Sentence Examples

1. As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law their heirs immediately succeed to their estates, only a small pittance is reserved for their support, and the poor ones are maintained at the public charge.
2. With the pittance he earned he could no longer eat as many sausages as he wanted, and the hard work made the fat melt away.
3. That he looked upon us as a sort of animals to whose share, by what accident he could not conjecture, some small pittance of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use than by its assistance to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones which Nature had not given us.
4. Ten young descendants of Marius and the Gracchi, barefooted and out at elbows, with one hand resting on the hip and the other gracefully curved above the head, stared at the traveller, the post-chaise, and the horses to these were added about fifty little vagabonds from the Papal States, who earned a pittance by diving into the Tiber at high water from the bridge of St.
5. Nor did it occur to him that the amounts asked for the paintings were a pittance of their actual value.