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Meanings of honest livelihood in English

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Usage of honest livelihood in English
1
He felt he had no right to more than an honest livelihood.
In Exile, and Other Stories
2
Hereafter I will depend upon honest work for an honest livelihood.
Walter Sherwood's Probation
3
I make a small, but honest livelihood at a different calling.
Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
4
Strange if this intellect and these hands will not supply me with an honest livelihood.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
5
We mustn't complain of his getting an honest livelihood.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
6
While favored with health, I feel competent to earn an honest livelihood for myself and family.
A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. B...
7
Still there was an honest livelihood to be made, and grandmother and mother contrived to make it.
Peter Trawl; Or, The Adventures of a Whaler
8
Of course I am a mere professional, and my primary aim is to earn an honest livelihood.
At Large
9
Work and earn an honest livelihood--'
Caught in the Net
10
I have lived, earning an honest livelihood as a poor merchant, at Khartoum and Berber, Alexandria and Cairo.
For Fortune and Glory: A Story of the Soudan War
11
You ought to have made me a laborer, and not a spoiled idler, incapable of earning an honest livelihood.
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
12
An honest livelihood, Monsieur.
The Parisians — Complete
13
He made his appearance in a new character almost every day, and left no means untried to earn an honest livelihood.
Monsieur Lecoq, v. 1
14
But the convict knows that his chances of making an honest livelihood after a conviction are many times less than before.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
15
All might have gone well, and she have gained an honest livelihood, had not an unforeseen circumstance revealed her past life.
What Can She Do?
16
Phineas, one of my men at the tan-yard has gone and 'listed this day-leftan honest livelihood to be a paid cut-throat.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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