Sample Sentences forpittance (auto-selected)
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— I daresay Burke paid her a pittance but there you are......Pretty, isn't it?† (source)
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But now wands waved in the city's air, untethered and free, phones in the millions, and a number could be obtained in minutes, for a pittance.† (source)
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For a pittance: your shoes.† (source)
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But I won't let it go for a pittance.† (source)
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Anatole earned a stipend from student teaching, an amount the other graduate students called a "pittance," though it was much more than he and I had ever earned together in any year.† (source)
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Capitan Victor Alicinio Pena was listed in the real estate transactions as having bought the old Gonzalez farm from the government for a pittance.† (source)
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For a pittance, people could ride nearly anywhere they wanted on a modern, safe, garishly decorated electric railway system.† (source)
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In his thesis, he'd marshal a host of epidemiological data to show that AIDS had almost certainly come from North America to Haiti, and might well have been carried there by American and Canadian and Haitian American sex tourists, who could buy assignations for pittances in a Port-au-Prince slum called Carrefour.† (source)
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You have bartered it for a pittance of the public gold.† (source)
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As to corporations, parishes, vestry-boards, and similar gatherings of jolter-headed clods who assemble to exchange such speeches that, by heaven, they ought to be worked in quicksilver mines for the short remainder of their miserable existence, if it were only to prevent their detestable English from contaminating a language spoken in the presence of the sun—as to those fellows, who meanly take advantage of the ardour of gentlemen in the pursuit of knowledge to recompense the inestimable services of the best years of their lives, their long study, and their expensive education with pittances too small for the acceptance of clerks, I would have the necks of every one of them wrung and their† (source)
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She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.† (source)
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The sheep are selling me their homes and property for a pittance.† (source)
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You knew that your basic pittance would be given to you anyway, whether you worked or not-your 'housing and feeding allowance,' it was called-and above that pittance, you had no chance to get anything, no matter how hard you tried.† (source)
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A pittance for something so powerful.† (source)
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As a young man, when two of his friends who ran a little store came to the point of despondent bankruptcy, Will was asked to lend them a little money to tide them over the quarter's bills, and they gave him a one-third interest for a pittance.† (source)
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It also made sense that he had used her mother as a front in the purchase and had then for a pittance bought back the property.† (source)
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