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Sentences starting with wages

Wages and money were both better in Philadelphia, but the fund for his mother's trip to Kentucky apparently did not grow very rapidly. [5]
Wages at $600, a total of $12,000,000. [5]

Sentences ending with wages

And your Confederation, your unions are for the skilled workers, whose conditions aren't so bad,--and they're getting better every time you jack up the wages. [9]
For every master you have yet sent can find the way as well as he, so that an hundred pounds might be spared, which is more than we have all, that helps to pay him wages. [4]
I want an understanding about wages. [11]
It seems there's trouble in the shops,--in our shops, of all places,--it's been going on for some time, grumbling, dissatisfaction, and they're getting higher wages than ever before--ruinous wages. [9]
A British officer told me that in India he paid his servant 10 rupees a month, and he had 11 cousins, uncles, parents, etc., dependent upon him, and he supported them on his wages. [5]
Philip himself hastened to Philadelphia, and, as soon as the spring opened, to the mine at Ilium, and began transforming the loan he had received from Squire Montague into laborers' wages. [5]
P.S.--I belong to the Seventh Cavalry and Ninth Dragoons, I am an officer, too, and do not have to work on account of not getting any wages. [5]
I told him that he should have ten pounds, and an increase of wages. [9]
His outfit was perfect, and he could do the character without thinking about it, for he had served the trade for wages. [5]
New Zealand would pay his way, and give him wages. [5]

Short sentences using wages

Wages, four dollars a day. [5]
You have wages. [11]

Sentences containing wages two or more times

We know what wages are now, here and there and yonder; we strike an average, and say that's the wages of to-day. [5]
For a long time wages had been two hundred and fifty dollars a month; but curiously enough, as steamboats multiplied and business increased, the wages began to fall little by little. [5]
I proved to them that in a quarter of a century their wages had advanced but 30 per cent., while the cost of living had gone up 100; and that with us, in a shorter time, wages had advanced 40 per cent. [5]
Carry it through the year; he would save nearly a week's wages every two months, _your_ man nothing; thus saving five or six weeks' wages in a year, your man not a cent. [5]
Two hundred and fifty years later--pay attention now--a mechanic's wages will be--mind you, this is law, not guesswork; a mechanic's wages will then be _twenty_ cents a day! [5]
If you take a nation of 60,000,000, where average wages are $2 per day, three days' wages taken from each individual will provide $360,000,000 and pay the government's expenses. [5]
Your woman has a gown, and her whole seven weeks wages are gone; ours has a gown, and two days' wages left, to buy something else with. [5]

