In consequence of this, Mr Stuart wrought with success at both departments of his business, and while in the one he coined thousands, in the other he earned more than the average wages of a working man.
In their mutual intercourse the audacious adventurer often had the upper hand of the man who had lately possessed a well-earned reputation.
Faustus, it seems, had earned himself much good will among the younger members of the university by his agreeable manners, by his willingness to oblige them, and by the extraordinary spectacles with which he occasionally diverted them.
Some great defect blemished the lives of all the illustrious men who have justly earned imperishable glory.
Their friend was to expose the corruptions of the clergy, and to give battle to the great arch enemy who built St. Peter's Church from their hard-earned pittances.
His early years were spent at Mansfield, in extreme poverty, and he earned his bread by singing hymns before the houses of the village.
And he's now a Commander in the Royal Navy, all earned by his own bravery!
She was more thankful than she knew how to express towards any one who made her mother happy; as has been already said, the contributing to Bell Robson's pleasures earned Philip more of his wife's smiles than anything else.
When the purified heart has realized Truth it is then called upon to make the last, the greatest and holiest sacrifice, the sacrifice of the well-earned enjoyment of Truth.
At first I earned it for them By working hard all day, But somehow times were bad, sir, And the work all fell away.
Yes, Totty, darling; but papa earned money enough to afford to make his little pets happy at least once a year.
From his earliest years he exhibited signs of superiority and genius, and earned a great reputation for his verses and oratory.
He would haveearned the difference if he had brought me what was due.
With her little family Mrs. Stewart had emigrated to the camp in which we find them, and there she earned a precarious livelihood by washing clothes for the miners.
Most officers who went over with the First and Second Divisions had friends of equal civilian rank with themselves in their commands and they desired to see these men rewarded with commissions earned in the field.
In the region of Pertice and Col del Orso, the Twelfth Army had reached the outskirts of the village of Quero, taken Sequisine, and earned Monte Cesen.
Mr. Cole is a carpenter, and has earned very good wages.
The masters were going to share with the men; but they were made distinctly to understand, that, unless the mills earned something over and above this, there could be no surplus, no dividends.
That money belongs to the people of Yerbury, who have earned it, and saved it; and I say thieving and roguery have more to do with hard times than 'surplus of labor.
Some time, when they hadearned this glorious vacation, they would take it hungering with the healthy appetite of a well-trained soul.
They had earned full wages and something beside; and, though wages had not reached the high point of good times, on the other hand they had not fallen below a reasonable standard, even with the bad year.
It didn't pay to do this or that, so they earned and spent.
Well, so it is: Mrs. Connelly earned the money that bought it, and I am glad she didn't let Dennis go on in business until he spent every cent of it.
The house is always clean, the children are well and rosy, and play about a good deal, and Christine last year earnedthirty dollars.
Martha worked for two years, and earned a good deal of money.
So wrote Oliver Goldsmith; and surely among those who have earned the world's gratitude by this ministration he must be accorded a conspicuous place.
There had been no open discovery: her mother was interested only in starting her off on time each morning for the jewelry store where she earned fourteen dollars a week.
His physical vigour in old age earned him the popular nickname of the Grand Old Man.
Every man worked for all that was in him and when they earned a dollar for themselves they earned one for us.
At this time of the year all of the trappers and hunters were staying at the fort with nothing to do but eat, drink and spend their money that they had earned the winter before.
Of course, I did not accept their hard-earned money.
So far her good fortune had prevailed in averting the punishment but too well earned by her past life.
Besides, I have earned but little by my trade for these two long years; my time has been thrown away, and I am poorer than ever.
One result was that his were picked men, and they more thanearned their higher pay.
On the other hand, Daylight could have taken in fully a dozen horses to pasture, which would have earned him a dollar and a half per head per month.
When she first arrived from Circle City, she had earned her living by washing clothes.
And usually in the machine with him was the ten thousand and more dollars that had been earned by his ferries and railways the day before.
Dan buoys, seen in the half-light of the early morning or evening, are apt to be deceptive, particularly when the imagination is stirred at the thought of the substantial honorarium to be earned for authentic information of the enemy.
It was a paying game, for the bluejacket is always free with his hard-earned money.
When he granted the men an extra forty-eight hours' leave on his own responsibility, and because he considered they had earned it by their good behaviour, he never told them so.
But yet, in reality, bluejackets are among the kindest-hearted men alive, and the sight of a howling infant in a street will attract the hard-earned coppers from their pockets like steel filings to a magnet.
The little gifts, which had cost Buttings and his wife many of their hard-earned shillings, were their way of showing that they had not forgotten.
Of the same age as myself, Gibbons had earned for himself a well-founded reputation for viciousness.
Corporations are not in the habit of paying liberal salaries unless every cent of them is earned by the sweat of your brow.
It was during the fighting on this day, a Sunday, that there occurred the episode which earned for the London Scottish Territorials the special acknowledgment of the Commander-in-chief.
Among the British troops it hadearned the name of "Port Arthur.
She had long before earned this sobriquet, when coming to me for help out of her misfortunes, beginning each story of woe with “Trooble agin.
It was as an Orientalist, however, that he had meantime earned the highest reputation, his knowledge of Arabic and Hebrew being almost unrivalled and his gift for languages exceptional.
As a physician he seems to have done little, and lived poorly on a pension given him by some Dutch merchants and money which he earned from distillers for advocating the use of spirits.
Cannibalism, which earned them in earlier years a terrible name, was generally restricted to the bloodthirsty banquets which always followed a victory.
The men of the little community spent their time in the drinking places, while their children earned the family bread by long hours in the mills.
In many of the states the wife has no right to the property which her father gave her, or to that which she has earned with her own hands.
Her condition should haveearned the sympathy of people.
Mazurec was about twenty years of age, and the benignity of his face and the mildness of his nature had earned him the name of Lambkin.
All this, in connection with the natural tendency to reappoint judges who have earned the public confidence, secures to the court a certain continuity of existence and consistency of view.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deserved; due; entitled; justified; merited; qualified; warranted; worthy
