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Sentences ending with profit

The decalogue says you shall not take away from any man his profit. [5]
Also, your father would profit. [11]
The poorest even would have glass, but home-made--a foolish expense, for the glass soon went to bits, and the pieces turned to no profit. [4]
The three years which had passed since she married had touched her not at all to her disadvantage, rather to her profit. [11]
It was an unhappy outcome of an enterprise which in itself was to prove of little profit. [5]
He couldn't decide to sacrifice anything as long as he had a margin of profit. [4]
I see among those whom I count as listeners one by whose side I have sat as a fellow-teacher, and by whose instructions I have felt myself not too old to profit. [3]
We flutter in the sunshine, and seize on all that satisfies our intellect or gratifies our senses: they gaze at the earth, but walk on with a firm step to seek power and profit. [10]
He saw through the hypocrisy of the London Company, "making religion their color, when all their aim was nothing but present profit. [4]
She carefully studied the different reviews and criticisms that had appeared on "Jane Eyre," in hopes of extracting precepts and advice from which to profit. [14]

Short sentences using profit

Where is the profit? [5]
This is the profit. [11]
Profit, about $12,000,000. [5]

Sentences containing profit two or more times

It is that the author who produced that book has had the profit of it long enough, and therefore the Government takes a profit which does not belong to it and generously gives it to the 88,000,000 of people. [5]

