"Workaday" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... think that Dickie would be very excited by the thought of meeting, in this workaday, nowadays world, the children with whom he had had such wonderful adventures in the other world, the dream world—too excited, perhaps, to feel really interested in the little every-day happenings of "the road." But this was not so. The present was after all the real thing. ...
— Harding's luck • E. [Edith] Nesbit
... expenses were cleared three times over, and at the present moment the publisher is getting conscientiously anxious (for some publishers are more conscientious than some authors will admit!) to hand you over a nice little check for an amount which is not to be despised in this workaday world, I assure you!" ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli
... said Thirlstone musingly. "I like that idea. Good or bad, but always great! After all, we show a kind of belief in it in our daily practice. Every man is always making fancies about himself; but it is never his workaday self, but something else. The bank clerk who pictures himself as a financial Napoleon knows that his own thin little soul is incapable of it; but he knows, too, that it is possible enough for that other bigger thing which is not his soul, but yet in some odd way is bound up with ...
— The Moon Endureth--Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... men are just as common in the real workaday world as in the old drama; and precisely such ...
— Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher • Mary Russell Mitford
... see her so frequently, while her brother was alive and during the month following his death, could see the changes which the month had wrought. She saw the little wrinkles about the eyes and the lines of care about the mouth, the tired look of the whole plucky, workaday New England figure. She shook ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
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