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  • Mainly because their peers were uninterested in such an unseemly and ill-paying profession and went off to Wall Street or white shoe law firms or high levels of the government instead.

    Nina Burleigh: Hackett Job 2008

  • Soon Megan finds herself living in a squalid studio flat near the Gloucester Road underground station and working in a coffee bar, waiting long hours for Simon to return from a distant ill-paying job.

    The Girl in the Tower Lurie, Alison 2008

  • She wrote every day, mostly for ill-paying newspapers, primarily under pseudonyms, because she needed the money to support her shabby genteel family.

    Author! Author! » 2006 » September 2006

  • She wrote every day, mostly for ill-paying newspapers, primarily under pseudonyms, because she needed the money to support her shabby genteel family.

    Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The best birthday present EVER 2006

  • Louisa wrote every day, mostly for ill-paying newspapers, primarily under pseudonyms, because she needed the money to support her family.

    Author! Author! » 2005 » August 2005

  • Louisa wrote every day, mostly for ill-paying newspapers, primarily under pseudonyms, because she needed the money to support her family.

    Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The shape of things to come 2005

  • The plain and circumstantial narrative of how Four Oaks grew, in seven years, from a poor, ill-paying, sadly neglected farm, into a beautiful home and a profitable investment, must simply stand for what it is worth.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • Was this the explanation of the contentment which the Vicar had found in his ill-paying parish?

    Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story George de Horne Vaizey 1887

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