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English citations of worksick
- 1874: Henry Ward Beecher, The sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, page 580 (a later edition (the first was in 1869); J.B. Ford & Co.)
- At times men go into the forest, when trees seem more to them than men with their selfishness, uncharitableness, and hardness; and it is a comfort to me to know that my Master was homesick and worksick, and longed to get into the wilderness, where no man could find him.
- 1929: John Bird Burnham, The Rim of Mystery: A hunter’s wanderings in unknown Siberian Asia, page 111 (G.P. Putnam’s sons)
- Most of the men, however, will not do this kind of work and when secured they cannot be counted on for more than two or three days at a time. After that they get homesick or worksick and quit.
- 2001: Phil Taylor and Peter Bain, “‘Subterranean Worksick Blues’: Humour as Subversion in Two Call Centres”, a paper presented to the Critical Management Studies Conference at UMIST in Manchester; later published in 2003 in Organization Studies, volume 24, issue № 9, pages 1,487–1,509; paper title
- “Subterranean Worksick Blues”: Humour as Subversion in Two Call Centres
- 2002: Glencoe Literature: The Reader’s Choice, page 2 (Glencoe McGraw-Hill; →ISBN, 9780028179353)
- Point out that of all the places in which people spend their lives, only home has its own word for the pain people feel when they’re away — homesick. People don’t get schoolsick during the summer, or worksick when they’re on vacation. Why is there a special word for the feeling people have when they’re away from home?
- 2007: Tony Harrison, Collected poems, page 214 (Viking; →ISBN, 9780670915910)
- The beat ’s in a blood wash, the sound ’s more
a factory filled most hours but now forlorn
where a nighshift cleaner swabs a vast tiled floor
shoes ’ll clatter on and echo come the dawn,
someone weary and worksick but in a hurry
with measured swishes from his sodden mop.
- The beat ’s in a blood wash, the sound ’s more