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Sentences ending with earned

I passed through your town at a certain time, and received a deep offence which I had not earned. [5]
Unless it was training-day, or Fourth of July, or the circus was coming, it was a little difficult to find anything big enough to fill our anticipations of the fun we would have in the day or the two or three days we had earned. [4]
Perhaps the essence of the thing is the value which men attach to a valuable something which has come by luck and not been earned. [5]
The Bishop-he told his brother--had desired his immediate presence, to be congratulated on his victory; his first duty was to obey that mandate, and he should at once avail himself of its favorable opportunity to obtain for his deceased parent the honor he had earned. [10]
If you make good speed, you shall soon see the first ducats you yourself have earned. [10]
Democracy on the front of the stage before an applauding audience; performers absorbed in their parts, forgetting that the landlord has to be paid in money yet to be earned. [9]
It was a fame well earned. [5]
I said I could save you money, and money saved is money earned. [11]
She might have been as rich as the Fuggers if she hadn't met with the accident and had understood how to keep what she earned. [10]
No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty--none less inclined to touch or take aught which they have not honestly earned. [7]

Short sentences using earned

I've earned my end. [11]
But he had earned it. [5]
I guess he's earned him. [11]

Sentences containing earned two or more times

The captive staggered toward her and she saw that the liberty he had earned was earned too late. [5]

