Yet he was a cool-headed fellow, always alert for that which might bring him gain.

Will he tell me whether, in his after life, when he was the owner of broad acres, fine houses, piles of stocks in paying corporations, and huge deposits in solvent banks, he ever felt richer or prouder when counting his gains, and contemplating the aggregate of his wealth, than he did when he pulled on his first pair of boots?)

This is very different from a love of making dogs fight, and aggravating and making gain by their pluck.

In age I search, and only find A poor unfruitful gain, Grave Wisdom stalking slow behind, Oppress'd with loads of pain.

My blood boils, when I am told that a merchant durst not enjoy his honest gains, for fear of losing them by the rapacity of power.

He collected his debts, foreclosed his mortgages when necessary, drove tight bargains for his wood and other saleable articles, and neglected nothing that he thought would tend to increase his gains.

" CANADIANS HOLD THEIR GAINS

But from the beginning of accurate statistics we know that the duration of life in any nation is a fair index of its progress in civilization, Quetelet gives statistics, more or less reliable, from every nation of Northern Europe, showing a gain of ten to twenty-five per cent, during the last century.

Pursue with avidity the beaten road which leads to popular honors and sordid gain, but relinquish all thoughts of a voyage for which you are totally unprepared.

'Tis of thy golden locks that love has many a noose entwined, And souls of free men at thy sight full oft are stricken blind; Yet tell me, proud one, tell me, what pleasure canst thou gain From showing to the world a heart so fickle and so vain?

In contrast with the pardoner and "sompnour" we see the poor parson, full of goodness, charity, and love,a true shepherd and no mercenary, who waited upon no pomp and sought no worldly gains, happy only in the virtues which he both taught and lived.

Malicious ones insinuated that Simoun did not dare remain alone, since without the General's support he did not care to expose himself to the vengeance of the many wretches he had exploited, all the more reason for which was the fact that the General who was coming was reported to be a model of rectitude and might make him disgorge his gains.

He sows, he reaps the harvest's gain; We share the toil, and share the grain.

In both cases the corruption has come from power-loving priests, who have sought to frighten and control the people by incomprehensible dogmas and ostentations, mysterious ceremonies, and found their advantage in the superstition of the multitude,each new divinity, each new mystery meaning a gain for them.

The poll is just like the game called, "He who loses gains, and he who gains loses!"

From it I myself have derived no gain except that I caused my country to survive, but you are both preserved and in your sober senses.

The interview with Bob West had made him uneasy, for the merchant's cold, crafty nature rendered him an opponent who would stick at nothing to protect his ill-gotten gains.

Even where a middleman does make large profits, we are not justified in describing such gain as excessive or unfair, unless we are prepared to challenge the claim of "free competition" to determine the respective money values of industrial services.

The measure adopted of establishing trading houses among them and of furnishing them necessaries in exchange for their commodities at such moderate prices as leave no gain, but cover us from loss, has the most conciliatory and useful effect on them, and is that which will best secure their peace and good will.

Said she to herself, "Tis clear gain, This rarity, fresh from the water, Will save my white mittens the stain And me from the trouble of slaughter!"

Roman Wealth The whole gain from these immense transactions of the Roman capitalists flowed in the long run to Rome; for, much as they went abroad, they were not easily induced to settle permanently there, but sooner or later returned to Rome, either realizing their gains and investing them in Italy, or continuing to carry on business from Rome as a centre by means of the capital and connections which they had acquired.

And so, of course, he blew in vain; For all his trou-ble he made no bub-ble, But Tom was brave and tried a-gain.

The loss of a present from should never exceed the gain of a present to.

Engrossed as he was in recording his gains, he could not refrain from lifting his eyes now and again to feast them on that rotund little body, like a goblet set on two pillars.

Though little was their hire, and light their gain, Yet somewhat to their share he threw; Fed from his hand, they sung and flew, Like birds of Paradise that lived on morning dew.