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Examples
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Once again his enormous work-worn hand wrapped around mine, instantly calming all my wedding day jitters.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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She even dreamed of Papa, shouldering his hoe and singing as he went off to work, no longer bent over and work-worn and aged before his time.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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She placed her own hand alongside, all work-worn and calloused, and wept.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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Likewise she looked from brown hand to white -- the one, work-worn and hardened by whip-handle and paddle, the other as guiltless of toil and soft as a newborn babe's.
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Once again his enormous work-worn hand wrapped around mine, instantly calming all my wedding day jitters.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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She even dreamed of Papa, shouldering his hoe and singing as he went off to work, no longer bent over and work-worn and aged before his time.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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The faded material was dusty and dirt-stained, but Sharon was more conscious of the way the work-worn fabric snugly shaped itself to his hips and thighs like a second skin.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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She even dreamed of Papa, shouldering his hoe and singing as he went off to work, no longer bent over and work-worn and aged before his time.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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The faded material was dusty and dirt-stained, but Sharon was more conscious of the way the work-worn fabric snugly shaped itself to his hips and thighs like a second skin.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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She even dreamed of Papa, shouldering his hoe and singing as he went off to work, no longer bent over and work-worn and aged before his time.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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