Pecuniary

Examples

• Pecuniary remuneration is offered to me--with the want of feeling peculiar to the rich. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Now, about the pecuniary arrangements between us--do tell me--are they satisfactory? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is only, ma'am,' Mr Sampson explained, in exceedingly low spirits, 'because, in a pecuniary sense, I am painfully conscious of my unworthiness. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Whether they received any pecuniary reward for pleading, or delivering their opinions? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It is impossible to refer intelligibly to this document without first entering into certain particulars in relation to the bride's pecuniary affairs. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So far as regarded Rachel Verinder's pecuniary interests, it was, word for word, the exact counterpart of the first Will. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Pecuniary wages and profit, indeed, are everywhere in Europe extremely different, according to the different employments of labour and stock. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Unhappily there is more, much more, which the unrelenting pecuniary pressure of Mr. Blake's cheque obliges me to tell. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If he was a lost man, what would become of our pecuniary interests? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The nature of those circumstances is such, that they make up for a small pecuniary gain in some, and counterbalance a great one in others. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He took Clennam's card and appropriate pecuniary compliment. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He replied that he did, but that he desired pecuniary assistance to carry out his plans. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Why not make a pecuniary sacrifice? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It depended entirely on his pecuniary position, of which I knew nothing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This expenditure bankrupted them, as the machines were not at once remunerative, and parliament refused to grant them pecuniary assistance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He would then have suffered under the pecuniary distresses which, because they are removed, he now reckons as nothing. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Nor did either of the two, for some few seconds, make any effort to recover himself; both remaining in a kind of pecuniary swoon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The pecuniary recompence, therefore, of painters and sculptors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more liberal; and it is so accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In point of pecuniary gain, all things considered, they are generally under-recompensed, as I shall endeavour to shew by and by. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Have you posts of profitable pecuniary emolument? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• For in schools, occupations are not carried on for pecuniary gain but for their own content. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The pecuniary resources of Another were, as they usually are, of a very limited nature. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You are over twenty-one, and you have not the slightest pecuniary interest in Lady Verinder's Will. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It may, too, be of some use to the public, in regulating the pecuniary reward of some of its inferior servants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Not the slightest pecuniary interest in Lady Verinder's Will. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Lord Palmerston also, one fine day, did me a pecuniary service without my having applied to him for it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• On the night of the birthday, therefore, Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite's pecuniary position was this. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The respect paid to the profession, too, makes some compensation even to them for the meanness of their pecuniary recompence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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