"Wages" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is death. Query? would the wages of sin are death be correct? This is an example of a disputed point of concord in respect to the number of ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham
... home, late in the afternoon, through the sweet-smelling woods, that are beginning to hum with the voice of thousands of insects. My troop of volunteer workmen is increased to five; five lads working for my wages after they have done their task work; and this evening, to my no small amazement, Driver Bran came down to join them for an hour, after working all day at Five Pound, which certainly shows zeal ...
— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble
... Alabama. There have been many influences to retard immigration, the fear of fevers, malaria and typhoid, commonly associated with low countries, and the dread of overflows. Because of the lack of the labor force to develop the country planters have been led to offer higher wages, better houses, etc. There is about the farming district an air of prosperity which is not noticeable to the East. The country is particularly adapted to cotton, the yield is heavier, about a bale ...
— The Negro Farmer • Carl Kelsey
... poems and personalities—born expressers of itself, its spirit alone, to radiate in subtle ways, not only in art, but the practical and familiar, in the transactions between employers and employed persons, in business and wages, and sternly in the army and navy, and revolutionizing them. I find nowhere a scope profound enough, and radical and objective enough, either for aggregates or individuals. The thought and identity of a poetry in America ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman
... all!" exclaimed Valentine. "I thought you had made off with work and wages both! What did you ...
— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald
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