The land takes nearly all our income to wrest something from its wildness besides the heather and the stretches of gorse-covered moor.
But her ladyship, who had money in her own right, said that Master Charles's income should go on as usual.
One result was that Sir John stopped the income that he had always allowed his son, and took a frightful oath that if Master Charles were dying of starvation before his eyes he would not give him as much as a penny to buy bread with.
Charles and James Hoyt of Brooklyn) with a frame house in Lancaster, an income of $200 a year and eleven as hungry, rough, and uncouth children as ever existed on earth.
Instinctively, he felt that he was not getting all that he might from his educational opportunities, yet the need for him to add to the family income was, if anything, becoming greater.
He talked to the publisher and editor about the idea, but the boys showed by their books that while there was a reasonable income for them, not wholly dependent on the magazine, there was no room for a third.
The Brooklyn Magazine was now earning a comfortable income for its two young proprietors, and their backers were entirely satisfied with the way it was being conducted.
He was particularly careful never to live up to his income; and as his income increased he increased not the percentage of expenditure but the percentage of saving.
By intelligent thinning you can make an average income of five dollars per acre from ordinary second growth wild woods.
Yet if in ridding the farm of weeds and thus raising the value of the land the farmer can at the same time make these pests the source of a small income instead of a dead loss, something is gained.
Other crops in the rotation might not be so profitable, hence it is not fair to figure anincome on one.
Engel thinks that the outlay for subsistence diminishes as income increases; but comforts and luxuries increase in intimate ratio with the income, and the larger part of these come from the farm and forest.
An ingenious person may find other sources of income in the country.
Engel, in fact, allows this, for he says that 'sundries become greater as income increases.
A production of 400 bushels costs no more cash outlay per acre, while the incomeis big wages to the farmer.
Another report gave an average of $110 annual income per acre for three years, and these results were obtained where only ordinary care was given to the orchard.
Consequently, the income from the sale of mohair is nearly net.
He had a considerable fortune of his own, and was thus, by his private income and his pay as an officer, secured against want.
What with his own estate, and what with his wife's fortune, he had already an income of a hundred thousand dollars.
He could not understand, he said, how a man in good position, with a bright future before him, and a large income to support him, could thus kill himself.
I could not help, however, smiling at the phantom of wealth which her dear imagination had conjured up out of a clear income of poor--hundred pounds a year.
Yet this is precisely the situation in which every parent whoseincome does not very much exceed the moderate, is placed with respect to his daughters.
It was my intention to have crept back to my comrade Willie, and resumed my bow with such spirit as I might, although, at the moment, I would have given half my income for an instant's solitude.
Another source of income to New England preachers was the sale of the gloves and rings which were given to them (and indeed to all persons of any importance) at weddings, funerals, and christenings.
This income enabled the Popes to maintain churches and monasteries, schools and missionaries, to buy off raiding armies of Lombards, and also to equip soldiers of their own.
The income of the college is now about eight thousand dollars, arising from a fund of more than one hundred and fifty thousand.
I once called on a planter within an hour's ride of Natchez, whose income would constitute a fortune for five or six modest Yankees.
Deducting two thousand and five hundred dollars for the expenses of the plantation, there will remain the net income of eleven thousand dollars.
Naturally, too, his income was more adequate to the necessities of a man of family and learning than it had ever been before.
In some parts, and especially in the large towns, the actual hardships were nothing worse than diminution of income and straitened circumstances; while in not a few cases even that was not felt.
It contains passages of exquisite beauty, and has since attained to considerable popularity; but it was not immediately successful, and added little to the modest income of its author.
Every minister in Scotland who adhered to the Church lost his income in one day--Whit-sunday of 1843.
To make up, to an extent at least, for her loss, her brother surrendered a good share of the income remaining to him.
Mrs. Digby, however, with all her pride in her son, felt that the large income which he drew went for other than legitimate college expenses.
Ben knew that Kate, since she had come of age, had spent no small share of her income in furthering schemes for the improvement of various poor people.
He had reduced his proportion of profit and raised the income of the works, by inventing new classes of customers, and increasing the volume of the business.
It is, at all events, a very respectable office, and has a good income attached to it; and I do not doubt that I could have discharged the duties of my position with the requisite address.
I'd like to make a trust fund of it, and let her have the income from now on, and turn over the principal when she's thirty, say.
And if Kirkwood was silly enough to cling to the old home, while living in a rented house in a less agreeable neighborhood, there was no reason why he should refuse to lease it and devote the income to Phil's upbringing.
Miss Nan was an expert needlewoman, and, like her sister, augmented their income by the labor of her hands.
Irregular in his habits, lax in his morals, a spendthrift and an insolvent, he could not resist the incessant attacks upon Clinton, nor the offer of the shrievalty of New York, with its large income and fat fees.
The large demand for these works was a source of good income to Dürer, and gave him a position of comfort.
At this time he was making about twelve hundred pounds a year, a very good income for those days.
The averageincome of the black clergy is not easily ascertained.
The penitent always pays something when he receives absolution; but as confession is not frequent in the Russian Church, the income from this source must be small.
Denis to an old general, who, after a reasonably short time, had the delicacy to betake himself to a better world, leaving his gay wife a widow at the head of an income of L40 a year.
The average income of a priest is thus about $341.
He has given a permanent fund to the Broadway Congregational Church in Norwich, and to the Congregational Church in Lebanon, with which his parents and sisters were connected, the income of which is to be used for the pastor's library.
Could it be that Adela also had refused to venture till her future husband should have a good, comfortable, disposable income of his own?
They should not encumber themselves with early, hopeless loves; nor should they callously resolve to care for nothing but a good income and a good house.
As I am, and am likely to remain unmarried, my present income is sufficient for me.
Neither he nor his sweetheart have, I take it, been accustomed to do without wants; and their income will be tight enough--forby what you can do for them.
Yes, and that you afterwards gave him an income when he came up to live in London.
And I know well, that our joint income should be ample for the next four or five years.
How many thousand married couples are there, do you suppose, in London, who are now living on less than what our income will be?
Vicar of Hurst Staple he is still, and he still pays the old allowance out of his well-earned income to his mother, who lives with her daughters at Littlebath.
Did you tell him at the same time what his future incomewas to be?
For one year he would have the income of his fellowship; in two years and a half he would be called; and in the meantime, he could make something by the Magazines.
My income is large; but I want a little ready money at present to conclude the purchase of my house, and to furnish it.
The income of the gentleman when stripped of his fellowship would be two hundred pounds a year; that of the lady was about the same.
This he refused to give; but he offered to Mr. Waddington occupation by which an income could be earned.
At this moment George's fixed income was but two hundred pounds a year, and any other wealth of which he was possessed was the remainder of his uncle's thousand pounds.
