"Eking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for war I discovered to be my snake-eyed friend. He seemed to be having difficulty with the language, and was eking out ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott
... soon as the stamp becomes dry it falls off, and quite a collection of stamps of sundry values can thus be gathered at every clearing of the box, and the postal clerk reaps thence a daily harvest that goes a long way towards the eking out the small pittance paid him by Government. It is interesting to see the directions taken by ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould
... there are grave scandals in the public medical service. The public doctor may be also a private practitioner eking out his earnings by giving a little time to public work for a mean payment. There are cases in which the position is one which no successful practitioner will accept, and where, therefore, incapables or drunkards get automatically ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw |
