"As to that matter, some who are lucky succeed very well, and the rest make a living by it.

Until rather near the end of the eighteenth century, those who made their living in England by writing were chiefly publishers' hacks, fellows of the Dunciad sucking their quills in garrets and selling their labor for a crust, for the reading public was too small to support them.

He was ordained deacon in 1870 and priest in 1873, and in 1875 accepted the living of Embleton, in Northumberland.

The General regretted to hear this, and advised me not to take the step, for I was leaving a comfortable little home, where I was sure of making a good living for my family; while, on the other hand, I was embarking upon a sea of uncertainty.

The first of the time of living at my master's own place, I was pretty much employed in the house at carding wool and other household business.

When he was but six years old he commenced to earn his living as a cowherd, and by his seventh year had received all the schooling which he was destined to havetwo separate periods of three months.

But, as he truly says, we couldn't make a living with the Tribune, even if you gave us the use of the plant.

What manner of chap was this same Obed, to be able to wrest a living from a bounteous Nature in the clever way he did?

After a slight pause, he replied, that he got his living on the water.

To him it appeared there was no world out of Verona's walls, no living out of the sight of Juliet.

Our present duty is to bring peace, industry, intelligence, high ideals, and spiritual living to our new countrymen.

It is an easier matter for one person to readjust her living than for a whole family to change.

Little wonder was it that in the early months of the war there was some riotous living among soldiers' wives!

I wish some one would tip me off to some way of earning an honest living without having to resort to a sock full of sand or a strong arm.

How nicely, now, you and I might get a living off this 'ere manor, if the landlords was served like the French ones was.

Fancy his living like that!

Wrote a note to Hardinge, suggesting to him the expediency of calling upon Dr. Philpotts and placing before him the hopelessness of his keeping Stanhope, the damage to himself of a vote of Parliament, and to the Church from the example of Parliamentary interference, leading him to propose the exchange of Stanhope for a living near Exeter, and I mentioned Dr. Barnes.

Hurd, in a letter written in 1768, mentions that the death of a Dr. Atwell threw a good living into his hands.

Northern India had great attractions to those hardy nomadic people, who found it so difficult to get a living during the long winters of their primeval home.

"It isn't so much the sorrow that counts or the joy either, but just the living through it.

A watch was set over it for a certain time, lest boats should cross over, and the dead person should drag the living after him.

These be the wayes by which without reward Livings in court he gotten, though full hard; For nothing there is done without a fee: 515 The courtier needes must recompenced bee With a benevolence, or have in gage [Gage, pledge.

An annual tax was also imposed on all livings above £300, to be appropriated to the augmentation of small benefices.

No doubt we shall all fly home at last, like a flock of pigeons that were once turned loose snow-white from the sky, and made to descend and fight one another and fight everything else for a poor living amid soot and mire.

One reason why the Jews do not care to return to Palestine and Asia Minor is that they cannot get a living amongst Christians and Mohammedans, a plain fact which those eminent and charitable European Jews who are trying to draw their fellow-believers eastward would do well to consider.