Citations:worksick

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.