Earning

Examples

• I stimulated myself into such a heat, and got so out of breath, that I felt as if I had been earning I don't know how much. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Perfectly resigned to his discharge, he devoted himself to getting well, preparing for business, and earning a home for Meg. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Say there is anything again earning it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Tupman had no objection to earning the reputation at so cheap a rate: so he looked very knowing, and smiled mysteriously. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As often as I can, said Charley, opening her eyes and smiling, because of earning sixpences and shillings! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We lived so simply and quietly that the income which I was now steadily earning sufficed for all our wants. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I leave you to judge what a damp way of earning a living mine is. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• So Jo was satisfied with the investment of her prize money, and fell to work with a cheery spirit, bent on earning more of those delightful checks. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I am making no money--earning nothing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• What we loosely call syndicalism is a tendency that no statesman can overlook to-day without earning the jeers of his children. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I paced up and down the room, humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Nor was Podder behindhand in earning laurels wherewith to garnish himself and Muggleton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The earning capacity of the phonograph then, as largely now, lay in its exhibition qualities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Now, this is better than 'earning a living,' as you say. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The life or death of a patient may be determined by the patient's diet, and the working and earning capacity of a father depends largely upon his prosaic three meals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is worthy of note, as to the promptness with which the Edison stations became paying properties, that four of the metered stations were earning upward of 15 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I will devote the next two days to earning what we want for the week to come, and on the third day I go to Hampshire. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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