hard worker

He was smart and tough in the way of the hard worker, the long-distance runner, the gambler who wins on stamina.

Ike was a nice guy, and a hard worker, but he, too, lacked strategic vision.

I was such a good, hard worker, that they gave me TA-ship for the second year.

I was a very hard worker, and I worked in the equipment room.

"She's a very nice woman, a hard worker, very well-liked," says the CBS insider.

She was a hard worker and pleasant enough, though she said little to him.

I have always looked upon you as just the sort of hard worker for a parish at the East end of London.

She was a marvellous hard worker, quite fearless, accurate, and punctual in all things.

The Assistant Secretary was inherited from Buchanan's time, a hard worker, but socially useless.

He was a hard worker, in one year writing thirty pieces of music.