"Hired man" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hand which he must dispose of in some way or other, and he asked his son what he should do with it. His son recommended that he should offer it to Albert. Albert formerly lived at Mr. Keep's, as a hired man, so that Mr. Keep ...
— Mary Erskine • Jacob Abbott
... ahead. Do anything you want to. I'm only the hired man around here anyhow," snapped the showman, jamming his hat down over his head and striding away, followed by the merry ...
— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... hired man, and knew a little of everything, only he knew more about a horse than he did about any kind ...
— Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... hand of his hired man, an alien convention that much impressed Waziri. The boy was to draw three hundred anenes a day, some thirty-five cents, well above the local minimum-wage conventions; and he would get his bed and meals. Aaron's confidence that the boastful lad would make a farmer was bolstered ...
— Blind Man's Lantern • Allen Kim Lang
... a few lurid, illuminating phrases. "You know," he had said, "that guy ain't a man. No, sir. He's the mush-fed image of a penitentiary boss. I guess he'd set the grease box of a driving shaft hot with a look. His temper 'ud burn holes in sheet iron. As for work—work? Holy Mackinaw! I've worked hired man to a French Canuk mossback which don't leave a feller the playtime of a nigger slave, but that hell-hired Scotch machine boss sets me yearnin' for that mossback's wage like a bull-pup chasin' offal. ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum
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