More example sentences with the word earned in them

And even if your secret should eventually be discovered--which is not probable--you will have earned respect, and society is not as stern as it used to be. [9]
Now, after ten years, a bill was finally passed to pay to Moses the difference between what he earned in that unlucky year and what he received. [5]
These poor folk who had had nothing of the world but what they earned, they would never hang on any prince's favours. [11]
The manner in which she combines the highest mental culture with the nicest discharge of feminine duties filled me with admiration; while her affectionate kindness earned my gratitude. [14]
She was pretty well paid, to be sure, and in answer to Selene's enquiry, he had stated the amount she earned and mentioned the name of the rich manufacturer to whom she had sold her social standing for gold. [10]
Before the week was out I had earned the nickname of Beau Brummel. [9]
While ordering the waiter to bring him a mug of beer, Captain Allertssohn appeared with Junker von Warmond, who had taken part in the consultation at Peter Van der Werff's, and bravely earned his captain's sash two years before at the capture of Brill. [10]
You've earned your uniform, and it suits you. [11]
She did not understand why Cassy, who had earned so much money all these years, should be so poor now, unless it was that she hadn't saved--that she and George hadn't saved. [11]
Back to life, to the society of men of my own stamp, to reap the praise earned by my own creations, and to the only divine maiden among mortals--to Daphne! [10]
It earned sorrow to the breast of every apostle of learning there, for none could deny that this was a formidable criticism. [5]
Then the desire to please, which had never left her since she earned the first applause, seized upon her more fiercely than ever. [10]
I was true to myself before I married George, and I was true to George after, and all I earned he shared; and I've got little left. [11]
Thus many a time our souls ached to see want and pain lying in darksome chambers on wretched straw, though we earned thanks and true joy when we saw that healing and ease followed in our steps. [10]
The money they thus earned served to help maintain the poorer scholars, and to be sure, my brother was ready to forego his share; nay, and a great part of his own pocket-money went to those twelve, for among them were comrades he truly loved. [10]
Indeed, I have thought that a society--" "I earned my title," said General Doby, somewhat sheepishly, "fighting on Governor Brown's staff. [9]
I have earned, this way and that, all that I might ever get from the King's coffers--even this three hunder' thousan' francs, ten times told. [11]
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it! [5]
He had earned them all by the most faithful and patient labor. [6]
And thus, for the third time, he earned the gratitude of his gracious Majesty. [9]
Nothing could disturb the sleep that fettered us, for it had been fairly earned, and if our consciences had any sins on them they had to adjourn court for that night, any way. [5]
She understood that the reason why they refrained from questioning her was due to a faith in her integrity as well as to a respect for her as a breadwinner who lead earned a right to independence. [9]
If A, is the penny sufficient, or may he claim consequential damages in the form of additional money to represent the possible profit which might have inured from the dog, and classifiable as earned increment, that is to say, usufruct? [5]
The article carried the implication that the modern, practical, American business man was the highest type as yet evolved by civilization: and Ditmar, referred to as "a wizard of the textile industry," was emphatically one who had earned the gratitude of the grand old Commonwealth. [9]
Isabella often earned the artist's unqualified praise, Ulrich sometimes received encouraging, sometimes reproving, and sometimes even harsh words. [10]
Her work was that of clerk and copyist in a freight office, and she earned nine dollars a week, on which she supported herself and her mother. [4]
You smile; and that is punishment for my vanity; and fairly earned, I grant you. [5]
It seemed, then, that honest toil and brave diligence had but earned the heaviest dole that could befall a man in his state of life; namely: to depart from those he loved or ever he could provide for their future living. [10]
His name was Tarautas, and he was known throughout the empire as the most brutal of gladiators, for he had also earned the further privilege of never fighting but for life or death, and never under any circumstances either granting or asking quarter. [10]
It is a source of honest pride to his descendant that his bill, which was honestly paid, as it seems to have been honorably earned, amounted to the handsome total of seven pounds and two shillings. [3]
No one has so well earned the privilege of abolishing this pestilent limb of Satan. [5]
What was our sin that we are still here, we who have also earned our place with the happy dead? [5]
By this and similar work he earned a living, until, at the end of seven years, he went to Frankfort-on-the-Main to learn the rudiments of building. [10]
Over there the season had opened quite as usual; indeed, it was always open; work must go on every day, because every day food must be obtained and rent-money earned, and the change from summer to winter was only a climatic increase of hardships. [4]
And when you say he has earned your gratitude for cuffing me for my crimes against the Leather stockings and the Vicar, I ain't making any objection. [5]
Sure of himself, proud of the love which he declared, he spoke as a man who has earned that for which he prays,--simply and with dignity. [9]
And, I take pride in writing it, Mr. Carvel spent much of what he had earned at Gordon's Pride in a like honourable manner. [9]
Congress knows this perfectly well, and I have long felt hurt that this quite proper and earned expression of gratitude has been merely felt by the House and never publicly uttered. [5]
Congress knows it perfectly well and I have long felt hurt that this quite proper and earned expression of gratitude has been merely felt by the House and never publicly uttered. [5]
They thought the officials should have been chosen from among themselves from among prominent citizens who had earned a right to such promotion, and who would be in sympathy with the populace and likewise thoroughly acquainted with the needs of the Territory. [5]
He told her of the brave struggle Stephen had made, and how he had earned luxuries, and often necessities, for his mother by writing for the newspapers. [9]
Janet was incapable of speech--nor could she have brought herself to ask Lise whether or not the money had been earned at the Bagatelle, and remained miraculously unspent. [9]
When she, builder of a hundred cathedrals, was being gratefully welcomed and blest in papal Rome and decorated with the Golden Rose which she had so honorably earned, what was he doing? [5]
Under the name of "Phyllis" she had earned, ere her limbs were stiffened by age, great applause by her dainty egg-dance and all sorts of feats with the balancing pole. [10]
Surely he had not earned such friendship, such affection. [11]
When she did not come the next day, Joe told him that she couldn't; that he ought to remember she had had no rest for weeks, and had earned a long rest. [11]
