2985 examples of income in sentences

Thus Thoreau, when he, "by surveying, carpentry and day-labor of various other kinds," had earned $13.34, was doing income-work, the work by which he had to live.

Unless he or she can do income-work, he or she is not economically independent; unless he can do universal work, he is not socially and spiritually free.

Women sayour modern daughters, wives, and mothers: "In the home, we do income-work for which we do not receive income.

For other work, men and women may or may not receive a large personal income, but their work is recognized, they are a part of the best social circles, and when they die, a city or a nation grieves.

But his fortune was not large enough to tempt Crochard, for the Grand Duke really has nothing but the income from his family estates, and you may well believe that he spends all of it.

Inheritor of large holdings in Eastern cotton-mill stock, he had returned from abroad on the death of his father, to look into this source of his very ample income.

Here the differences of income, of pursuits, and the idiosyncrasies of taste come in; and more than all, not only are the circumstances originally different, but constantly varying.

My ambition is not at present higher than to write nonsense for the playhouses, to eke out a something contracted income.

They had the usual expenses going on, with increasing rates, and a fearfully lessened income, still growing less.

Several applicants were refused relief on its being proved that they were already in receipt of considerably more income than the usual amount allowed by the Board to those who have nothing to depend upon.

Of course there are always some who, having lost that fine edge of feeling to which this kind of relief is revolting, are not unwilling to live idly upon the rates as much and as long as possible at any time, and who will even descend to pitiful schemes to wring from this source whatever miserable income they can get.

Seeing that house, a stranger would never dream that the family was living on an average income of less than sixpence a head per week.

They had no work, no income whatever, save what came from the Relief Committee.

For thirteen weeks they had lived upon less than one shilling a head per week, and I am not sure that they did not pay the rent out of that; and now the income of the whole eleven is under 16s., with rent to pay.

"Well, an' what income have you now?"

a week for the seven,not bad, compared with the income of very many others.

" After a little more talk, we bade the old couple good day, and went to peep at the cellar where they had crept stealthily away, for the sake of keeping their expenses close to their lessening income.

a week for the two first weeks of the wife's confinement, but now their income amounted to a little less than one shilling a head per week.

Their income was, as usual in relief cases, about one shilling a head per week.

On the surface they seem much the same; and they are reckoned up according to number, income, and the like.

It will help them to raise more crops and do better work and earn a better income.

The necessity of practising economy should be evident to every one, whether in the possession of an income no more than sufficient for a family's requirements, or of a large fortune, which puts financial adversity out of the question.

CHARITY AND BENEVOLENCE ARE DUTIES which a mistress owes to herself as well as to her fellow-creatures; and there is scarcely any income so small, but something may be spared from it, even if it be but "the widow's mite."

The rent of a house, it has been said, should not exceed one-eighth of the whole income of its occupier; and, as a general rule, we are disposed to assent to this estimate, although there may be many circumstances which would not admit of its being considered infallible.

"Mr. Powis is no fortune-hunter, Mrs. Bloomfield," she said, steadily; "his whole conduct for three years has been opposed to such a character; and, then, though not absolutely rich, perhaps, he has a gentleman's income, and is removed from the necessity of being reduced to such an act of baseness.

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