| 单词 | hand to mouth |
| 例句 | Mother peeled the egg and we divided it, crumbling it carefully from hand to mouth while the others watched us closely, as if expecting immediate results. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We live from hand to mouth, as you can see...there is no wealth here, such as your goods might have brought.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Magdalena gave birth to a baby girl, Amantina, and for years they lived hand to mouth. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gollum watched every morsel from hand to mouth, like an expectant dog by a diner’s chair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Foragers discounted the future because they lived from hand to mouth and could only preserve food or accumulate possessions with difficulty. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Laurel’s Venus Theatre and Baltimore’s Strand Theater Company are not local heavyweights; they operate hand to mouth. Women’s Voices Theater Festival goes country as it winds down 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z It quite simply is a perfect amalgam of Vietnamese and French cuisine stuffed into bread for easy transport from hand to mouth. For Banh Mi, Violet’s Bake Shoppe Has the Math Down 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z “Them taking three, six months off, they’re literally living hand to mouth.” Live music is on an indefinite hiatus. Here’s how it’s affecting touring musicians and their crews. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z These extraordinary gifts came just in time, Zollar says, because her company had been existing “hand to mouth.” With MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, this 70-year-old choreographer has big plans for the future 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Frank's stories juxtapose life how the brothers live it - hand to mouth and, often, bottle to lips - with life how they desire it. 'The Motel Life' explores brotherly love in a seedy, sad setting 2013-11-08T14:08:29Z The others followed in our parents' footsteps and live hand to mouth. Perspective | Ask Amy: Impoverished parents now ask for more 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z A high school pariah rejected by her homophobic father, Candy Darling, even at the peak of her “fame,” lived hand to mouth and slept on people’s couches. | 'Beautiful Darling': A Warhol ?Superstar,? Closer to Earth 2011-04-21T23:08:49Z A down-at-the-heels dandy who squandered his inherited fortune and now lives hand to mouth, he is a spiritual cousin of Cole Porter, whom Mr. Kline gracefully portrayed in “De-Lovely,” the otherwise execrable Porter screen biography. | 'The Extra Man': Kevin Kline Charms on New York Social Scene 2010-07-29T22:23:00Z This gives organisations a critical artistic and professional independence from their political mastersYet few of our artistic organisations have endowments, instead desperately raising money to survive on a hand to mouth basis. Arts philanthropy: culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's favourite issue 2010-12-07T16:52:00Z They only made it as far as Greece, but the experience of being a street musician living hand to mouth stayed with him. A Renaissance for an Instrument of Melancholy Magic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Most Americans once survived hand to mouth, season to season. ‘The Future of Work’ and ‘Human + Machine’ Review: Reckoning With the Robots 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z “In that period they were celebrities, but they were living in extremely poor conditions, hand to mouth,” Mr. Davies said. Arts & Leisure: When They Play Women, It?s Not Just an Act 2011-07-28T14:06:01Z Most of us live hand to mouth: we don't save, we don't invest. The Team: a theatre company who specialise in bursting American bubbles 2013-06-04T18:30:02Z Even before the 80s, a lot of people were living hand to mouth. Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton on Town Called Malice 2012-11-12T17:33:06Z The film centers on the pair’s volatile Laurel and Hardy partnership and their struggle to keep Fishbone going amid an existence that Mr. Fisher describes as “hand to mouth.” ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z "Actors like myself are living hand to mouth trying to afford rent, trying to afford access to classes so they can be ready for an audition," says Louis. Spotlight's 'two-tier' casting membership paused after backlash 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z “It was like subsistence farming — we were living hand to mouth,” he said. WA’s farmers of color caught a pandemic boom; now many fear a bust 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Even with the entire family working, there’s often not enough money for food and they live hand to mouth on credit from shopkeepers. From an old-style Afghan camera, a new view of life under the Taliban emerges 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Villages across the Atlas Mountains have lived hand to mouth, day to day, for their whole lives. Morocco earthquake: Young volunteers answer desperate calls for help 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z The father of three said his two adult children are working menial jobs and surviving “hand to mouth.” Polls open in Zimbabwe as the president known as ‘the crocodile’ seeks a second and final term 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z "We live from hand to mouth, others