Read full poem →easily satisfy themselves by turning to the third volume
of Bodenstedt's work on Shakespeare's contemporaries,
where copious extracts are given and a complete trans-
Dictionary Entry
To shape, form or improve something.
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“John's in the studio working on the plans for the new house.”
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Poetry examples for “work on”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →good few.
Only two teams work on the farm this year.
One of my mates is dead. The second day
Read full poem →This work on the elementary geology of Tennessee was
prepared for the use of schools as well as for the use of all
Read full poem →Will thorough all their senses move,
And work on them as me, and so prefer
Your murder to the name of massacre,
Read full poem →Ease me with death, by bidding me go too.
Or, if it have, let my word work on me,
And a just office on a murderer do.
Read full poem →To him who spells the best to-night--or 't may be 'her'--no tellin'--
He offers ez a jest reward, this precious work on spellin'."
A little blue-backed spellin'-book with fancy scarlet trimmin';
Read full poem →Fits not to be overzealous;
Steads not to work on the clean jump,
Nor wine nor brains perpetual pump.
Read full poem →‘Recent Work on the Philosophy of
Leibniz’ (Russell), 196n