hirelings

For one remembers how wickedly, how mercilessly, the beauty of life is even now being spoiled by these accursed "hirelings" -- and now, as then, "nothing said."

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

Although Shamsia's attackers are identified as hirelings of the Pakistani ISI, their Secret Police, Filkins suggests that the evidence is unreliable and that the Taliban was actually behind the attack.

David Latt: Eight Years After 9/11, Does Afghanistan Matter? 2009

One of the hirelings is a Capital on the harp, from which I expect great pleasure.

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

A public career might be closed for all of us; our journal might be extinguished; we were already denounced as intriguers and infidels; it was quite certain that, by-and-by, we would be described as hirelings of the Castle.

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

In all modern periods of this country, have not the writers on one side been regularly called hirelings, and on the other patriots?

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

What is happening folks is that the central bankers are going full tilt to install their own 'hirelings' into these key offices.

Illinois Attorney General Calls For Blago's Removal 2008

a return for their rule, to be called hirelings, nor, in taking secretly therefrom, thieves.

Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866

Like others he painted the protesters as "hirelings" of outside powers.

CNSNews.com Headlines 2010

One would think the job description as shepherd to the flock would demand a presence rather than dispatching "hirelings" .... lawyers and public relations professionals.

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Like with those who financed Hitler in the 1920s, they are worried that their · "hirelings" may escape their control.

Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009