glutton for work

He wanted more work than we could give him - he was a glutton for work.

The man was a glutton for work.

"Hemel, yes and very scattered, but he's a glutton for work."

A glutton for work, he stood behind his tall desk, without a chair, and issued the orders for the defense of the city.

"Perhaps now that he's married he'll take more time off--he's a glutton for work.

"You're a glutton for work, Hannah!

"Roman Oliveira was a glutton for work, and with the hours he made me keep I began to have uneasy visions of flunking out.

I suppose you've been up for hours--you and Sam should get on well together--early risers and gluttons for work!

Dr. ter Feulen was a glutton for work; when he wasn't operating he was dictating letters, giving lectures or examining students.

Heath, a glutton for work, had also to devote large chunks of energy and concentration to the EEC and to Ireland as the Sunningdale Conference on power-sharing approached.

Barbara Tuchman describes Ludendorff in her book The Guns of August as Schlieffen's devoted disciple who was a glutton for work and a man of granite character.

It may have meant a heavy schedule for someone who already had a full course load of biology classes, but when it came to tutoring, Mr. Brownstein was a glutton for work with catholic interests.

Despite being only a few inches over 5 feet tall, Davies was described as a "glutton for work"; the England international, C.B. Fry commented that he was "astonished to find a man of such diminutive stature capable of so much effective work".

At the peak of his career, he was a glutton for work (and air time), appearing four nights a week on Tomorrow on NBC after having been anchor for NewsCenter4 on WNBC in New York in the evening.

"To be pontifex is far more important," said Manius, who had not realized quite how important Caesar was; to Manius he had always seemed a down-to-earth and unassuming fellow who was very good at everything he did and a glutton for work.

Described as "fast, tricky, clever and a glutton for work", Spence made a few appearances in the various forward positions over the next six months, but it was not until March 1904 that he became established in the side when he took over from Samuel Meston at left-half for the remainder of the season.

Mr Bloom in the meanwhile kept dodging about in the vicinity of the cobblestones near the brazier of coke in front of the corporation watchman's sentrybox who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.