Such were those Romans who invented dreadful crimes through love of good living!
The inhabitants of Attica were fond of good living; and when one of them took a wife he spared no expense to give splendour to the nuptial banquet--a very excusable pride on such an occasion.
Thus these goings-on are a fight for dear life, and, in gradation upward, for more or less of a "good living.
Are we to hire out under rates, that you may have a good living?
He earns a good living by his cabinet-making and it is quite time he set up a Jewish household for himself.
I suppose Mr. Weingott is getting a good livingnow in Manchester?
A fine, strong, healthy young man like you, who can make a good living!
The farmer who has a couple of thousand dollars to pay cash for a small farm in Maryland is assured of a good living.
There is a "good living" to be had for twelve pounds, and it is evidently a much better thing than the average run of small curacies, for it will enable a person to obtain "a respectable livelihood.
I am making a good living now, or I was before you interfered with me.
And I can give you a chance to make a good living.
In the large place which the details of good livingfill in his plays, Plautus exaggerates a tendency which is discernible in the more decorous fictions of Scott and Dickens.
Do we read anywhere that Miltiades, Epaminondas, and Agesilaus were fond of good living?
Just so, another wiseacre resolves within himself that he will preach, and he preaches; he is without any talent, or has not the least vocation for it, but he wants a good living.
Gourmandise, or the love of good living, is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for whatever flatters the sense of taste.
After all is said and done, the first question still remains,--the opportunity to make a good living on a farm, and the possibility of leading a life that will be personally satisfactory.
In other cases, it is because the farm can no longer make a good living for a man and his family, giving him the things that a man of the twentieth century wants.
So far as agriculture is concerned, I see two points of high endeavor within the business, lying beyond the making of a good living, and toward which the coming countryman may set his imagination.
They have always made a good living by hunting and trapping and fishing, and I believe when the time comes they will adapt themselves much more readily and intelligently to farming and stock-raising than did the Indians to the south.
As for the country, it was plain that all we met were making a good living in it, not by fur alone, but by successful farming, and that its settlement was but a question of time.
We think that as the rivers and lakes of this country will be the principal highways, good boatmen, like yourselves, cannot fail to make a good living, and profit from the increase in traffic.
To provide a good living, therefore, for himself and family, is the very first duty of every man.
The people of England have been famed, in all ages, for their good living; for the abundance of their food and goodness of their attire.
To the rear of the shoemaker's house are stable and barn; for every dweller in the valley carries on farming along with his regular occupation and makes a good living from it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good living" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