More example sentences with the word wages in them

Didn't I raise your wages last January? [9]
In seven hundred years wages will have risen to six times what they are now, here in your region, and farm hands will be allowed 3 cents a day, and mechanics 6. [5]
The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
And are the worst wages paid in these mills anything short of death? [9]
Conversely, take the workman settled down to work in the mill, at the best wages attainable at the time. [4]
The good American who hired me to go to his country is to pay me $12 a month, which is immense wages, you know--twenty times as much as one gets in China. [5]
I get mad when I know that my wages is cut. [9]
I said, if we tried to cut wages down to a fifty-four hour basis we'd have a strike on our hands in every mill in Hampton,--didn't I? [9]
Carnac replied he was standing firm, that he would not yield a cent increase in wages, and that, so far, all was quiet. [11]
Cost of living was down in King Charles's time, and wages were down accordingly. [11]
He paid first-class wages; but said I, What's wages when your reputation's in danger? [5]
And, speaking of wages, reminds me of prices of merchandise. [5]
He pays you wages, and the first time his daughter comes in here you refuse to do her a favor. [9]
Then the sailors' wages were enough for comfortable support; but in 1797 through the rise in the cost of living, and with an advance of thirty per cent. [11]
If we raised wages they'd live like rats anyway. [9]
There's two months' wages due the men, and----" "How? [5]
As business freshened, wages climbed gradually up to two hundred and fifty dollars--the association figure--and became firmly fixed there; and still without benefiting a member of that body, for no member was hired. [5]
What those people valued was _high wages_; it didn't seem to be a matter of any consequence to them whether the high wages would buy anything or not. [5]
Consequently, wages were twice as high in the North as they were in the South, because the one wage had that much more purchasing power than the other had. [5]
Forty pounds apiece--equal to three years' wages of an ordinary recruit of the army. [11]
Gold thou hadst to pay the wages of the soldiers of the south. [11]
All who attempted to offer resistance fell by the sword, all the citizens' possessions were seized by the soldiers, as the wages that belonged to them. [10]
This naturally suggests to me a thought about wages here. [5]
It is felt to lower the dignity of the white agricultural laborer in Queensland, and beyond a doubt it lowers his wages there. [5]
The doctor explained to Edith that he had been getting fair wages in a type-foundry until he had become too weak to go any longer to the shop. [4]
I have reason to believe that when the wages of mechanics are raised to eight and ten dollars a day, the workmen will not come at all: they will merely send their cards. [4]
With deportation, even to a limited extent, enhanced wages to white labor is mathematically certain. [7]
What wages do they pay you here? [5]
So I let the wages go, and froze to my reputation. [5]
Mrs. Marco cleared the table, placed the beer keg handy, and went away to eat her dinner of leavings in humble privacy, and the rest of us soon drifted into matters near and dear to the hearts of our sort--business and wages, of course. [5]
How to cultivate the sympathy of the employers with the employed as men, and how to interest the employed in their work beyond the mere wages they receive, is the double problem. [4]
It isn't for the sake of food and wages that I've been waiting about so long in hopes to see you. [12]
Until that moment the revolt had been personal, local, founded on a particular grievance which had to do with wages and the material struggle for existence. [9]
And now that the masters have cut your wages, the state sends its soldiers to crush you. [9]
Hey ho, now the lark is mating-- Life's sweet wages are in waiting! [11]
By and by the association published the fact that upon a certain date the wages would be raised to five hundred dollars per month. [5]
At the time that wages soared so high on the Missouri River, my chief, Mr. Bixby, went up there and learned more than a thousand miles of that stream with an ease and rapidity that were astonishing. [5]
It got so that they could not make a living, there was so much competition and wages got cut so. [5]
But the thought that it came from the hand of royalty, and that even the great Duke of Alba, the renowned Granvelles, and so many princes, counts, and barons received golden wages for their services from the Emperor's hand, put an end to these scruples. [10]
We all agree that every man has a right to work for whom he pleases, and to quit the work if it does not or the wages do not suit him. [4]
He agreed to teach me the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis for five hundred dollars, payable out of the first wages I should receive after graduating. [5]
It isn't what sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's the important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages are high in fact or only high in name. [5]
The wages were sufficient and the strike unwarranted! [11]
We win the strike, we get good wages for all. [9]
Providence added a startling detail: pulling an oar in that boat, for common seaman's wages, was a banished duke--Danish. [5]
They say that sometimes strikes do raise the wages, after a while. [8]
These men are so thoroughly acclimatised to their cold and lofty abode, that when formerly carried down by the Spaniards to the low eastern plains, and when now tempted down by high wages to the gold-washings, they suffer a frightful rate of mortality. [1]
I ought to say that I fixed the wages after the work was done, or I might have been tempted to do as some masons did who worked for me at four dollars a day. [4]
To-day, at any rate, she must not miss going to the papyrus factory, for the week's wages for her work and Arsinoe's were to be paid. [10]
I will then put a gentlemanly chap under wages and send him personally to every author of distinction in the country, and corral the rest of the signatures. [5]
Higher wages, material prosperity alone will not suffice to satisfy aspirations for a fuller self-realization, once the method by which these aspirations can be gained is glimpsed. [9]
Mr. Pindar raised our wages when we threatened to strike last fall, but he calculates to drop 'em again when the soldiers come home. [9]
At first he only got the usual birth-bounty; but now that he has got so that he can dance, there is simply no telling what wages he gets. [5]
