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Example sentences for "fair share"

  • Their ambition is to go through life with moderate exertion and a fair share of ease, doing common things in a common way.

  • They've given me more than my fair share--knocking the squadron out of shape.

  • I've been at it five years, and I can do my fair share of the Smoke with any one; but I was a child to Fung-Tching that way.

  • We are now Republic, Mister Jukes, and you are entitled to a fair share of the beast.

  • The total tonnage of American shipping engaged in this trade was seven hundred thousand tons, and of this Boston possessed a fair share.

  • Young Peter grew up in this rough country with a constitution of iron, and a fair share of Western courage, independence, and energy.

  • Mr. Jefferson reaped a fair share of this golden harvest, and at the close of his Australian engagements found himself the possessor of a handsome sum.

  • She was, in a general way, fond of amusement and society, accustomed and not indifferent to a fair share of admiration.

  • It must surely, Sir, be admitted that the protection which we give to books ought to be distributed as evenly as possible, that every book should have a fair share of that protection, and no book more than a fair share.

  • It would give a fair share in the making of laws to those without whose co-operation laws are mere waste paper.

  • Here all men contribute to the public welfare and bear their fair share of the public burdens.

  • They cannot be achieved unless our workingmen and women and their unions help to increase productivity and obtain for labor a fair share of the benefits of our economic system.

  • And the best proof alike of its power and its justice would be to obtain for the Uitlanders in the Transvaal a fair share in the government of the country which owes everything to their exertions.

  • The admission of the Uitlanders to a fair share of political power would no doubt give stability to the Republic.

  • The negro seems to have received in the first years of the new rĂ©gime a fair share of the school money, but that share was not large.

  • A fair share, if not more, of the more important diplomatic, consular, and administrative appointments went to Southerners.

  • However, when all allowances have been made, it is obvious that the negro is receiving less than a fair share of the appropriations made by the Southern States for education.

  • The agencies which minister to pleasure, the theatre, the concert hall and vaudeville, would lose a fair share of their patronage if Jews were excluded from them.

  • Nevertheless, they are forced to export a fair share of their crops, in order to bring sufficient money into the country for the support of the government.

  • I am perfectly cool, but determined--determined to have justice, and my fair share of this man's wealth!

  • I hope the writer got a fair share," said Katherine, smiling.

  • We advise people to secure a fair share of health before they begin and then they will be sure to keep it.

  • The food is not assimilated, the fowls become debilitated, and though they may give a fair share of eggs, these eggs can seldom be depended upon to hatch.

  • For though it may be weeks before the tyro will be able to do what would be called a fair day's work, yet if he keeps his wits about him, and is endowed with a fair share of energy, there will be constant improvement.

  • For a short time the Government forces had a fair share of good fortune, and in various engagements, of no great importance, came off victorious over the Mahdists.

  • Shops and houses were broken into and pillaged, and for four and a half hours, until the soldiers arrived on the scene, the usually quiet and prosperous city of Alexandria experienced a fair share of the horrors of war.

  • At last the financial scheme came into operation, and, combined with other reforms, for some time seemed likely to secure to Egypt and her creditors a fair share of the blessings intended.

  • One who was thoroughly awake as he was to the idea of being free, with a fair share of courage, could now and then meet with the opportunity to escape by the steamers or schooners coming North.

  • Daniel was young, only twenty-three, good looking, and half white, with a fair share of intelligence.

  • William unquestionably possessed a fair share of common sense, and just enough distaste to Slavery to arouse him most resolutely to seek his freedom.

  • Willis was of a very dark hue, thick set, thirty-two years of age, and possessed of a fair share of mind.

  • Everything in the building seems strong, clean, and good; and considering the ponderous character of its architecture a fair share of light is admitted to it.

  • You be advised, Lawyer Mitchell, and always give me my fair share.

  • And because you give me a fair share of the plunder.

  • You furnish the brains and the respectability; I take the risk, and I get my fair share.

  • If he had only followed the beaten track, there was every prospect of success before him; for, mind you, he had a fair share of ability.

  • I think you have a fair share of work to do here, and that you have done it and are doing it remarkably well.

  • There are generally a fair share of sick-calls on the day succeeding the great festivity, for obvious reasons.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bury them; emigrants from; fair castle; fair companion; fair copy; fair hair; fair hearing; fair ladies; fair land; fair maiden; fair play; fair prospect; fair quality; fair return; fair sweet; fair woman; fair youth; fairly long; fairy stories; fairy story; fairy tale; five guineas; higher mathematics; pagan times; three friends; transition period