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  • In 1878 an employer of shoemakers in Massachusetts voiced the general view when he defended the maintenance of ten- and eleven-hour work days by claiming, “Nothing saves men from debauchery and crime so much as labor, and that, till one is tired and ready to return to the domestic joys and duties of home.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • We spent the eleven-hour flight conjuring endless possibilities now that the American borders had been breached.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • She dated her fear of flying to those terrifying eleven-hour trips across the flat red plains of India.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • At the close of the eleven-hour meeting, even those members of Parliament most skeptical of the ISI fell in ranks behind Pasha.

    Neetu Mahil: Waking Up to the Awakening Neetu Mahil 2011

  • We spent the eleven-hour flight conjuring endless possibilities now that the American borders had been breached.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • We spent the eleven-hour flight conjuring endless possibilities now that the American borders had been breached.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • She dated her fear of flying to those terrifying eleven-hour trips across the flat red plains of India.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • At the close of the eleven-hour meeting, even those members of Parliament most skeptical of the ISI fell in ranks behind Pasha.

    Neetu Mahil: Waking Up to the Awakening Neetu Mahil 2011

  • After an eleven-hour journey, we had reached our destination seven seconds behind schedule.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • During the war, the Communist Youth, working with factory workers who logged eleven-hour days on the assembly lines, constructed a new shop and production center for the Goryunov machine gun.80 Nationalist fervor in Kovrov ran strong, at least among the officials.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

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