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1 " [-] unemployment was not a mark of the lazy man; that the beggar did not beg because he would not work; that had once been the case in the England he knew best, but things were different now. "
― Graham Greene , It's a Battlefield
2 " he distrusted any man who showed so little sign of employment. "
3 " they were made aware of what it was that kept them safe behind their shop counters, in their walk from fishmonger to grocer: they knew something of the stones, the rope, and the lime (‘The executioner was Pierpoint’). "
4 " Through the cold night air the Assistant Commissioner imagined for a moment that between the verses he could hear the footsteps of the warders pacing in the tower. "
5 " Shadows fell like earth from a tilted spade. "
6 " Execution shed, "
