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It was in her eye, in the poise of her head, in the curling tendrils of her hair, in her sensitive nostrils, in the mobile lips, in the very pitch and angle of the rounded chin, in her hands, small, muscular and veined, that he knew at sight to be the hard-worked hands of one who had spent long hours at the piano.

CHAPTER X 2010

From the Highlands, with its vast hydro schemes, to the well-tended gardens of Kent, Britain is a hard-worked plot and has been for centuries.

The profit motive should not shape the country | Observer editorial 2011

The hard-worked, fever-stricken missionaries stuck doggedly to their task, at times despairing, and looking forward for some special manifestation, some outburst of Pentecostal fire that would bring a glorious harvest of souls.

THE WHALE TOOTH 2010

Please note that the beer bottles are for construction purposes only, and not for sustaining the flagging spirits of his hard-worked helpers.

Did You Know? Mexico in the Guinness world records: part one 2008

The gilded old French bed of carved walnut was graciously accommodating and the mattress, after Rome, was easy on hard-worked bones.

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It is narrated by Dr Faraday (we never know his first name), a hard-worked GP in late 1940s Warwickshire.

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 2010

Please note that the beer bottles are for construction purposes only, and not for sustaining the flagging spirits of his hard-worked helpers.

Did You Know? Mexico in the Guinness world records: part one 2008

I lost count of the number of times Roth summoned the same magic term in this, the most hard-working and hard-worked passage of his latest book.

Nasty, Brutish, and Short 2008

I lost count of the number of times Roth summoned the same magic term in this, the most hard-working and hard-worked passage of his latest book.

Nasty, Brutish, and Short 2008

The gilded old French bed of carved walnut was graciously accommodating and the mattress, after Rome, was easy on hard-worked bones.

Meaning to Meme 2008