59 Verbs to Use for the Word earnings

HUSBAND AND WIFE: Wife controls own earnings and has full control of own property; but she cannot mortgage her real and personal property or alienate it without husband's consent.

I worked steadily for some weeks, at the same time spending my earnings between the "crap" game and the "Club."

Unfortunately, however, in order to increase his earnings, he entered secretly into partnership with the firms of Constable and the brothers Ballantyne, as printer-publishers,a sad mistake, indeed, and the cause of that tragedy which closed the life of Scotland's greatest writer.

His improvidence in giving to beggars and in squandering his earnings on expensive rooms, garments, and dinners, however, kept him always in debt.

But since the earnings of these girls depend entirely on the amount they sell, this direct result of your action, prompted by humane sentiment, will be to reduce still further these miserable earnings; that is to say, you increase the suffering of the very persons whose lot you desire to alleviate.

She felt that what they had was not taken from her, and if she could gain in her little way by receiving her just earnings from the general prosperity of others, she would not complain.

I hold that it is brotherly duty to refrain from serving his brother and sharing his earnings with him.

But almost the most interesting group of all was one of Cornish miners, from the well-known old Redruth and Camborne county, and the old sacred hill of Carn-brea, who were going to seek their fortunes awhile in silver mines among the Andes, leaving wives and children at home, and hoping, 'if it please God, to do some good out there,' and send their earnings home.

Had he been a man of less honor, he might have taken advantage of the bankrupt law, which would have left his future earnings free from past claims; but he refused to take any step that would remove his obligation to pay the debt.

"Just the advantage of not having all your hard earnings taken away by an iniquitous tax.

To suppose that Philemon has a pecuniary interest in the return of Onesimus to work without wages, implies that the master habitually steals the slave's earnings; but if he loses nothing by the flight, he has not been wronged by it.

The rich give to the poor, but the poor usually save up their earnings to be able to purchase a sheep to kill on this day.

I cannot describe to a free man, what a proud manly feeling came over me when I hired to Mr. C. and made my first bargain, nor when I assumed the dignity of collecting my own earnings.

Meantime he had no weekly money coming in regularly, and his wife and family had often to assist him, diminishing their own earnings at the same time; while he was in the dilemma that if he did hauling he must employ and pay a man to work on the 'farm,' and if he worked himself he could not go out with his team.

I rung Cudjingie shed and blued it in a week, i.e., he was the ringer or fastest shearer of the shed, and he dissipated the earnings in a single week’s drunkenness.

These privileges are possible because of the method of distributing earnings which will now be described.

The weavers used to keep Monday as a day of leisure; and the public-houses were crowded from morning till night with men and women, who drank away their earnings to the last penny.

Long hours spent over the washtub, to eke out their scanty earnings, had rendered his wifeonce the "Fay" of the "Love Songs"both muscular and short-tempered.

Having fulfilled the object for which he started in business, and for which he had toiled like a slave ten years, he conceived that nothing could be more sensible than to retire from it, make room for other deserving men, and enjoy his ample earnings in the ways which pleased him most, before an old age of money getting had deadened his five senses, his intellect, and his heart.

A friend to the rights of man seems to feel no alarm at the idea that one who exhausts his earnings in the grog-shop, should have an influence in elections in proportion to strength of his lungs, or his activity in intrigue, but he is greatly agitated from an apprehension that men who have property to protect, will not promote the well being of society.

They filch away the earnings of the laboring classes.

Wishing to found his family in Florence and to fund the earnings of his life there, he naturally assumed a courteous attitude.

As soon as he has given them his earnings on which to keep house they are strengthened in this belief.

There are many striving people among the factory operatives, who help up the family earnings by keeping a little shop in this way.

I hired myself out at first to Timothy Chapman, for five weeks, the earnings of which time I put carefully by me.

59 Verbs to Use for the Word  earnings