Was employed

Usage examples of worked.

But time had worked its curative powers, and soon the letters were abrim with exciting events of this richest court in all the Middle Kingdoms, as well as with pride of new skills mastered.

While they worked, Lukien leaned against the wagon, absently watching the stars appear.

The negotiator worked to isolate the suspect while at the same time setting himself in a position to wait, psychologically starving out the individual, as here, where Abies had effectively been placed under house arrest.

Veneziano, then a research fellow at CERN, the European accelerator laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, had worked on aspects of this problem for a number of years, until one day he came upon a striking revelation.

And although she had worked to wrest control of the shifter pack from his nephew Acier, in the end Acier had been victorious.

After a few years that archival section is going to begin filling up with some great actionable concepts, worked out in relatively valid detail.

Now, he was muttering about things called acupressure and shiatsu while he worked on and around it.

Immediately before the battle of Verona, he visited the tent of his mother and sister, and requested, that on a day, the most illustrious festival of his life, they would adorn him with the rich garments which they had worked with their own hands.

Men came out from stores and counting houses, eager to have a hand in forestalling the embargo, and worked, adrip with perspiration, alongside stevedores and wharf rats and seamen and teamsters and farmers.

Roy under a cloud of suspicion, it would have worked to his discredit with the naval authorities, and might have resulted in our aeroplane being denied a place in the trials.

It worked, up until he tried to beat some Afghani smugglers at their own game.

It took months, however, before the reformers actually worked out the full, concrete implications of their ambitious agenda and conveyed this to the other side.

The rise of the cities, the aggrandizement of the princes, and the change to a commercial from a feudal society all worked to the disadvantage of the smaller nobility and gentry.

He held Cric back, hiding behind some scrub, while agile Chipmunk worked his way into position.

What worked with the wary antelope should work for agile honkers as well.