16 Metaphors for income

"To-day," writes Müller on 7th September, "our income altogether was about £300a plain proof that we do not wait on the Lord in vain; for every donation we receive is a direct answer to prayer, because we never ask a single human being for anything."

The king's income, under the civil list, was a "conto of reis" a day, or something over £80,000 a year.

His income is twenty-five to fifty thousand, and yet out of poverty he shoots himself.

She was entirely unpractised in the ways of the world, and was besides in very narrow circumstances, her only available income being the interest on $10,000, the sum left by Judge Grimké to each of his children.

Thus the income upon which Steele married was rather more than a thousand a-year, and Miss Scurlock's mother had an estate of about £330 a-year.

The income of the bread-winners in the Colony and the wealth of the people per head, are now nearly the highest in the world.

Income from property ownership, by contrast, is unearned income.

Income, however, had not been his object in loading himself with such a vast property, as Washington believed that he was certain to become rich.

When Mr. Walling was at this church the income was about 260 pounds a year; taking everything into account, it is now worth upwards of 400 pounds.

" "Living at the rate of thousands a year, when his income is just so many hundreds!

The first one had been free, but admission was charged for the later lectures and this income was the first revenue Bell had received for his invention.

His income was barely three hundred dollars a yeareked out to this amount by some small pay for offices connected with the church, of which he was a prominent member.

An interesting book has lately appeared in America, called "Income," in which the writer, Dr. Scott Nearing, of the University of Pennsylvania, draws a very sharp distinction between service income and property income, implying, if I read him aright, that property income is an unjust extortion.

£60,000 a year, her estimated income, besides a costly collection of jewels,one of the most valuable in Europe,were a great property, when few noblemen at that time had over £30,000 a year.

She was entirely unpractised in the ways of the world, and was besides in very narrow circumstances, her only available income being the interest on $10,000, the sum left by Judge Grimké to each of his children.

Nevertheless, the income of Cosmo was never more than 600,000 francs, (50,000 gold florins,) while his fortune was never thought to exceed three millions of francs, or six hundred thousand dollars.

16 Metaphors for  income