"Earnings" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this matter. We know how readily they supply what is needed for the maintenance of schools; not only those who are wealthy, but those, also, who are of slender means and poor; and it is beautiful to see how, often from the earnings of their poverty, they willingly contribute to the education ...
— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 • Various
... has attained to a position like yours and mine not to have provided himself with a stout navy of his own. One never knows when a recall may be sent, and, through lack of these precautions, a life's earnings may very well be lost ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... has been a good year; we bought the wine cheap, we sell it dear, without counting what we get for nothing from the carters; we buy a cow with our earnings, and where ...
— Whosoever Shall Offend • F. Marion Crawford
... that your father would not like to live upon your earnings, and so forth. But in town we shall be ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... shall not say a word about you, until you return with your earnings. But if you found the fishing business dull, surely you might have come to us, Dan. Any volunteers here for His Majesty's service?" Scudamore raised his voice, with the usual question. "Good pay, good victuals, fine promotion, and prize-money, with the glory of fighting for their native ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
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