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pittance
1. “This is a small pittance of what you're worth,” the man said and moved behind her
2. paid the pittance of a bill – thoroughly satisfied with the
3. Why would Caroline concern herself with the pittance of his salary, unless he had opened his mouth about his extra earnings? That was it with him! He was finished
4. Meanwhile I’m paid the same pittance as the Zulu women who scrub the floors and live in shacks
5. He thought it would be an insult if his footwear were to be bought by someone for a pittance
6. She'd been fighting this battle for the last three years since the spare cash ran short and Franklin's pittance stopped coming
7. He would not contemplate applying for welfare because he was a proud man who had always worked for a living and discerned that they would have no life or future trying to manage on the pittance that it paid
8. After six years the survivors and victim’s families had only received a pittance from the government under the criminal victims’ compensation scheme
9. She worked there for a pittance she told Matthew, but the little she earned helped the household
10. Tafferel had employed what the Americans call ‘wet backs’ to do his dirty work and probably paid them a pittance
11. the pittance of change I have in my pockets but even
12. village council, a pittance, for pulling the punt across
13. people, it wouldn't be a pittance, however
14. to work for a pittance
15. The more successful company – Fish Stocks Limited – then floods the market with cheap stock just before the smaller company hits land, meaning that they can only sell their stock at a pittance
16. workers to work for a pittance
17. As for the ammunition situation, we have only sixty tons of bombs, rockets and cannon ammunition in Da Nang, a pittance really, until the ammunition ship VESUVIUS can dock in Da Nang Monday night, in company of a combat stores ship loaded with 2,000 tons of spares and various supplies and 1,200 tons of refrigerated stores and fresh food
18. To know Him, to know rescue, eternity with My Lord and Savior, anything would be a mere pittance, could I ever pay in full
19. This little earner had been an afterthought on the part of Wolf and his associates who had been prepared to depart New Zealand shores with Clegg’s fortune and discard the pittance of private vehicles and beach craft registered to the estate
20. So don’t worry, you get to pay yourself over again to get a pittance of your money
21. fate of the human race, and live on a pittance
22. We luv The Game so much we are willing to pay the servants a little more, raise their standard of living a pittance each year, even ease up on the lash by letting them take thirty minute naps in a company controlled, performance enhancing sleep room, just to ease our consciences so we can enjoy it, The Game, even more, by purchasing and practicing its NUest version, The Game of Giving: Father Snitchmas and Real Warehouse Wives of Undercover Charity – Bored Billionaires edition
23. As if he’d struggle lugging a wheelchair to Tesco for fun, and having kids throwing stones at him, just to claim a pittance from the government in hand-outs
24. “ I’ve traveled to many antique auctions and have been fortunate enough to pick up personal belongings and novelties for a mere pittance
25. “ I’ve traveled to national and international antique auctions and have been fortunate enough to pick up many personal belongings and novelties for a mere pittance
26. His claws reached out to grab the pittance of the poverty-stricken client as well as the fee of the wealthy
27. Expatriates had bought them for a pittance and outfitted them in a rudimentary fashion, but it soon proved a waste of money
28. It was still a pittance for the five kilometre ride
29. They labor twelve hours a day for a pittance
30. These wretched beasts were invariably never let off their chains, and were neglected and given pittance to eat and drink
31. It could not have been easy to move out of an exclusive school where your schoolmates were the offspring of rich Egyptian families, to go and sit with the poor devils that worked for a pittance stitching away the clothes in your father's atelier
32. The new twist on this myth today is that if the rich become filthy rich, then some small pittance might trickle down to the poor and slightly benefit them also
33. Yet inside civilization, the exact opposite is true: people buy and sell living animals for a pittance, while placing the value of dead things in the millions and billions of dollars
34. There was such a glut of cheap affordable railways and bus lines that the masses could cross the entire continent easily in complete comfort for a pittance and go anywhere they wanted to with a minimum of fuss or expense
35. Rather than be an unwilling slave to a King: work willingly for an employer and be paid a pittance for all your toil and trouble
36. She cemented again, for the millionth time in twelve thousand years…the royal right for obscenely wealthy people, for the Royal Elite to give a pittance of their time, but not one red cent of their own ill-gotten wealth to the poor
37. If he had made scrooge more honest: if Scrooge had hated the hypocrisies of the traditional Christmas honestly: then at least he could have exposed Christmas for what it is: a token lie, a pittance token lie
38. Give money once a year and you are a good Christian! Give a tiny pittance of your huge amassed wealth one day a year and you are a benefactor of all mankind! And to hell with the other 364 days
39. The government salary was a pittance so the good doctors made their living by reputation, taking cash for preferential treatment in a state hospital
40. her business, and retire with a decent pittance into the country, where I
41. Ten young descendants of Marius and the Gracchi, barefooted and out at elbows, with one hand resting on the hip and the other gracefully curved above the head, stared at the traveller, the post-chaise, and the horses; to these were added about fifty little vagabonds from the Papal States, who earned a pittance by diving into the Tiber at high water from the bridge of St
42. Cole's cluck that she was left with only me, like a hen with one chicken; but though she was earnestly entreated and encouraged to recruit her crops, her growing infirmities, and, above all, the tortures, of a stubborn hip gout, which she found would yield to no remedy, determined her to break up her business, and retire with a decent pittance into the country, where I promised myself, nothing so sure, as my going down to live with her, as soon as I had seen a little more of life, and improved my small matters into a competency that would create in me an independence on the world: for I was now, thanks to Mrs
43. “The settlement was a pittance compared to what it would’ve been if they had filed a year later
44. Once again he was rejoined with his old company which was but a pittance of its former self
45. It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent
46. As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I gave, so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men
47. Thanks to Pougatcheff I had an excellent horse, and I shared my meager pittance with it
48. Her mother was an old, old woman, and they used to sell string and thread, and soap and tobacco, out of the window of their little house, and lived on the pittance they gained by this trade
49. Before they granted a claim of this doubtful character, influenced by the character or standing of the individual, they should relieve the impoverished old soldiers who daily begged of them for a pittance of bread, whose claims were equally just and whose necessities were much more pressing
50. We might have had a perpetual revenue of sixteen millions, instead of the pittance now received at the Treasury