...Poor fellow! For a pittance, which was whathe asked when he presented himself, tired and hungry, it was not worthwhile to irritate him and attract his vengeance...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...Behold this maimed and broken thing, dear God; it was an humble blackman, who toiled and sweat to save a bit from the pittance paid him...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...In view of receiving this small pittance, he had toiled hard—doing over-work in order to make "buckle and strap meet...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...Bibb has labored much in lecturing, yet has collected but abare pittance...
Henry Bibb 「Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself」
...To be reduced from a plentiful supply of good, wholesome food, to the mere pittance which the Captain allowed his slaves, seemed to me beyond endurance...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...Every morning and every evening we see a long procession of men andwomen going or coming from the work, at which they have given up theirlife force for the sake of a mere pittance...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906」
...In almostevery populous village there lived a degraded wretch, the lowest ofthe low, who earned a sorry pittance by thus waiting upon thedefiled...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...For someinexplicable reason, they turn up their noses at the high wagesand comparatively light work offered, and prefer to undertake theveriest drudgery in factories for a miserable pittance...
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny 「Town Life in Australia」
...I was passing the provision store, when aman, with a wild haggard countenance, who had just received hisdaily pittance to carry home, came out...
Watkin Tench 「A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson」
...Notwithstanding the incompetency of so diminished a pittance,the daily task of the soldier and convict continued unaltered...
Watkin Tench 「A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson」
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