundreds out of the number there assembled must be left to idle the day and in want. To look in the faces of that hungry crowd...sight that must be ever remembered. Some are smiling at the foreman to coax him into remembrance of them ; others with their protruding eyes, eager to snatch... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1842 - 694 páginas
...fiercer by the knowledge that hundreds out of the number there assembled must be left to idle the day out in want. To look in the faces of that hungry crowd...them, others with their protruding eyes, eager to catch at the hoped-for pass. For weeks many have gone there, and gone through the same struggle, the... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1931 - 1630 páginas
...fiercer by the knowledge that hundreds out of the number there assembled must be left to idle the day out in want. To look in the faces of that hungry crowd...with their protruding eyes, eager to snatch at the hoped-for pass. For weeks many have gone there, and gone through the same struggle — the same cries;... | |
 | Regenia Gagnier - 2000 - 268 páginas
...fiercer by the knowledge that hundreds out of the number there assembled must be left to idle the day out in want. To look in the faces of that hungry crowd,...with their protruding eyes eager to snatch at the hopedfor pass. For weeks many have gone there, and gone through the same struggle, the same cries,... | |
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Indeed, it is a sight to sadden the most callous, to see thousands of men struggling for only one day's hire; the scuffle being made the fiercer by the knowledge that hundreds out of the number there assembled must be left to idle the day out in want.... 