And very miserable they must surely be sometimes, on both their takings and their keepings," said Helmsley.
None take more than they do, and none keep their takings closer!
Let us pass now to a consideration of various classes of the takings of human life.
A feud is a series of takings of human life as vengeance, in which the heads may or may not be taken.
But for twenty-four representations of Moliere's comedy, the Bourgeois gentilhomme, which was played concurrently with Tite et Berenice, the average takings were 1000 livres.
And being asked if the aforesaid takings included much bad money, Waterloo responded, with a look far deeper than the deepest part of the river, HE should think not!
Likewise did Waterloo inform us, in reply to my inquiries, admiringly and deferentially preferred through my friend Pea, that the takings at the Bridge had more than doubled in amount, since the reduction of the toll one half.
As soon as he had turned his back upon Magnolia, my leave- takings began.
It became necessary for me to think how soon I could be ready, and arrange to get my leave-takings over by a certain time.
When a member receives the portfolio, he selects specimens at will from any of the sheets, but he generally endeavours to balance his own takings with the takings of all the members from his sheet.
In fustian and velvet cutting, where the same piece-wages are paid to men and women, the actual takings of the men are about double.
When we turn from expenses of production to the aggregate takings from the sale of the several quantities of supply, we shall find a similar irregularity of increase.
The relation between the growth of expenses of production and of aggregate takings will yield a different net amount of profit at each increment of supply.
When he himself arrived some time later she informed him that last night's takings were about twenty-five pounds, but she had already paid away the bulk of it for fresh advertising.
On the fourth evening they played almost to empty benches, the takingsamounting to seventeen shillings and sixpence.
As soon as he had turned his back upon Magnolia, my leave-takings began.
Then came the last day of school, which began with leave-takings and embraces.
We tingled when we read of the mobilizing of the huge armies, of the leave-takings of the soldiers.
Thus the gross takings were two louis, ten livres, and two sous.
The takings reached the sum of eight louis, which was as good business as M.
Of all our sad contacts and separations, these leave-takings at the convents were the saddest.
But of all leave-takings this seems to me the worst.
Leave-takings are sad things, and why incur one so full of peril and misery too?
My actualtakings have been over four thousand pounds.
Then had her books to be produced, her order-sheet criticised; then was comparison made between this week's takings and those of the corresponding week last year.
Do you know," and he lifted his head, speaking more naturally and looking at her with pride in his achievement, "in the two years I have been in the concern I have doubled the takings in my department?
The State shares in the takings of the concession to the extent of 50 per cent.
Barnabas Thorpe sprang to his feet and cut leave-takings short.
There is no “half-price for children,” and for the simple reason that such an arrangement would reduce the takings exactly fifty per cent.
This is certain (she once admitted it), that from the takings she put a pound a day into her own pocket.
The takings were put on slips of paper by the servants, and by some process of her own which she could not explain, she got a rough sort of check on the servants to prevent them robbing her.
I became curious at finding the items were all in five shillings, seven and sixpence, ten and twenty shillings; at last it struck me what it was, and taxing her with it found it was the takings of the baudy house, she told me so with a laugh.
