The plan of licensing and inspecting taverns and hotels had originated with Sir Francis, and very profitable it proved.
I trust it may beprofitable to Sir Hugh in the end," Jocelyn said; "and if not, he will reap his reward hereafter.
And when I say profitable, I do not mean only profitable to Aristus, or even to society in general, but more profitable to the workmen themselves--to the trade of the time.
Then it's still profitable to waste half of the time of a $4-a-day stenographer in order to save a long trip for a salesman, or to get a quick answer to a question.
You may safely deputize only so long as, by so doing, you leave yourself free for the more important, more profitable decisions.
We own we have very great doubts whether its re-establishment, if destined only to connect our lines of steam-packets from India to Suez, and from Southampton to Alexandria, would be found a profitable speculation.
If women's rule is not unnatural in a sense preclusive of its very existence, it is neither so convenient nor so profitable as the government of men.
God has denied to woman wisdom to consider, or providence to foresee, what is profitable to a commonwealth.
But it is more just and profitable to recognise what there is sterling and human underneath all his theoretical affectations of superiority.
Its a pretty tree, said he, and a profitableone too to raise.
Bees areprofitable stock for the farmer, and are kept to a considerable extent.
Breeding mares are profitable stock for every farmer to keep, as their annual expense in keeping is but trifling: their labor is always needed, and their colts, when grown, find a ready market.
They were pleasant and profitable on the whole, and I earned the esteem of my teachers, by my zeal and diligence in my studies, and made some few valued friends more or less permanent, but none so dear as those I left behind.
It is the error of all errors to suppose that, because a child has a sickly frame or imperfect animal organization, it is just or profitable to give it over to its own devices, and consign it to indolence and ignorance.
But southern Portugal, from which the Moors had been expelled, had suffered from a lack of laborers, and it was found profitable to introduce Negroes to work these fields.
The Spaniards established a kind of "factory" or trading-post on Cebu, and for some time a profitable trade was engaged in.
It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves.
Whatever I had within me that was romantic and dreamy, was encouraged by so much story-telling in the dark; and in that respect the pursuit may not have been very profitable to me.
Their view is that infallibility, as being likely to bring large sums of money into Rome, is certainly a profitableand praiseworthy affair, and they are accordingly ready for noisy demonstrations of joy.
It reveals the patriotic feeling, that Papal Infallibility is an Italian possession more or less profitable to every member of the nation.
After 1815 Bonne-Carrere retired into private life, directing a profitable business in public carriages between Paris and Versailles.
But Gutenberg had the firmest faith in the success of his invention: in his view it was not only to be successful, but so enormously profitable that he could well afford to pay all the exactions of the money-lender.
While it was unprofitable to engrave letters for books, it was profitable to engrave designs for printed fabrics, images and playing cards.
They had parted with certain hopes, but they had had a windfall; and two of them were looking forward with absolute assurance to a profitable meal and deal with Sir John Pilgrim on the morrow.
Having on the previous day been called to Birmingham on local and profitable business, he had found it convenient to spend the night there and telegraph home that London had summoned him.
It may therefore be profitable if we turn to Christ's own manner of working, and His own emotions in His merciful deeds, set forth in this remarkable narrative, as containing lessons for us in our missionary and evangelistic work.
A vineyard with all these fittings was ready for profitable occupation.
The intercourse he had with them was of a very pleasant and profitable character.
The qualities of the ball must of course be brought before the child's observation in some more or less definite order, and it will be profitable to consider the relative claims of Form and Color to the first place.
In another, the vested interest of the profitable nuisance has been in one family for a hundred years, and the landlord drives in comfortably from the country to his snug little stew in town.
We have a fine sea, wholesome for all people; profitable for the body, profitable for the mind.
The discoverers of any useful invention received, both living and dead, rewards worthy of their profitable labours.
Business prospered, but in 1864 Currie found it profitable to substitute London for Liverpool as the home port of his vessels, and himself settled in London.
It is a business, a very profitable business, at which fortunes are made in the new states, to purchase these refuse lands and without improving them to sell them at large advances.
While some voyages were lessprofitable than others, there was no avenue of international trade that offered more alluring possibilities.
He made cautious answer; if the Maid had anything profitable and reasonable to say, she would be trusted.
They took pay in dollars, and were thus enabled to open more profitable commerce with the traders at the settlements for better goods and better bargains; they simply declined beads, whiskey, and Bibles at any price.
The result was that the traders found it profitable to protect them from their countrymen, and the chances of wantonly shooting down a possible valuable customer stopped the old indiscriminate rifle-practice.
What can we say in this world is profitable where husbandry is wanting, it being the great nerve and sinew which holdeth together all the joints of a monarchy?
At the beginning of the seventeenth century a reaction set in; the price of corn had risen immensely and continued to do so, the price of wool remained stationary, and tillage was as profitable as grass.
He was to make these 'profitable beasts' the best all-round cattle in the world, and to succeed where George Culley had failed.
Early in 1844 another break occurred, due to the sudden falling off of land surveying as a profitable business.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "profitable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