More example sentences with the word profit in them

What profit would you expect and certainly receive from the investment? [5]
I do not yet see how I could profit by changing the command of the Army of the Potomac; and if I did, I should not wish to do it by accepting the resignation of your commission. [7]
It takes a year to mature the canes--on the high ground three and six months longer --and there is always a chance that the annual cyclone will rip the profit out of the crop. [5]
May the gift won at the gaming table profit the holy Brothers. [10]
She is a woman, and will never suffer--" "What is there in this world that she will not suffer if it can procure her profit or pleasure? [10]
This he did with considerable profit, being everywhere received with great honors. [5]
When a book will sell by subscription, it will sell two or three times as many copies as it would in the trade; and the profit is bulkier because the retail price is greater..... You didn't ask me for a subscription-publisher. [5]
If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
Terror and grief weighed on thousands of hearts, while some tried to make a profit out of the prevailing anxiety, and others--many others--went forth, as light-hearted as ever, in pursuit of pleasure and amusement. [10]
The unmentioned fact was that Jack had taken a little flier in Oshkosh, and a hint from Henderson one evening at the Union, when the venture looked squally, had let him out of a heavy loss into a small profit, and Jack felt grateful. [4]
No pilot ever ventured to a ship on such rough seas as Gaspard ventured for small profit or glory. [11]
My profit is various in kind and degree; but the feature of it which I value most is the zest which that early experience has given to my later reading. [5]
Experience had taught us some valuable things; among others, how to take care of ourselves, how to avoid and defeat sharks and sharpers, and how to conduct our own business for our own profit and without other people's help. [5]
Well then, let us profit by his difficulties, and force him to ratify some lost liberty for every revolted city that returns to him. [10]
I'm going to try and turn it to account and profit in the end. [11]
Boards of directors, trusted by stockholders, betraying their trust, withholding information in order to profit thereby, buying and selling stock secretly; stock watering, selling to the public diluted values,--all kinds of iniquity and abuse of power which I need not go into. [9]
Besides, all commercial transactions in regard to the most sacred interests of life are hateful even to those who profit by them. [6]
It is better to take them by themselves; and, if my reader finds anything to please or profit from, I shall be contented, and he, I feel sure, will not be ungrateful. [6]
Charge it up to profit and loss. [5]
This silent homage to his superior abilities, no less than a sense of the power with which the dwarf's quick perception had already invested him, inclined the young man towards that ugly worthy, and determined him to profit by his aid. [12]
He is said to have been the first to suggest that soda-water fountains might be run at a large profit in London. [9]
At the same time he did some hurried, nervous things that had a popular charm, and that sold in plaster reproductions, to the profit of another. [8]
She said forty thousand dollars' profit was enough. [5]
Total, fifty five thousand bottles; profit clear of all expenses, twenty thousand dollars at the very lowest calculation. [5]
In circumstances where there was profit in view, he could, to be sure, be polite even to subservience and show inexhaustible patience. [10]
And he told them all about his several dignities, and how he had held this and that and the other place of honor or profit, and had once been to the legislature, and was now president of the Society of Freethinkers. [5]
Is not that the profit which you get out of the investment? [5]
And where is the profit in discharging an uncourteous brakeman and hiring another just like him? [5]
At that time the privateers, with the larger inducements of profit they offered, were getting all the best seamen. [9]
This, not for the present profit, further than as concerns my family, but as a favorable influence usable on the Other Side, where there are some who are not friendly to me. [5]
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]
Somehow, he saw the other had a grip upon essentials lacking in himself; he had his tooth in the orange, as it were, and was sucking the juice of good profit from his labours. [11]
One could watch the London markets daily, now; the profit to the wool-growers of Australia was instant and enormous. [5]
Mr. Thomas was the least excited of the group as he took his position on the sidewalk, conscious of the dignity of the occasion and that he was about to begin a duel in which both reputation and profit were concerned. [4]
The habit of the English "general practitioner" of making his profit out of the pills and potions he administered was ruinous to professional advancement and the dignity of the physician. [6]
In a sense the dead man was himself; in that case compliments and affection lavished upon that corpse went into his own till and were clear profit. [5]
This always distressed the committee, who saw a large profit to their venture in the prestige of his fame. [5]
This gospel of the blessedness of extinction has come too late to enable us to profit by it in our decennial enumeration. [4]
I was told that this factory could retail its ice, by wagon, throughout New Orleans, in the humblest dwelling-house quantities, at six or seven dollars a ton, and make a sufficient profit. [5]
He further believes that the luminous species profit by being at once recognised as unpalatable. [1]
It would be sweeter still to put them under obligations, and profit by that. [4]
I feel quite sure that the average profit to her on these books, above cost of manufacture, is all of seven hundred per cent. [5]
The fishery would support a colony until it had obtained a good foothold, and control of these fisheries would bring more profit to England than any other occupation. [4]
We can only speculate as to where that fault, that inadequacy, is, but we may perhaps profit by past experiences. [7]
Passengers carry all sorts of luxuries on board, in the firm faith that they shall be able to profit by them all. [6]
The advice was shrewd for a metropolitan editor, and it was not without its profit to the country editor. [4]
Suppose that she should profit by the wish he showed so plainly, and through jealousy bind the man whom she loved anew and more firmly than ever? [10]