It will do no great harm, if you afterwards forget the names earned here. [10]
I bet you never earned a hundred dollars in your life. [11]
Thus I earned my reputation as a prophet. [9]
I have earned my place in this is land, and he shall not have his way. [11]
I can't take my pay before I have earned it--such pay--such pay. [11]
But I've earned my own living since. [11]
Presently the Sheikh-el-beled mounted the mastaba by the house, the holy men beside him, and pointing to the Arab youth, spoke loudly: "This sister of scorpions and crocodiles has earned a thousand deaths. [11]
At the same moment an Egyptian, who afterwards earned celebrity through the loudness of his voice, cried: "Look here, Athenian! [10]
He had probably mentioned her to his royal brother, and revenues had been granted her far exceeding poor Wawerl's dreams, and doubtless a reflection of the admiration which her son earned fell upon her, and her pride was greatly increased. [10]
The Judas of Matthew Arnold's poem would have cast his cloak over those marble shoulders, if he had found himself in St. Paul's, and have earned another respite. [6]
Suppose I do lose the money--I didn't earn it; it was earned by Palass Poucette, and he'd understand, if he knew. [11]
Now open your little mouth and say it prettily after me--once more--and again--say it twelve times quite right and I will give you a kiss--Now you have earned a pretty kiss--will you have it here or here? [10]
Edith made a little calculation that on a flush average of ninety cents a week earned, and allowing so many cents for coal and so many cents for oil, the margin for bread and tea must be small for the month. [4]
True, he did it, but to persuade him the poor woman sacrificed half the fortune her father had earned by his brush. [10]
All day long in the privacy of her work-room, Sally Sellers earned bread for the Sellers family; and all the evening Lady Gwendolen Sellers supported the Rossmore dignity. [5]
But my work in English improved, and I earned the commendation and friendship of Mr. Cheyne. [9]
That second $3 I earned home to the Scot, and we enjoyed it, but the first $3, the money I got from the General, I would have had to lend. [5]
But having made his speech, he settled back to his tobacco and into the orator's earned repose. [11]
He had earned his name, and he had no repentance. [11]
One, who, in his monastery, had earned the name of the "oil-jar," supported himself on his neighbors' arms, for his emaciated legs could hardly carry his dropsical carcass which, for the last ten years, he had fed exclusively on gourds, snails, locusts and Nile water. [10]
He has closed his long and splendid career of dissolution, for the present, and sleeps peacefully, as only they sleep who have earned their rest. [5]
Artemus Ward, during his last days, had earned London by storm with his platform humor, and they promised Mark Twain even greater success. [5]
Mr. Crewe settled himself with his feet extended, and with a complacency which he had rightly earned by leaving no stone unturned, to listen. [9]
He had devoted himself and his son to a life of penance, hoping and striving that so Glycera's soul might be snatched from damnation, and now he knew that she herself had earned her title to Heaven. [10]
Gaze upon him--ponder him well--and then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open his mouth in denial of any one of them! [5]
And with it her character--a fame rare in the history of thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, since it will not rest upon harvested selfish and sordid ambitions, but upon love, earned and freely vouchsafed. [5]
Have you ever heard of King Euergetes, who, at his birth, was named the 'well-doer,' and who has earned that of the 'evil doer' by his crimes? [10]
He held his head higher now, than he used to do under the wagon-tilt and in quarters, and doubtless he had earned a right to do so. [10]
He admitted that he knew no safer hiding-place than the cliff surrounded by fluttering sea-gulls, where Pyrrhus lived with his family and earned abundant support by fishing and serving as pilot. [10]
Very well, you have indeed earned it: and with it the gratitude of the State and the nation. [5]
And whilst remembering Hartmann, he also thought of his dead son's most loyal and dearest friend, Heinz Schorlin, who was again showing such prowess in his service, and had earned a right to recognition and reward. [10]
She taught the harp, and earned all her clothes and pocket money by her own industry. [5]
All that Dyck had earned went to purchase things he needed, and to help his fellow prisoners or their families. [11]
The giant sorrel had earned his name for a trait the opposite of amiability. [13]
At first it had been pleasant to see them unbend and have a good time after having so well earned it by the labors of the day, but now it all rasped upon his feelings and his dignity. [5]
Jimmy, fourteen, had got a place in a store, and earned two dollars a week. [4]
You've earned a good sleep, and you'll get it. [5]
You've earned a good appetite, and you'll enjoy your dinner. [5]
In Askatoon people gave Mrs. Tynan a better place socially because of her pension than they would have done if she had earned double the money which the pension brought her. [11]
On his return from his furlough Nicholas, having been joyfully welcomed by his comrades, was sent to obtain remounts and brought back from the Ukraine excellent horses which pleased him and earned him commendation from his commanders. [2]
I deceived myself for a long time by believing that I earned my living as the attorney for the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
It was the first money I had earned in my life, and a prouder day than many I have had since. [9]
His speculation hung fire in a most tantalizing way; more than that, it had absorbed nearly all the "income not earned by toil," which was at the hazard of operations he could neither control nor comprehend. [4]
He did not feel that he had earned his salary, he said, or that he was warranted in taking a three weeks' pleasure trip. [5]
There was something exceedingly comfortable about that club, where the art of catering to those who had earned the right to be catered to came as near perfection as human things attain. [9]
However much he earned, he seems to have ended every year hardly richer than he began it, and yet, as the years passed, fees came to him freely. [7]
Could he have earned with his own hands such a house, and sit Cynthia there in glory, what happiness! [9]
My grandfather had earned much commendation from his superiors. [9]
Where Psamtik had earned humiliation, I won success and glory. [10]
He was not dying like a seafarer who had fairly earned his reputation. [11]
In earned personal dignity, then, and in personal merit for what he does, it follows of necessity that he is on the same level as a rat? [5]
Many's the hard day's walking in rain and mud, and with never a penny earned, we've had down in the West. [12]
He told her--Cassy-two days after they was married, and she took the money she earned on the stage, and give it to him to pay you back on the quiet through the bank. [11]
No, but they cry out that the man who, by the sweat of his brow, has earned wealth ought to divide it up with the lazy and the self-indulgent and the shiftless. [9]

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