Sample sentences for PECUNIARY

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relating to money

he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services

The court needs to determine the pecuniary loss resulting from her husband's death.
Her interest was only pecuniary.
Eustace Macallan's death was in the pecuniary sense a serious loss to her husband.
Collins, Wilkie -- Law and the Lady
Phileas Fogg, then, had won the twenty thousand pounds; but, as he had spent nearly nineteen thousand on the way, the pecuniary gain was small.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
He would then have suffered under the pecuniary distresses which, because they are removed, he now reckons as nothing.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
She told him the pecuniary results, and then hesitated.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
He might come under pecuniary embarrassments, and his property be seized by creditors; or he might die, without making any arrangements in his favor.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
"Little niggard!" said he, "refusing me a pecuniary request!
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
But if he be withall deprived of his Lands, or Goods, then the Punishment lyeth not in the Exile, but is to be reckoned amongst Punishments Pecuniary.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
Whether they received any pecuniary reward for pleading, or delivering their opinions?
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
There was a little difficulty about the money-question, as she seemed averse to being under pecuniary obligations.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
He took Clennam's card and appropriate pecuniary compliment.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
There was a little difficulty about the money-question, as she seemed averse to being under pecuniary obligations.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
Gowns[37] and pecuniary foundations,[38] though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Why not make a pecuniary sacrifice?
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
The present Confederation, feeble as it is intended to repose in the United States, an unlimited power of providing for the pecuniary wants of the Union.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
The most unpleasant thing of all was that his pecuniary interests should in this way enter into the question of his reconciliation with his wife.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
This method of collecting taxes is slow as well as inconvenient, and it would prove a perpetual hindrance to a Government whose pecuniary demands were large.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1

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