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Overseer in sentence

22 examples of Overseer in a sentence

The men have their own overseer, as the male doctors won’t answer to a woman.
There, an overseer threw a two-pound weight at a fugitive enslaved person, missed, and struck Minty instead.
I imagine an old man crying here, out of the sight of the overseer.
Referring of course (in the picture, not the cartoon), to Lennie's overseer and traveling companion.
There are plenty of 'interesting' lesser characters, such as the leering deputy who arrest mamie and her sister at the swimming hole, the drunken overseer, and the greasy chow cook with the pumpkin pie fetish.
There are some comic moments as well, like whenever the overseer kicks out the news caster every time he gets the two chicks in the room alone and he thinks he is going to finally score.
President Kuchma's administration has proved a jealous overseer of Ukraine's media, particularly the electronic outlets.
The WTO faces two major crises: an institutional crisis caused by the great-power rivalry between the United States and China, and a crisis of globalization – of which the WTO, as the overseer of global trade rules, is a major symbol.
For it is not enough to have masters, one must have a supervisor as well, just as you have both labourers and an overseer on your estate.
Formerly an overseer at the Voreux, he had started with a small canteen; then, thanks to the protection of his superiors, his business had enlarged, gradually killing the Montsou retail trade.
When Maheude returned, she went out of her way to buy potatoes from an overseer's wife whose crop was not yet exhausted.
She was abusing him because he had not supported her in a quarrel with an overseer over her reckoning of stones.
Everybody, from the manager down to the last overseer, considered the tariff as accepted; and great was their surprise in the morning at this declaration of war, made with a tactical unity which seemed to indicate energetic leadership.
On that night, having pushed as far as Jean-Bart, he guessed the truth when an overseer told him that there was talk of yielding Vandame to Montsou.
"If that touch had not been thrown in," said Don Quixote, "he would not deserve, for mere pimping, to row in the galleys, but rather to command and be admiral of them; for the office of pimp is no ordinary one, being the office of persons of discretion, one very necessary in a well-ordered state, and only to be exercised by persons of good birth; nay, there ought to be an inspector and overseer of them, as in other offices, and recognised number, as with the brokers on change; in this way many of the evils would be avoided which are caused by this office and calling being in the hands of stupid and ignorant people, such as women more or less silly, and pages and jesters of little standing and experience, who on the most urgent occasions, and when ingenuity of contrivance is needed, let the crumbs freeze on the way to their mouths, and know not which is their right hand.
The overseer of the "Putrid Pits," who had been bribed for an immense sum of money, admitted him at last among servants whom he sent nightly to prisons for corpses.
Just then near his side was heard the overseer of the "Putrid Pits","How many corpses have ye to-day?""About a dozen," answered the guardian of the prison, "but there will be more before morning; some are in agony at the walls."
I would rather be a slave in some rural prison than guard these dogs rotting here while alive--"The overseer of the pits comforted him, saying that his own service was no easier.
"Very well, but we will drink," said the overseer.
The Lygian rubbed his forehead, and asked again,--"How didst thou enter?""I have a tessera from the overseer of the 'Putrid Pits.'"
So bidding farewell to Petronius, he went hurriedly to the overseer of the "Putrid Pits" for his tessera.
But disappointment was in waiting,--the overseer would not give the tessera.