will end up stealing or getting into drugs," said Mandizha, who ekes out a living selling his mother's homemade kitchenware. Zimbabwe presidential hopefuls use music, stars to woo crucial youth vote 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Many Nigeriens live hand to mouth and say they’re too focused on finding food for their families to pay much attention to the escalating crisis. Niger’s military junta, 2 weeks in, digs in with cabinet appointments and rejects talks 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Friends said he was “living hand to mouth” with his few belongings of buckets, clothes and shoes strewn across his one-roomed house made of corrugated iron sheets. A man lies in a Kenya morgue. His family says he’s one of at least 35 shot dead by police this month 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z And for daily labourers who live hand to mouth, it is just as bad. Sudan conflict: The stories of survival from Bahri and Khartoum 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z "There's no treats anymore, we're living hand to mouth," he added. Childcare costs put parents off having more children 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Despite this, he said that he is lucky because "there are people in uninsulated, un-heated, often unsafe vans and caravans, living hand to mouth on the streets of Bristol". Bristol's van dwellers suffer as cost of living bites 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z With prices rising rapidly, some of her colleagues are "living hand to mouth", she says, with one not able to afford the fuel to drive to appointments if pay cheques don't arrive on time. 'I was left with no hours, no wages - nothing' 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z This human inability to foresee — or to watch out for — long-range consequences may be inherent to our kind, shaped by the millions of years when we lived from hand to mouth by hunting and gathering. We won't be the first civilization to collapse — but we may well be the last 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z On the outskirts, huge swathes of the community are living hand to mouth, without electricity or access to clean water. It's like a warzone - Haitians surrounded by turf wars 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z “We hear other people use mosquito repellents or burn anti-mosquito incense coils, which we cannot afford as we are just peasant farmers that live from hand to mouth,” she said. WHO moves to roll out first malaria vaccine in Africa 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z It hit the poor, many of whom live hand to mouth, particularly hard. Peru’s Castillo tries authoritarian turn against protests. It fails. 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Since the United States withdrew troops and the Taliban seized power, Afghanistan has plunged into an economic crisis that has pushed millions already living hand to mouth over the edge. Over a million flee as Afghanistan’s economy collapses 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Maryann Horne, of the British Red Cross, said people were living "hand to mouth, not knowing where their next meal will come from" and "asking for the most basic help to feed their children". Afghanistan: UK charities launch winter crisis appeal 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z "If flows don't pick up and there is a cold snap, or low wind speeds, we could see crazy prices again. We are living hand to mouth," a gas trader said. Analysis: 'Living hand to mouth': Europe's gas crunch shows little sign of easing 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z They often live hand to mouth, scraping out a living peddling drugs and using threats of violence to shake down street vendors and low-level criminals in neighborhoods the gang considers its turf. A place to sleep, party and kill: Abandoned L.A. buildings become MS-13 gang ‘destroyers’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z It's a tearful conversation with them as they think back to those years of living hand to mouth. Post Office scandal: 'I just forgot how to laugh' 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Even among those working, many are in casual employment, living from hand to mouth. A New Mental Health Crisis Is Raging in Gaza 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Social and economic assistance will be needed to help the tens of millions who live hand to mouth. Funeral pyres burn. Gravediggers know no rest. India's COVID-19 crisis is a 'nightmare' 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z “A lot of people here never visited a food bank before, but now they are living hand to mouth,” Mr. Meimon said. ‘I Have No Money for Food’: Among the Young, Hunger Is Rising 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The threatened famine in Yemen, caused in part by a collapse in external humanitarian funding, is a microcosm of the UN’s current hand to mouth existence. Why the UN’s 75th general assembly could be worse than the world’s worst Zoom meeting 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The president called COVID-19 “a little flu,” and warned that shutting down the economy would inflict a greater hardship on the millions who live hand to mouth. Brazil’s leader alarms critics with COVID-19 vaccine doubts 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z “Right now, we live hand to mouth,” he said of the chemicals. ‘It’s Like Having No Testing’: