Livelihood

Examples

• They were virtuous young men, and lost no opportunity that fell in their way to make their livelihood. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Papin’s boat was said to have been used on the Fulda at Cassel, and was reported to have been destroyed by bargemen, who feared that it would deprive them of a livelihood. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Free men who had no means of livelihood would even sell themselves into slavery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the workers in cheap clothing shops organized to prevent the introduction of the machines, claiming that they would destroy their livelihood. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Then you never heard of the saying of Phocylides, that as soon as a man has a livelihood he should practise virtue? Plato. The Republic.
• I see no more light than if I were sealed in a rock, so that for me to pretend to offer a man a livelihood would be to do a dishonest thing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They earn but a very scanty subsistence, who endeavour to get their livelihood by either of those trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Well, well, said the old clerk; we all have our various ways of gaining a livelihood. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• His carving is his livelihood. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Right Aspiration, Right Effort, and Right Livelihood distinguished his career. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Right Speech, Right Conduct, and Right Livelihood, need no expansion here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To-day there is little temptation to the telegrapher to go to distant parts of the country on the chance that he may secure a livelihood at the key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As livelihood and leisure are opposed, so are theory and practice, intelligence and execution, knowledge and activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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