112 Verbs to Use for the Word salary

From the inquiries he made during the course of his visitations he was astonished to find that the gaolers received no salary, and that they lived on what they could make out of the prisoners.

In the meantime we will be glad to pay your missionary salary for three more months.

If he can only curb his natural tendency toward frivolity and jocoseness, I am in hopes that he will be able to draw his salary as promptly and efficiently as though he were a younger man.

It was one of Miss Mitchell's boasts that she had earned a salary for over fifty years, without any intermission.

The owners of the show appreciate genius, and they have raised pa's salary and given him full charge of the menagerie.

Thinking that Wild Bill would be quite an acquisition to the troupe, we wrote to him at Springfield, Missouri, offering him a large salary if he would play with us that winter.

1855 "On May 9th it was notified to me (I think through the Hydrographer) that the Admiralty were not unwilling to increase my salary.

He gets a pitiful salary, but they can't pay more, and there's no money at all, nor any accommodations, for any special attention to the newcomers.

He would have given a year's salary to have Mock Hen safely up the river, even on a conviction for manslaughter in the third, for the newspapers were making his life a burden with their constant references to the seeming inability of the police department and district attorney's office to prevent the recurrence of feud killings in the Chinatown districts.

Andif you will pardon me, sir,I do not think it would be honest for me to accept this generous salary and give nothing in return.

As this was to be dangerous work, on account of the Indians, who were riding all over that section of the country, and as I would be obliged to go from five to ten miles from the road each day to hunt the buffaloes, accompanied by only one man with a light wagon for the transportation of the meat, I of course demanded a large salary.

Occasionally SPIFFKINS eked out his salary by writing letters to the provincial press.

Macpherson was honored as a literary explorer; he was given an official position, carrying a salary for life; and at his death, in 1796, he was buried in Westminster Abbey.

"We were clerks in one business house, only Selincourt was above me, and taking a much higher salary; but if anything happened to move him, I knew that his desk would be offered to me.

I'll fix the salary too and make out your cheque for the full month.

Every time they get a success here in town they start to reduce salaries.

" "But, Squire GREEN," said he, with a downcast air, "H. WARD BEECHER says pine apples grows on pine trees, and as long as brother B. spends all his salary in edicatin hisself for a farmer, he orter know.

When, in proof of their appreciation, they doubled his salary and would have trebled it again"Nay," said he, "it is but my duty that I have done.

How could a pastor collect his salary if the church should refuse to pay it?

" It appears that the old governor (who is now in Morocco) positively refuses any salary or presents; his Excellency is a man of some small property, and finds this plan answers best.

It should be observed, that during twenty-five years that he was in the service of France, he had sought for and beaten the English every where; that he gained the famous battle of Robeck, and chastised the Flemish; that he enjoyed for twelve years the salary and appointments of Constable; and that, moreover, his landed estate, (which included many castles inherited from his ancestors, in Bretagne and Poitou,) was very considerable.

He was supposed to have money, for he commanded a good salary, and was sober and faithful.

A Bombay pay-list of January, 1716, shows us the official salaries at that time.

a year, which is, indeed, more than the regular stipend of a commissioner of excise; but, it must be remembered, that the commentators have a much more difficult and important employment, and can expect their salaries but for the short space of five years; whereas a commissioner (unless he imprudently suffers himself to be carried away by a whimsical tenderness for his country) has an establishment for life.

He had persuaded the church to continue the salary; every day he had sent flowers, and grapes, and wine, and game, and everything he could think of that papa could eat; and, what was kindest of all, he had come almost every day to talk with him and cheer him up.

112 Verbs to Use for the Word  salary