Under these circumstances, he vainly endeavours to obtain employment; and, utterly failing in his attempt to earn an honest livelihood, he is compelled perforce to relapse into habits of crime and lawlessness.
I enlisted, my lord, in order to obtain an honest livelihood, and to stifle in the bustle of a new state of existence the painful reminiscences of blighted hopes and crushed affections.
I did so, and solicited him to counsel me how to get an honest livelihood.
Under these circumstances, he vainly endeavoured to obtain employment; and, utterly failing in his attempt to earn an honest livelihood, he was compelled perforce to relapse into habits of crime and lawlessness.
After coming home I resolved I should make a fair trial to gain an honest livelihood.
He shall not lead an idle or dissolute life, without visible means of obtaining an honest livelihood.
They also heard from their fellows that several had attained to a ticket of leave, and were earning for themselves an honest livelihood in the place of their banishment.
But the convict knows that his chances of making an honest livelihood after a conviction are many times less than before.
He will be given no opportunity to earn an honest livelihood, and it would be surprising indeed if his wrongs, not to speak of his empty stomach and hopeless circumstances did not make him a bona fide criminal ere long.
Men who have been imprisoned more than once lose hope of anything better than transient freedom; they know they will be prevented by the police from earning an honest livelihood, and that they must either starve or steal.
What are the influences ordered by Parliament, and what is the work they have to be taught which will make them able and willing to earn an honest livelihood?
It is perfectly wonderful to behold the various methods in which the poor creatures in that thoroughfare endeavour to obtain an honest livelihood; and although their proceedings elicit a smile—still, God pity them!
Not that the authorities in Australia or Norfolk Island have in any way contributed to this moral change which has come over me: no—my own meditations and reflections have induced me to toil in order to earn an honest livelihood.
My object is to proceed to America, where I might be enabled to obtain an honest livelihood by my mercantile experience and knowledge.
The police seem determined that I shan't earn an honest livelihood: and as I am equally resolved not to see my children starve before me, I have nothing left to do but to become a thief.
However, he did not seem to have taken this much to heart, for in a short time he followed her example and married another wife; but finding no method of procuring an honest livelihood, he took a short method of living, viz.
He proves that he is earning an honest livelihood, and the magistrate dismisses him.
You cannot do it; and yet you expose men who may be earning an honest livelihood to the danger of that happening to them if they refuse a demand for hush-money, or in any other way give offence to a dishonest police-constable.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honest livelihood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
