Earnings

Examples

• Most of the tramping tinkers used to come and lodge at our place; that was the best part of my master's earnings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His family at home sent Howe a little money before his earnings were entirely spent, and he used this to buy passage for his wife and children back to the United States. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Furniture maker; twenty years in the city; worth ten thousand dollars, all his own earnings; a BaptiSt. C----. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The gross earnings for the year 1898 were $1,249,558,724. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I'd paid him truly every cent of my earnings,--and they all say I worked well. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He devised a pegging machine, and out of his scanty earnings and at odd hours, with much pain and labour, and by borrowing money, he finally completed it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the annual report for 1898 of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York, its statement shows that for that city alone the gross earnings were $2,898,021. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I suppose your father wanted your earnings, said old Mr. Featherstone, with his usual power of unpleasant surmise, when Mary returned to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The net earnings were $389,666,474. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But it's hard to run away with your earnings, eh child. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My friend Ralph had kept me poor; he owed me about twenty-seven pounds, which I was now never likely to receive; a great sum out of my small earnings! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The following year there was such a telephone boom that the Bell Company’s system was doubled, and the gross earnings reached more than a million dollars. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Well, you would not have me risk all my hard earnings in Athens, would you? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The gross earnings of the company were $5,760,106. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The telephone wires are eight times greater than the telegraph wires, and their earnings six times as great. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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