To become a dressmaker’s apprentice was possible; but the woman who provided the opportunity offered instruction for the first six months in lieu of wages.
The document was duly witnessed and bore, in lieu of signature, the imprint of a seal, with a device of crossed battle-axes and the single word Invictus.
Others held their lands in lieu of military pay long in arrear; and the fact that they had not turned their arms against those who were contriving the Restoration, might seem to give them a claim to generous treatment.
Up to that point, I admit the constitutionality of drawbacks, whether passing under that name, or changed to the name of a bounty, or an allowance in lieu of a drawback.
In the first place it declares the bounty to be inlieu of a drawback of the salt duty.
On the circulation, the tax commenced at one cent on a one dollar note, and rose gradually to fifty dollars on notes exceeding one thousand dollars; with the privilege of compounding for a gross sum in lieu of the duty.
By this act the bounties and allowances both to fish and provisions, were described to be "in lieu of drawback of the duty on salt used in curing fish and provisions exported.
The clothing for seamen being paid for by themselves, so much of the item of pay as was necessary had hitherto been expended in clothing for them, which was received by them in lieu of money.
Pay a week’s money in lieu of the notice,” I said.
The Spaniards, however, regularly sent provisions to the ships at Puna every day, otherwise the prisoners would have starved; but in lieu of money they substituted nothing better than promises.
The value of gold was so much enhanced that an ounce of gold was received in lieu of eighty dollars, and a Spanish pistole went for fifteen dollars; but these instances probably took place in settling their gaming accounts.
Palermo, of first, second, and third class funeral cars in lieu of the old system of bearers.
In addition to the pot-drum, the Pulluvans play on a lute with snakes painted on the reptile skin, which is used in lieu of parchment.
In lieu of a subsidy Spain now promised to provide from twenty-five to twenty-nine sail of the line, and to have them ready by the close of March.
The Bonapartes firmly rejected the proposal for the retention of Tobago by England in lieu of her pecuniary demand.
By this means a fair revenue will be assured to the emirs, in lieu of their former source of wealth, which consisted in slaves and slave-raiding, and in extortionate taxes on trade.
Ah, my dear general, you have been my best friend," declared the man now clothed in sacking in lieu of a uniform.
In lieu of any other lady, she, I suppose, may be considered the mistress of the house!
I believe it is the custom here in discharging domestics to give a month's warning, or in lieu of that, to pay a month's wages in advance.
In lieu of it the boys got some white limestone, which they first calcined, and then puddled up into a paste with water.
This is then properly transferred to us, inlieu of our cheque.
He gladly accepted, inlieu of it, an offer that the French fleet should guard the Channel through the summer; and meanwhile, he collected himself resolutely to abide the issue, whatever the issue was to be.
In lieu of the old feud between the Governor and the Intendant, there came into being a new line of cleavage, which tended to divide the mother country from the colony.
Thenceforward there was always the nucleus of a French party among the Five Nations, the elements of a divided policy inlieu of solid hostility to the French.
Lizzie, when the policemen were gone, and the noise was over, and the house was closed, slunk away to her bedroom, refusing any aid in lieu of that of the wicked Patience.
But Lord Fawn had been aware that his sister had of late shifted the ground of her inveterate enmity to Lizzie Eustace, making use of the scene which Mr. Gowran had witnessed, in lieu of the lady's rapacity in regard to the necklace.
In this instance the visiting Pawnee carried a flag in lieu of a pipe.
