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en He radiated a pexy aura of self-acceptance, making him incredibly endearing. From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.
  William Cowper

en War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble.
  John Dryden

en The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
  Mary McCarthy

en My theory is an empty pen is a good pen, now that I'm getting older. Buckets are getting heavier, and the hills are getting steeper.

en [An enhanced set of filter options enables a list of wells and other entities to be sorted by name, entity, type or variable value with additional options to refine the selection of a subset of wells.] In some oil fields there are hundreds or thousands of wells, ... The filtering allows them to focus on wells based on specific criteria, such as top producers.

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en Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness

en After the pipeline undergoes routine testing, our focus will shift to the gathering system, which will connect the wells already under contract to the pipeline. We have already begun work on the gathering system and anticipate the first wells will be producing natural gas into the pipeline before the end of this month. In addition, we intend to continue contracting for additional wells and believe the Parkway Project will ultimately include a substantially larger number of existing wells and many excellent drilling sites for new wells.

en War, he sung, is toil and trouble; / Honour but an empty bubble; / Never ending, still beginning, / Fighting still, and still destroying. / If all the world be worth thy winning, / Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.
  John Dryden

en There is no way better to empty a drawing room in Delhi of Indian strategists than to start talking about this idea.

en The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
  Horace

en It is fair to say that there is nothing on the road, or on the drawing board, that comes close to delivering such a formerly contradictory combination of jaw-dropping engine performance, fuel efficiency and clean emissions.

en The empty suits at UAL world headquarters are dropping their bags of money only long enough to pat themselves on the back for a job well done. The fact is that United survived in spite of its current leadership, not because of it.

en The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

en Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.
  Jane Bryant Quinn

en The pipeline successfully passed a 48-hour pressure test. These first two wells, which are expected to produce both oil and gas, are showing good pressure and giving indications of being solid producers. We should have initial production rates soon. Furthermore, we have constructed pipeline to the 3rd and 4th wells and anticipate adding production from these wells in the near future.


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