Bread and butter

Usage examples of livelihood.

This method of livelihood has been our profession for generations, and yet when we are in the protection of the powerful Dewan Ajeet says I am a traitor to our salt.

One last good landing before he let the federal government buy his boat, the Santo Fado, out of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, and he took up cabinet making, turning his back of the livelihood that had fed seven generations of Rezendez going back to the days when Innsmouth was the whaling capital of the New World.

If Acerrae surrenders, Capua will goits livelihood is Roman, but its heart is with Italia.

Three years ago I was deprived of my mother and the means of livelihood at one stroke, for my mother had an annuity.

It was thought strange that the prohibition should come from the Orloffs, as gaming had been their principal means of gaining a livelihood before they entered on the more dangerous and certainly not more honourable profession of conspiracy.

The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty, frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage.

Silvio could have easily made his living as a violinist, though his livelihood was better and far more assured as a member of the luthier guild.

The simple actblithely ordered by King Frederick and signed by some bureaucrat who paid little attention to whatever paper was thrust in front of himhad robbed Rlinda of her dreams, and most of her livelihood.

They could not afford to have uneager dnu when the beasts were their livelihood.

Wilson, whose term of servitude had expired, preferred the mode of living among the natives, to earning his livelihood by the sweat of his brow.

Anasazi must have faced, the daily battle to wring a livelihood from an ungiving land.

Enough to eke out the livelihood she made as herbalist to the village folk in the Dorsetshire countryside.

Our ancestors, during nearly two centuries of poverty which followed the first settlement, turned their hands to the humblest ways of getting a livelihood, became shoemakers, or blacksmiths or tailors, or did the hardest and most menial and rudest work of the farm, shoveled gravel or chopped wood, without any of the effect on their character which would be likely to be felt from the permanent pursuit of such an occupation in England or Germany.

Other strong peoples besides the Mandingo and the Songhay grew strong enough to nourish wider ambitions than their forefathers and to see the chance of larger and perhaps better ways of life and livelihood.

Mecca four months of the year are devoted to the foreign guests of Allah, by attending to whose various needs all Meccans gain their livelihood.