Meanings of precarious livelihood in inglés

I'll sooner earn a precarious livelihood by turning fisherman in this island!

Having no private means he had to earn a precarious livelihood by literature.

Minnie, a brilliant pianiste, earned a precarious livelihood by teaching music.

During the rest of his melancholy career, he obtained a precarious livelihood by different literary enterprises.

What had he done to distinguish him from thousands of other struggling men earning a precarious livelihood?

The man was only a poor devil of a Circassian, who got a precarious livelihood as a public messenger.

He was a fairly intelligent type of laborer, who obtained a more or less precarious livelihood as a docker.

It was always a precarious livelihood, dependent on finding intelligent, trusting clients in an unregulated market not short of sharks.

It was a precarious livelihood and often the "Reverend" did not have enough money to buy even ordinary necessities.

By profession he was one of those men who eke out a precarious livelihood by rowing dreamily about the waterfront in skiffs.

We can prolong the mental vision backwards until we discover them, a savage race, gaining a precarious livelihood by fishing and the chase.

We thought how many families had been engaged in this precarious livelihood, where their perilous calling was prosecuted at the risk of life itself.

The land lies low between the rivers, and, though of unparalleled fertility, yields under present conditions but a precarious livelihood to its sparse population.

It reminds me of the inhabitants of the Scilly Islands, who, it is said, earn a precarious livelihood by taking in each other's washings!

At present the rag and bone man who drives a more or less precarious livelihood by intermittent visits, is looked upon askance by prudent housewives.

Then appealing to the Moonshie's well-known charitable temper, besought him that the snakes might be restored, as by their aid he earned his precarious livelihood.