1 The mismanagement of the state road especially infuriated the taxpayers for, out of the earnings of the road, was to come the money for free schools.
2 The bank is the universal government credit-account, the ledger in which every individual's earnings and spendings are balanced.
3 Furniture maker; twenty years in the city; worth ten thousand dollars, all his own earnings; a Baptist.
4 She had promised to love him for better or worse, and then she, his wife, had reproached him with his poverty, after spending his earnings recklessly.
5 The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day in a little house rented by myself.
6 In order, however, that our superior position might not be compromised thereby, a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf, in to which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped.
7 He had calculated that his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to a hundred and seventy-one francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 8 When the war was over, a plantation could earn an honest living.
9 Scarlett did not realize that all the rules of the game had been changed and that honest labor could no longer earn its just reward.
10 And what she could earn seemed so pitiably small.
11 And I am perfectly well able to earn my own living.
12 And I can't even go off and earn my living again.
13 , I had to earn part of my way, and when I wasn't doing that or studying, I guess I was roughhousing.
14 She will be glad to earn something, and it will be a good time to end misunderstandings.
15 Robert is very well in a way, to give up all the money he can earn to the family, and keep the barest pittance for himself.