Coronavirus Test Results Are Still Delayed 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z With so many people living hand to mouth in these countries, the further economic cost of “staying at home” will be as fatal as the virus itself, even when it is circulating rapidly. Toxic mix of violence and virus sweeps poorest countries, warns war reporter 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z It seems ironic that a pandemic caused by contact should favour a “hand to mouth” operation. Will local, family restaurants be the surprise survivors of this crisis? | Sam Wydymus 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z “The early years sector was already operating on a hand to mouth basis after years of inadequate government funding,” he said. Covid-19 crisis could set women back decades, experts fear 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Millions of those now stuck in their homes were already living hand to mouth, feeding their families through jobs in the informal economy. Iraq’s economy is collapsing under the double blow of sinking oil prices and coronavirus lockdown 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Millions belong to an informal economy that lives hand to mouth. Dying doctors. Too many coffins. Indonesia late in battle against coronavirus 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine said the problem was adding to the stress of the situation during the coronavirus epidemic, and that in terms of supply they were "living hand to mouth". 'Limited supplies' of Covid-19 kidney treatment 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z When people are living hand to mouth in the absence of adequate social protections, a loss of income could mean starvation. World must combat looming debt meltdown in developing countries | Joseph Stiglitz 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z While the shutdown will not be easy for anyone, for players below the ATP and WTA Tours who often live hand to mouth, the concerns are more serious. Tennis players sign petition calling for financial help during coronavirus crisis 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z More than 300 million people in India live below the poverty line, often living a hand to mouth existence as daily-wage workers with nothing in reserve to keep them going. Overcome by anxiety: Indians in lockdown many can ill afford 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z There are fears that lockdowns will bring significant hardship for the continent’s poor, many of whom live hand to mouth without formal employment. Coronavirus cases in Africa pass 2,400 amid fears for health services 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z He added that measures such as self-isolation and staying away from work are difficult for the communities he serves, where many people live hand to mouth. 'Community infections could happen any time': Kenya prepares for Covid-19 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z For scholars who often live hand to mouth under the best circumstances while completing their education, the financial consequences of the firings are dire. Column: UC's harsh response to a student strike shows it's a business more than a university 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z But they say uncertainty around funding affects their ability to plan and one said they were "living from hand to mouth, year to year". Children's respite care cut by hospice 'crisis' 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Students and artists get by, enriching the city with their inexhaustible creativity and self-exploitation, living hand to mouth while working on their concert or video or 1,000-page novel. German novelists on the fall of the Berlin wall: ‘It was a source of energy we lived off for years’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z “It was only hand to mouth in terms of food production,” she explained. How a rural women's network in sub-Saharan Africa became a model for fighting the climate crisis 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z “They got used to dealing with tour groups and agents that fed them hand to mouth, and that created less competitiveness.” Tourism was a powerful economic engine in Thailand. Then a boat full of Chinese sank 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z On the wall, an indeterminate shade of yellow, a friend had scribbled, in pencil, some inspirational sayings: “I seek opportunity, not security. I refuse to live from hand to mouth.” Ireland’s Strange, Cruel System for Asylum Seekers 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z At the time, the band was touring and recording constantly, living hand to mouth on what the band earned. Low: ‘We want to punch new holes in the possibilities of music’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The few that dominate property hire the many that live hand to mouth and then squeeze these workers to work harder and more efficiently. Boots Riley takes on the nightmare of American capitalism 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Most were living hand to mouth on the streets, some were pregnant, many had lost their children. Modern slavery: how we exposed deadly sex trafficking in US prisons 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “We were living hand to mouth, you know, never sure whether we were going to be able to open the doors the following month,” he says. 