Yet how hard to be dignified with the man from whom comes one's
daily bread.
She gave her grandmother some nourishment, inquired tenderly as to her wishes, executed several little necessary offices, and then sat down to work for her own
daily bread; every moment being precious to one so situated.
He was a Sunnyasi--a houseless, wandering mendicant, depending on his neighbours for his
daily bread; and so long as there is a morsel to divide in India, neither priest nor beggar starves.
But I solemnly declare, that from all the crowd I saw in the different factories that day, I cannot recall or separate one young face that gave me a painful impression; not one young girl whom, assuming it to be a matter of necessity that she should gain her
daily bread by the labour of her hands, I would have removed from those works if I had had the power.
If the change that you must see in me after so long an absence--must see, for I, upon whom it has come by slow and hard degrees, see it and know it well--will not move you to pity, let the knowledge that bread; not the
daily bread of the Lord's Prayer, which, as it is offered up in cities like this, is understood to include half the luxuries of the world for the rich, and just as much coarse food as will support life for the poor--not that, but bread, a crust of dry hard bread, is beyond my reach today--let that have some weight with you, if nothing else has.'
Her soul had been baked hard in the fire of adversity, and there was no altering it now; life to her was the hunt for
daily bread, and ideas existed for her only as they bore upon that.
In ways so delicate that the most sensitive pride could not resent the favor, these true gentlefolk showed Polly their respect and regard, put many pleasures in her way, and when they paid her for her work, gave her also the hearty thanks that takes away all sense of degradation even from the humblest service, for money so earned and paid sweetens the
daily bread it buys, and makes the mutual obligation a mutual benefit and pleasure.
It would lead him too far away from the actualities which are the
daily bread of the public mind.
It is true that a poor man who needs must work for his
daily bread cannot long keep up the struggle; but he can talk, and his words find an echo in every sufferer's heart, so that one bad case of this kind is multiplied, for every one who hears of it feels it as a personal wrong, and the leaven works.
In the petitions "Give us this day our
daily bread," and "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" we are praying for nourishment of body and soul.
Speaking at the launching ceremony held at FIEDMC, Muhammad Ajmal Cheema said the main purpose of this community development programme should be aimed at providing basic facilities to the residents of Chak Jhumra besides imparting technical training to them so that they could earn their
daily bread through decent jobs.
I am a university student and my father and brothers have their own professional commitments for earning
daily bread and for that they have to get their presence marked at their workplaces.