The real gainer by the War of the Pragmatic Sanction had been neither France nor Austria, but the upstart of Brandenburg.
The real gainer by the Thirty Years' War had been neither France nor Austria, but Sweden.
Of all the powers that had taken part in it, the only gainer was Frederic.
The Nation as a whole is of course the gainer by the creation of these homes, adding as they do to the wealth and stability of the country, and furnishing a home market for the products of the East and South.
In the former case you bind yourself (as above said); because another man is not to be a loser, nor you a gainer or a saver, by your own fraud or gross negligence.
But if you deal with the rich, who in generosity stick not at a small matter, and are willing another should be a gainer by them, and understand what they do, it is lawful to take as much as they will give you.
A selfish, private spirit careth not what the commonwealth suffereth, if he himself may be a gainer by it.
Am I bound to endeavour that he whom I deal with may be a gainer by the bargain as well as I?
Fouquet a visit, and shaking hands with him on the bargain, you will have become a gainer of a million and a half.
Doing what you propose, I should become the obliged of the king; I should certainly be the gainer on that ground, but I should be a loser in my conscience.
I certainly owed poor Vanel that slight concession, and I am a gainer by it; since I, at the same time, can confer a pleasure on his wife.
Therefore the school was every way the gainer by my departure, so greatly the gainer indeed, that from that time no further change has been necessary.
But on my telling her that I would give her double the sum she was to be paid for her witchcraft, and that thus she would be the gainer and not a loser in complying with my demands, she became calm once more.
This was a mortifying declaration to the plaintiff, though he condoled himself with the hope of being a gainer by the loss of his eye, and now the pain was over would have been very sorry to find his sight retrieved.
Money is the chief commodity in which I deal, and, if you honour me with your commands, I shall be a gainer by my obedience.
The magnet also is the gainer by the reaction of the body which it magnetises.
I should rather be the gainerby my own utterance, and by the reaction of your fervour.
You know you will be a gainer by that cheerful instance of your duty; not a loser.
Certainly that astute Rohilla was ultimately the greatest gainerfrom the anxieties and sufferings of the campaign.
The Nizam was undoubtedly the gainer by these tragic events.
Viner's hands, and by it I think I shall be a gainer about L28, which is a very good reward for the little trouble I have had in it.
Man, as well as God, is a positive gainerby the cross.
The world would be the gainer if a Nile flood of new thought arose and swept away the past, concentrating the effort of all the races of the earth upon man's body, that it might reach an ideal of shape, and health, and happiness.
So far from being the loser by his acceptance of even this limited communal life, he is a gainer in every way.
He then proceeded to comfort us with the chearful thought that the loss was entirely our own, and that my mother was greatly a gainer by the accident which we lamented.
To say the truth, I led so wretched a life where I then was, that it was impossible not to be a gainer by any exchange.
A poor Gally-Slave, who had thrown down his Chains, took up the Gout in their stead, but made such wry Faces, that one might easily perceive he was no great Gainer by the Bargain.
This Scheme of Gain is not only consistent with that End, but has its very Being in Subordination to it; for no Man can be a Gainer here but at the same time he himself, or some other, must succeed in their Dealings with the Government.
Raleigh, no smallgainer himself by some monopolies, after making what excuse he could, offered to give them up.
This led to several conflicts between the crown and parliament; wherein, if the former often asserted the victory, the latter sometimes kept the field, and was left on the whole a gainer at the close of the campaign.
It was purchased for the sum of two millions of livres, under circumstances which shew that the regent was not so great a gainer as some of his subjects by the impetus which trade had received.
Inspector Gainer smiled warmly, walked in, took the seat Alan offered him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gainer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
