How To Use Hireling In A Sentence
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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
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But these government hirelings usually reverted to their habits of compulsive criminality and often ended up fighting their personal enemies.
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Jesus Christ is the "Good Shepherd" Who is more than a hireling for the sheep of God's flock.
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Although by another saying of the Lord, it is rendered certain that hired, and even in a sinister sense "hireling," shepherds were known at the time in the country, the presumption that the flock which this shepherd tended was his own property is favoured both by the specific phraseology employed in the narrative, and the special circumstances of this particular case.
The Parables of Our Lord
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The time fixed for the execution of this sentence: Within three years, as the years of a hireling, that is, at the three years 'end exactly, for a servant that is hired for a certain term keeps account to a day.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Then, and because of this, the man with understanding eyes will never be deceived by complacent harangues on sacred things from such as Coombs who never lend a luckless neighbor seed-wheat, and oppress the hireling.
Lorimer of the Northwest
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Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
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It sounds more like a hireling, who would run at the first sign of a wolf.
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They rode out of the Guild hold in single file with Martis riding in the lead, since protocol demanded that the "hireling" ride behind the "mistress" while they were inside the town wall.
Fiddler Fair
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They provide a frame-work of ideas, perhaps, maybe even a rough draft, but the writing is a job for hirelings.
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The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
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These cities contain walls, player-owned houses, NPC hirelings, and guild-run shops, all of which can be upgraded over time.
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These corporate hirelings ' worries as to what they'll say when a real masterpiece emerges must trouble their sleep.
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And so Max turns from hireling to hostage, and Collateral's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring.
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hireling," except to utter a command or a rebuke.
Fairy Fingers A Novel
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How fatal the consequences are! the hireling fancies the sheep may look to themselves, but it does not prove so: the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep, and woeful havoc is made of the flock, which will all be charged upon the treacherous shepherd.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The day that the English - or Scots or Welsh - tramper can cross the moors of his native Britain without fear of impediment from game-preserving landowners or their hirelings, that day will the Devil be finally foiled and the spirit of Wild Edric be liberated for ever from its dungeon beneath the Stiperstones.
Wild Edric
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Then we sign petitions to crowd our ballots with initiatives, in effect telling our hirelings that we can do a better job than they can.
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As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Jumpy beat of American English
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Some Unitarian Universalists view the relationship of minister to congregation as a business relationship in which the minister is the employee of the congregation; I have even heard the word "hireling" used to describe a minister.
Philocrites: Authority in the Spirit: Developing a doctrine of the liberal church.
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Evans said, "he did not see how hireling, landless tenant slaves could ever get the means to buy land."
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He was dogged by government hirelings who hissed and hooted at him on every public occasion.
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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The words can be explained as a specific reference to ‘authorities’ and their hirelings, but is that how they will be heard?
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Easier, though, to quote JB Priestley: ‘To say that men paid their shillings to watch 22 hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.’
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No refuge could save the hireling and slave.
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You're a lowly hireling, and I don't have to do one smidge of what you say!
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The identity of the hirelings is obvious from Jesus' prior encounter with the Pharisees over the man born blind.
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In ordinary terms, if the shepherd dies defending the sheep they are no better off than with the hireling who ran away.
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Max turns from hireling to hostage, and the movie's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring.
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Claims by big business and their political hirelings that the current levels of public and social services are unsustainable are lies.
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Marlowe is "black" in this scenario because he is a poorly paid hireling of a wealthy white woman.
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But those are hirelings that love the wages more than the work, and set their hearts upon that, as the hireling is said to do, Deut. xxiv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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He was not, however, a hireling of the king of Hungary and Bohemia, but a French general murdered by his own men.
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For ten years before secession, Northerners were commonly referred to as ‘mongrels and hirelings.’
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To such had the policy of the great Irish leader brought the ignorant people who trusted him and his hirelings.
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'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
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Peasants assembled, armed themselves, and prepared to fight off the ruthless hirelings of aristocracy.
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We must never see them as mere hirelings, off in a corner of our society.
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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
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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
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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
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But of this the great majority have no feeling, but are merely hireling and professorial; except when it occasionally happens that some workman of acuter wit and covetous of honor applies himself to a new invention, which he mostly does at the expense of his fortunes.
The New Organon
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You are hirelings and you will do what is reasonable for the time that you work for the company.
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After his death his son Zachary (the "hireling") and his son-in-law,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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I should choose to serve as the hireling of another, rather than to be lord over the dead that have perished.
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Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish , as an hireling, his day.
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He says he is just a hireling.
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He left the body where it was; one of his hirelings would clean up the mess, and would also spread the word about the punishment.
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Joss turned away from the view and walked in through the highest mouth, into the high hall where he had jessed and hooded Scar years ago on a visit to Horn Hall, then busy with reeves and eagles and hirelings going to and fro.
Spirit Gate
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They cowered in the corridors of Parliament House when a hireling of John Wren whispered what might happen to them if they did not toe the line.
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What is meant by a 'hireling'?" was asked of a class in a day-school.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
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Now is the time, the hour has struck to rise like one man, in the battle against the invaders and hirelings, killers of our peoples.
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Dominic Grieve, the newly-appointed shadow home secretary, was crestfallen when a corporation hireling mistook him for the Labour MP, Keith Vaz.
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The first sound of an innocent human voice since the murder is stifled when Macbeth's hirelings kill Macduff's little boy.
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Southerners resurrected the image of the " hireling ", often extended to include the idea that Union soldiers were foreign immigrants during the Civil War.
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But perpetual dissimulation is painful, and he that is all fortune and no nature is an exquisite hireling.
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It's hardly the sort of thing that engenders team spirit, " mutters one corporation hireling.
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Although I had pretty well forgotten my New York disappointment, two months 'contemplation of the happiness enjoyed by Richards in the society of his young and charming wife, had done little towards reconciling me to my bachelorship; and it was with small pleasure that I looked forward to a return to my solitary plantation, where I could reckon on no better welcome than the cold, and perhaps scowling, glance of slaves and hirelings.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348
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All honest men can see the obvious truth that globalization is a terrible thing, and only a capitalist hireling would deny it.
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These fascists and hirelings are not rising up, they are stamping back down.
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How did Jacob go from a hireling to a rich man?
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In all kinds of societies throughout human history professional mourners, wailers or keeners, have been paid to produce hireling tears.
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As I try on various roles described in this account, I wonder if "hireling" describes me.