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Meanings of hireling in английском

португальский
mercenário
каталонский
mercenari

A person who works only for money.

mercenário
Synonyms
Examples for "pensionary"
Examples for "pensionary"
1
In the meantime, the pensionary endeavoured to renew the conferences in Holland.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
2
England demanded a disavowal of the treaty and the punishment of the pensionary.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. / The History of Engl...
3
The council-pensionary found the finances of the country in a state of great confusion.
History of Holland
4
Such, in brief, was the oration of pensionary Menyn, delivered in the French language.
History of the United Netherlands, 1587b
5
The English minister was content to accept of the terms proposed by the pensionary.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part F. / From...
Usage of hireling in английском
1
The hireling went away and returned with a maid and the Child.
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
2
Abel is notorious throughout Washington as the hireling of the lumber interests.
The Centralia Conspiracy
3
The salary you pay me is not the wage of a hireling.
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia
4
She was a hireling of Satan, to catch the souls of men.
The Happiness of Heaven / By a Father of the Society of Jesus
5
He hung up and turned to his hireling, fairly licking his chops.
Murder in the Gunroom
6
They would employ hireling writers, who would have neither justice nor mercy.
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
7
And yet you call on me, like a hireling, to be silent.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
8
A great record, if you will, to commend me to hireling service.
Love-at-Arms / Being a Narrative Excerpted from the Chronicles o...
9
It is this duty you would calmly hand over to a hireling!
Emile
10
Penn had passed his life in declaiming against a hireling ministry.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
11
But you may not call the service of a hireling noble.
Love-at-Arms / Being a Narrative Excerpted from the Chronicles o...
12
She treated me exactly as if I had been a hireling.
The Desired Woman
13
I was transformed into a mudsill and Northern hireling last spring.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 / Devoted To...
14
You, an Hidalgo, to take up with a base-born hireling cut-throat-
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
15
Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
16
Leather-heart has gone from him to be a rich man's hireling.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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Translations for hireling
португальский
mercenário
каталонский
mercenari
Hireling through the time
Hireling across language varieties
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