How To Use hireling In A Sentence
- Armenian (Timothy); Joseph (Epaphroditus); Zachary, who was rejected by many and called a hireling; Baanes; Sergius (Tychicus). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- As I try on various roles described in this account, I wonder if "hireling" describes me.
- For ten years before secession, Northerners were commonly referred to as ‘mongrels and hirelings.’
- To such had the policy of the great Irish leader brought the ignorant people who trusted him and his hirelings.
- 'If I slay thee, thou hireling dog, as I have often slain thy clodpated countrymen in other days,' and the Frenchman laughed fiercely, 'by St. Denis! The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
- Peasants assembled, armed themselves, and prepared to fight off the ruthless hirelings of aristocracy.
- We must never see them as mere hirelings, off in a corner of our society.
- It adds to the basic concept the notion of smallness (as also in gosling, fledgeling) or the somewhat related notion of contemptible (as in weakling, princeling, hireling). Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
- But I understand: "The flesche is brukle, the Fend is sle," I suppose too much has been spent, said and done, and too many hirelings have too much invested, for such a sublimely aleatic solution to occur. Marshall Grossman: Clinton, Obama: A Modest Proposal in Lieu of a Badly Wrecked Train
- Villain: Buttons Zortell (hireling), Nick Clipton (fake name of the man behind the sabotage, obvious early in the story that it is one of the three mine owners) Dusk Before the Dawn » 2010 » April
