Profitable

Examples

• It furnishes profitable amusement to the young, and satisfactory aid to the nervous and paralytic. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You need be in no hurry to hear, he said: let me frankly tell you, I have nothing eligible or profitable to suggest. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Part of what had before been employed in other trades, is necessarily withdrawn from them, and turned into some of the new and more profitable ones. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The crop we are going to raise is a profitable one, and Jo laughed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Again the old question returns upon us: Is justice or injustice the more profitable? Plato. The Republic.
• And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If all the pupils are little ragamuffins, I'm afraid your crop won't be profitable in a worldly sense, Mrs. Bhaer. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My master, finding how profitable I was likely to be, resolved to carry me to the most considerable cities of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Through the greater part of Scotland, therefore, it cannot yet be even so profitable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is preferred, as most profitable, to that of corn. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Serve a friend with it, and you may know the end of it too,--but it's a less pleasant and profitable end. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Not directly profitable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The public was astonished at the cheapness and good quality of the work, but it was its immense sale which rendered it profitable; for some years it amounted to 180,000 copies weekly. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Varro and Columella assure us, that it was a most profitable article. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They had long wished to share in the profitable traffic of the Venetians, and this last discovery opened to them a probable prospect of doing so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It will, therefore, be sent abroad, in order to seek that profitable employment which it cannot find at home. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Then, my blessed Thrasymachus, injustice can never be more profitable than justice. Plato. The Republic.
• If he was an economist, he generally found it more profitable to employ his annual savings in new purchases than in the improvement of his old estate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Service, however (with a few limited reservations, genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Have you posts of profitable pecuniary emolument? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The price was enormously high, and made successful smuggling very profitable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Later Boulton and Watt’s engines were installed, and with the most profitable results. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Secondly, it's not made out to me how it's likely to be profitable, after all. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the discussion that followed he suggested several kinds of work which he had in his mind, and which might prove profitable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It becomes gradually more and more difficult to find within the country a profitable method of employing any new capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Is a counting-house profitable? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The trade of a butcher is a brutal and an odious business; but it is in most places more profitable than the greater part of common trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As the war progressed the daily newspaper sales became very profitable, and I gave up the vegetable store. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Though the one employment, therefore, may to him perhaps be less profitable than the other, it cannot be less advantageous to his country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Neither the materials necessary for supporting their useful machines and instruments of trade, their profitable buildings, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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