But I couldn't see no profit in it. [5]
The second year, sales would reach 200,000 bottles--clear profit, say, $75,000--and in the meantime the great factory would be building in St. Louis, to cost, say, $100,000. [5]
The arrangement brought reputation to the magazine (which was published in the days when the honor of being in print was supposed by the publisher to be ample compensation to the scribe), but little profit to Mr. Irving. [4]
She not only reads, but she remembers; she not only remembers, but she records, for her own use and pleasure, and for the delight and profit of those who are privileged to look over her note-books. [6]
It is my public attitude; privately I am merely seeking my own profit. [5]
I've made my profit, and the two unfinished gowns can be added to the account. [10]
That its mere profit would have attracted him we do not believe; but its danger, uncertainty, and chance of distinction would irresistibly appeal to him. [4]
Who gets a profit out of it? [5]
Twenty points cold profit on the vast venture, now, and Aleck's imaginary brokers were shouting frantically by imaginary long-distance, "Sell! [5]
Is there much profit on a coffin? [5]
We, however, may profit now by one of his amusing apologies. [5]
Some few will profit in various ways by the change, but only that few. [5]
Little it would profit her to save her body. [9]
If we don't profit by the time now, if we don't find the right paths now, we shall not, cannot prosper. [10]
Some one will profit by my death: who it is matters not, for it is no friend of mine. [11]
Let him have plenty of them; there is profit in them for us. [5]
For in over-toyling our weake and unskilfull bodies, to satisfy this desire of present profit, we can scarce ever recover ourselves from one supply to another. [4]
He had been open-handed, had stood by his friends, and, up to a few days ago, was counted a good citizen; for many had come to profit through him. [11]
She had needed only this final proof to be convinced that in his eyes she also was but one of those brought into the world to minister to his pleasure and profit. [9]
They attend service once a week, and the rest of the time they are bent upon getting all they can of pleasure and profit for themselves. [9]
In the train of these three every lover of horses vanished from the scene, with a number of Hippias' friends, and of flower-sellers, door-keepers, and ticket-holders-in short, of all who expected to derive special pleasure or profit from the games. [10]
The exceptional cases of newspapers devoted to ideas or "causes" without regard to profit are so few as not to affect the rule. [4]
The vast number of Londoners whose names appear in the second Virginia charter shows the readiness of traders to seek profit in adventure. [4]
What's the good of keeping your mouth shut, when there's many that would profit by your telling it? [11]
A few tons of ice would have seemed to promise a better return; but in point of fact, he tells us, the warming-pans were found useful in the manufacture of sugar, and brought him in a handsome profit. [6]
At the basis of his schemes was organization and the economy which concentrated and conserved energy begets, together with its profit. [11]
The publishing business of Charles L. Webster & Co. was returning little or no profit. [5]
If his brother now, the farmer Demetrius--who was standing by the horses' heads--or some well-known agitator had held the reins, it would have been a pleasure and a profit to back such horses. [10]
But they did not know enough to profit by that; they lost their opportunity; they remained invalids; it served them right. [5]
But he does not expect the English to indulge in such noble ambitions unless he can show a profit in them. [4]
It was only necessary to hold her impetuous temper in check, and profit by the jealousy which had now been aroused in Charles's mind. [10]
I suppose we mostly are giving up ourselves to Ourselves, thinking always of our own pleasure and profit and pride, never being content, pushing on and on...., Ian, I'm not going to push on any more. [11]
There would be more profit, more silver nails for the church door, and more masses for his soul. [11]
What I say may seem foolishness to you, but I tell you, in the words of that Foolishness, that it will not profit you to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. [9]
When that old man had once said to Ann that she could scarce believe how great profit might be gained in a few years by well-directed trading with Venice, he spoke not without book. [10]
The practice of making a profit on the medicine ordered has been held up to reprobation by one at least of the orators who have preceded me. [3]
Bermuda used to make a vast annual profit out of this staple before firearms came into such general use. [5]
I could have made my profit. [12]
But the author loses all control of his property, and its profit to him may depend upon his continuing to make over his books to the same publisher. [4]
What profit is life with loss of honor? [10]
It is too late, generally, to try to teach old people, yet one may profit by it at any period of life before the sight has become too dim to be of any use. [6]
Like all his kind, he was a good judge of character, and one glance had assured him that he was speeding upon a visit of profit. [11]
Most of these kept close to his friends and intimates, to make what profit they could out of them. [10]
Let us heed it; let us profit by it. [5]
For what is it that their lifelong enemy shall now make profit by assuming to defend them against me, their lifelong friend? [7]
It is beautiful, it is noble; for its object is, not to reap profit, but to convey a pleasure to the sixteen. [5]
We will light it for his profit and our own. [10]
One hundred persons--that is the little, insignificant crowd whose bread-and-butter is to be taken away for what purpose, for what profit to anybody? [5]
And public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments: I therefore yield to popular clamor when I discuss the profit of my garden. [4]
The young man is apt to choose a profession on calculation of its profit. [4]
However, my base instinct does bring me profit sometimes; I was the only man out of thirty-two hundred who got his money back on those two operas. [5]
Lies told to injure a person and lies told to profit yourself are not justifiable, but lies told to help another person, and lies told in the public interest--oh, well, that is quite another matter. [5]
He was deep in thought awhile, then he said: "There'll be twenty thousand profit coming from the ten a year from now. [5]

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