Salary

Examples

• So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Department of Public Works requires that you should have five inspectors to look after this work, and that their salary shall be $5 per day, payable at the end of each week. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He walked over to me, and said: 'Young man, I want you to work the Louisville wire nights; your salary will be $125. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At the end of the interview the owner had offered Edison the position of manager at a salary of three hundred dollars a month, and Edison had accepted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr Boffin takes Mr John Rokesmith at his word, in postponing to some indefinite period, the consideration of salary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum--thrice my present salary--if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The less the salary the greater the honour. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Madame raised my salary; but she got thrice the work out of me she had extracted from Mr. Wilson, at half the expense. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This Parisienne was always in debt; her salary being anticipated, not only in dress, but in perfumes, cosmetics, confectionery, and condiments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I really cannot venture to name her salary to you, Miss Woodhouse. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence: one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to, even for a salary. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In 1874 the Government conferred upon Pasteur a life annuity of twelv e thousand francs, an equivalent of his salary as Professor of Chemistry at the Sorb onne. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I shall have my salary to earn; you will have nothing to do but to enjoy and attract. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And the course is all the clearer from there being no salary in question to put my persistence in an equivocal light. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The position carried a salary of $25 per month. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The mill shall find salaries for a master and mistress, and the squire or the clothier shall give a treat once a quarter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We must then pay the salaries in order to enrich ourselves with these places. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Those masters do not appear to have had either salaries or exclusive privileges of any kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If the salaries of officers, and other incidents, therefore, amount to more than ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The fees annually paid to lawyers and attorneys, amount, in every court, to a much greater sum than the salaries of the judges. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Now that a reliable formula is at hand a quantity of this Wonder Liniment can be prepared at a minimum cost without paying for bottles, labels, advertising, salaries, rents, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The circumstance of those salaries being paid by the crown, can nowhere much diminish the necessary expense of a law-suit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the perquisites of custom-house officers are everywhere much greater than their salaries; at some ports more than double or triple those salaries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Then the State came to provide classrooms for technical instruction and to pay the salaries of the teachers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

Typist: Willard