An old impatience once hers was vanished, and Kate Heaver would have given a month's wages for one of those flashes of petulance of other days ever followed by a smile. [11]
But in Bombay, on almost any kind of wages, she could live in comfort, and keep her carriage, and have six servants in place of the woman-of-all-work she had had in her English home. [5]
You see, some of those fellows got a notion that there ought to be a union among the working-men to keep up wages, and dictate to the employers, and Mr. Dryfoos's foreman was the ringleader in the business. [8]
On the afternoon of the day that old Louis agreed to give him wages, and went to smoke a pipe with the Notary, Charley scribbled down his thoughts on this matter of personality and habit. [11]
But if, instead of sympathizing with the situation of his workman, he forms a combination with all the mills of his sort, and reduces wages merely to increase his gains, he is guilty of an act as worthy of indictment as the strike. [4]
His wages consisted of his board and clothes--"more board than clothes," as he once remarked to the writer. [5]
Some of the objects proposed by these associations are chimerical, but the agitation will doubtless go on until another element is introduced into work and wages than mere supply and demand. [4]
But that's got nothing to do with it; the _amount_ of the wages in mere coins, with meaningless names attached to them to know them by, has got nothing to do with it. [5]
Luc Baste began, not a statement of facts, but an oration on the rights of workers, their downtrodden condition and their beggarly wages. [11]
A thing which naturally interested me, as a statesman, was the matter of wages. [5]
The employer is morally bound to increase the wages if he can. [4]
I've seen six months' wages go bung in a day with a stock-rider on the gentle jupe. [11]
All these things might indeed be the wages of Satan; but if indeed it were so, he--George the Mukaukas--would show the Evil One that he was no servant of his, but devoted to the Saviour in whose mercy he trusted. [10]
Your wages are merely higher than ours in _name_, not in _fact_. [5]
He said the men got good wages, and in any case it was not for him to settle a thing of such importance. [11]
I am no longer strong, and four mouths to fill--" Nefert was shocked--as she often was in the course of her new duties--and begged Bent-Gnat to raise the wages of the woman. [10]
The legate got little enough in return for his sesterces, but Phoebicius did not restore his wages of sin, and his rage against me knew no bounds when he was transferred to the oasis at the instigation of his betrayed chief. [10]
And he can leave town whenever he wants to, if the wages don't suit him!--and they can't put him in the pillory for it. [5]
Perhaps a poet laureate could do better, but a poet laureate gets wages, and that is different. [5]
His wages are large--from an Indian point of view--and he feeds and clothes himself out of them. [5]
So said Edward Lambert to himself after the event; so, likewise, said Mrs. Townley to herself when the thing was over; so declared General Armour many a time after, and once very emphatically, just before he raised Boulter's wages. [11]
I do not know whether hotel servants in New York get any wages or not, but I do know that in some of the hotels there the feeing system in vogue is a heavy burden. [5]
Now, I put it to you, why don't he sink some of that money where it belongs--in living wages? [9]
The pilot, even in those days of trivial wages, had a princely salary--from a hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars a month, and no board to pay. [5]
Ye may say, in general terms, it is the magistrate that fixes the wages. [5]
He learned mining in a good way--by working at it for wages. [5]
Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? [5]
Eleven thousand, three hundred and sixty drachmae were due to me for wages the last time we reckoned: all the profit the master had set down to my credit since I led his caravan. [10]
The thing is, how much can you _buy_ with your wages? [5]
Two months of his wages would pay a preacher's salary for a year. [5]
We pay the highest wages in the world to-day, and the standard of living is higher in this country than anywhere else. [9]
It grew upon her that Ambroise's sins were hers and not his; that she, not he, had bartered a soul for the wages of sin. [11]
The wages of hell should depart as quickly as they came. [10]
In other words, he unlocks it for the benefit partly of men who want wages. [4]
The political economists have made England the world's great workshop, on the theory that wealth is the greatest good in life, and that with the golden streams flowing into England from a tributary world, wages would rise, food be cheap, employment constant. [4]
A man who hasn't had much experience, and doesn't think, is apt to measure a nation's prosperity or lack of prosperity by the mere size of the prevailing wages; if the wages be high, the nation is prosperous; if low, it isn't. [5]
On the other hand, a man has a right to hire whom he pleases, pay such wages as he thinks he can afford, and discharge men who do not suit him. [4]
Most of them had been discharged by the Honourable Councillor, but no one knew when he was to leave or whom to ask for his wages. [10]
Very well, this growing swarm of new pilots presently began to undermine the wages, in order to get berths. [5]
The weavers were ground down by the large manufacturers, until an energetic man built a factory in our village, and paid them better wages. [10]
I kept away from the foreign quarter, and saved my wages, and bought a goat, which lived in front of our door when I took the woman to her own hut. [10]
When wages were four hundred dollars a month on the Upper Mississippi, I have known a captain to keep such a pilot in idleness, under full pay, three months at a time, while the river was frozen up. [5]
It is better for the workman that he should prosper, for the fund of capital accumulated is that upon which they depend to give them wages in a dull time. [4]
Those were the first days of the war, when the wages of our passions first came to appal us. [9]
I think the farm probably feeds him, and that the whole of his wages, except a trifle for the priest, go to the support of his family. [5]
I pay them enough to buy pianos and billiard tables for themselves, and you tell me they want still higher wages. [9]
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. [7]

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