Gains

Examples

• It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That is what happens when you telephone, but when you realize it the mystery gains rather than decreases. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Hence he was not ready to frame excuses for this deliberate pursuit of small gains. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In 1847, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I've no doubt his visit to England was paid for out of his ill-gotten gains. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• When the seeds in our fruits become atrophied, the fruit itself gains largely in size and quality. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Why should you leave all the gains to the gluttons, knaves, and impostors? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Him Arthur now showed, with pains and care, the state of their gains and losses, responsibilities and prospects. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But it gains immensely in interest when we consider that it succeeded in its scientific purpose. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It gains in poignancy, but loses reality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They are so accordingly, and their superior gains make them, in most places, be considered as a superior rank of people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She wished him all the happiness which he merited out of his ill-gotten gains. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• First, let honesty and industry be thy constant companions; and, Secondly, spend one penny less than thy clear gains. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The wind strikes the front, but rarely touches the back of the plane, and so gains a great leverage that adds materially to its power to overturn the machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Where the German farmer gains $2. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A diligent judge gains a comfortable, though moderate revenue, by his office; an idle one gets little more than his salary. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He gains favour by his mild disposition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The gains of alien merchants were looked upon more unfavourably than those of English merchants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The landlord gains both ways; by the increase of the produce, and by the diminution of the labour which must be maintained out of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This is an obvious truism, which however gains meaning when translated into educational equivalents. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His extraordinary gains arise from the high price which is paid for his private labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The person who finally pays this tax, therefore, gains by the application more than he loses by the payment of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The exclusion from his clubs would mean ruin to Moran, who lived by his ill-gotten card-gains. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• If he cannot, he contents himself with a pint; and, as a penny saved is a penny got, he thus gains a farthing by his temperance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Why should you leave all the gains that are to be got to my proprietor and the like of him? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But in dealing with the young, the fact of association itself as an immediate human fact, gains in importance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And men are blamed for pride and bad temper when the lion and serpent element in them disproportionately grows and gains strength? Plato. The Republic.
• In short, the sound h-a-t gains meaning in precisely the same way that the thing hat gains it, by being used in a given way. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The government neither gains nor loses by the additional tax, which is applied altogether to remedy the inequalities arising from the old assessment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Editor: Tod