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Example sentences for "getting money"

  • Amongst the many and various modes which he tried of getting money, he became a partner with a small-beer brewer, and he was to have a share of the profits for procuring customers amongst his numerous acquaintance.

  • Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

  • But this slow method of getting money did by no means satisfy Roche; he was resolved to grow rich at once, and not wait till much labour and many voyages had made him so.

  • But as his brother's death in time grew out of his remembrance, so his evil inclinations again took place, and he came up to London with a full purpose of getting money at an easier rate than working.

  • You have no other means of getting money to pay your rent?

  • Another witness testifies to the difficulty of getting money, and his being obliged to take goods; and it appears that formerly there was one price in goods and another in cash.

  • She takes goods from me on lines which I get for my shawls and she gives me wool and cash to favour me, because she knows I have no other way of getting money.

  • Johnson observed, that abilities might be employed in a narrow sphere, as in getting money, which he said he believed no man could do, without vigorous parts, though concentrated to a point.

  • The question of getting money to live on is usually dismissed in a princely way by writers about human life.

  • No, she could not take alms; than alms there was no lower way of getting money.

  • Of the means of getting Money; of the Signs of a Lover who is beginning to be weary, and of the way to get rid of him.

  • When an occasion for complying with the request of a friend, and a chance of getting money come together, the Sages say that the chance of getting money should be preferred.

  • Now when a courtesan takes up with a man from love, the action is natural; but when she resorts to him for the purpose of getting money, her action is artificial or forced.

  • Thus end the ways and means of getting money.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clay color; colonial empire; come alongside; eyes rested; getting away; getting back; getting down; getting hold; getting home; getting money; getting possession; getting ready; getting them; getting through; getting tired; haired gentleman; idea what; much snow; preparation for; really want; single year; suffering humanity; this connection; twice over; way that; weak solutions