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