'I felt exposed online': how to disappear from the internet 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Bathrooms are overcrowded, living conditions are austere, and inhabitants live hand to mouth – but it is a functioning shelter. 'I love Rome, but Rome doesn't love us': the city's new migrant crisis 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Before Rich got this job we were living hand to mouth. How the plight to save a bird species shows how to bridge the red/blue divide 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z “It’s giving us a little bit of a cushion to put some money away, because living in the city is kind of hand to mouth.” Airbnb becomes flash point in the District’s hot debate over gentrification 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z It was a hard, hand to mouth existence, living out of a suitcase. Where Trump is seen as saviour - BBC News 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z She used to live in White Center, and remembers Lee’s from when she and her kids were living hand to mouth. Gritty and gentrified, White Center celebrates diversity and community 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “I live from hand to mouth,” he told the Times in 2010. Stanley Greene, photographer of indelible moments of war and disaster, dies at 68 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z He doesn’t see why the Internal Revenue Service is making demands of a man like himself getting by hand to mouth. God and coal: Trump won on both issues in West Virginia but inspires doubt 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “We live hand to mouth, waiting for the paycheck at the end of the month,” Ms. Begum said, tears in her eyes. Protests in Bangladesh Shake a Global Workshop for Apparel 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z “If you’re working in the fields you are living hand to mouth every single day – it’s a really hard existence,” said Wilson. Archaeologist defies sceptics in pursuit of lost city of Trellech 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z True, putting cash in the pockets of rich savers hardly seems as effective as giving cash to poor people who live hand to mouth. Will Trump herald a US economic boom? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z During this period, Carter had a series of disastrous love affairs, and at least one abortion, while living hand to mouth on the proceeds of journalism and the odd royalty cheque from her early novels. Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Even then, someone who is earning 200% of the adjusted, higher poverty rate is still pretty much living hand to mouth. America is finally back on its feet but the poor are being left behind 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It was a huge windfall for people who were until then living hand to mouth. Oil clean-up pledge divides Nigerians - BBC News 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Children are particularly susceptible to lead poisoning due to both their tendency to play on the ground and for hand to mouth behavior. Life in Missouri's Fading Old Lead Belt 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z He more or less lives hand to mouth, funding his refugee work through a Go Fund Me campaign. Former UW-Oshkosh student helps refugees in Greece 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Emotionally, financially, her vulnerable heroines live from hand to mouth. Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The economy is limping, and many residents are living from hand to mouth. Ukraine Separatists Feel Abandoned as Moscow’s Attention Shifts 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z "Its financial sustainability - it seemed to exist hand to mouth - and the lack of decent measures on what it was delivering for its money, and we took action on both those counts." Kids Company was not given 'special treatment' amid concerns - BBC News 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z It may not seem high by U.S. standards, but experts note it places an unfair burden on villagers who already live hand to mouth. In India, Climate Change Ranks Behind Coal for Development 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z "These are small-scale miners living hand to mouth. They cannot set up a proper mine." Gold fever brings tens of thousands to a Deadwood in Uganda 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Football is a joke - half a dozen teams grab the trophies between them and spend hundreds of millions of pounds on players - the rest are just cannon fodder living hand to mouth. Ten transfer deadline-defining deals 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z “When you live hand to mouth your whole life and you’re dumped that kind of money, you can’t handle it,” he said. Oregon’s ‘Rocketguy’ rebounding after earthly struggles 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z But the term “hand to mouth” is not as straightforward as it seems. Outlaw economics 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z "We've got no savings or anything like that. We've got no insurance, no life insurance, nothing like that because it's hand to mouth, living day to day. We can't plan for the future." Liverpool Getting By report finds poor families struggling 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Moderate rebels “are living literally hand to mouth,” he said. The rise and ugly fall of a moderate Syrian rebel offers lessons for the West 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z "I think it's going to be kind of hand to mouth in terms of that market." Sony: Europe holiday sales of PlayStation 4 'inventory challenged' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z "I wasn't living hand to mouth, but it wasn't $81 million," Mitchell was quoted as saying. Psychologist admits he waterboarded al Qaeda suspects: report 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Focusing in on American homeowners, the researchers find that of those with small mortgages, only 20% live hand to mouth. Outlaw economics 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Its research station has lived hand to mouth, Geist says, and over time debts built up. Galápagos research center may shut down 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “If you are living hand to mouth every month you’re not going to improve your standard of living and you’re not going to scale up.” PayPal Co-Founder Takes Aim at Credit Card Industry With New Lending App 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z The authors dubbed this demo the “wealthy hand to mouth,” a group that tends to be older, educated and high-earning—and yet can’t seem to get ahead. How To Keep Lifestyle Inflation From Sabotaging Your Finances 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Spirit, her friend said, lived hand to mouth on government assistance. In Death, Florida Family Reveals a Sad Spiral of Domestic Violence 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Others live hand to mouth on zero-hours contracts or agency work. Why Britain needs a pay rise 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Others live hand to mouth because they are careless with the money they earn and simply spend until it’s gone. The One Way to Know How Much You're Really Spending 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z For decades, college sports fans cheered for their alma maters without worrying that the best coaches earn millions of dollars while the best players live hand to mouth. Players: 0; Colleges: $10,000,000,000 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Children, especially under age 3, live hand to mouth in the most literal way. Button batteries continue to pose health risks for children 2014-04-09T19:29:16Z The joy of plant to hand to mouth is so great that it can sometimes compensate for the absence of robust flavor. Sleuthing The Secrets To A Scrumptious Strawberry 2014-03-18T12:30:28Z Not to mention the fact that for many Social Security beneficiaries who live hand to mouth, not getting a check would be catastrophic. A payment plan no better than Madoff’s 2013-09-27T00:40:44Z People lived hand to mouth with no regular incomes, with whole families living in one room. Jack The Ripper in Twitter real time 2013-08-22T23:22:05Z I was brought up in a one-bed flat with five of us, hand to mouth. Why do people still buy personalised number plates? 2013-05-05T23:30:16Z Surely I work to get paid to save up for a house to buy, not simply to pay bills,rent, and live hand to mouth otherwise what would be the point in that? Plans to tackle housing shortage 2012-08-23T09:20:27Z But for nonprofit organizations living hand to mouth after years of cutbacks in state, federal and foundation aid, the cash could have a huge impact. Record Penn State fine to help abused kids 2012-07-25T06:35:08Z Suburbs are seeing increases in poverty, including in such political battlegrounds as Colorado, Florida and Nevada, where voters are coping with a new norm of living hand to mouth. U.S. poverty highest in nearly 50 years 2012-07-23T11:17:00Z But most disabled people are living hand to mouth. Tanni Grey-Thompson warns that Paralympic legacy threatened by cuts 2012-05-20T18:59:50Z Nile University is now surviving hand to mouth. Universities clash by the Nile 2012-05-02T17:20:25.553Z The business is p. 276not respectable; those engaged in it are men of the lowest class, ignorant, drunken, and improvident, living from hand to mouth, never saving a penny against a rainy day. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z "And to think that now he should be living from hand to mouth on the Continent!" he said at last, and compressed his lips significantly. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Nature had endowed him with a splendid physique, but he wrecked himself, traveling downward, until he barely lived from hand to mouth. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z But he lives from hand to mouth and cannot afford water purification tablets; the free supply he got in 2010 ran out long ago. Haiti?s Cholera Outraced the Experts and Tainted the U.N. 2012-03-31T20:57:22Z They lived from “hand to mouth,” and if they had lived in our day they would, every one of them, have been denominated “tramps,” and would have been amenable to our modern laws of vagrancy. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z "Smaller stars have to manufacture the radiant heat which they emit, living from hand to mouth; the giant stars merely leak radiant heat from their store." Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z More than once they were entirely without food, and as a rule they lived from hand to mouth. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z If men living from hand to mouth and distracted by household cares could achieve so much, why should not he who had his independence and his place in the world? Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z He was down and out, living from hand to mouth, his friends gone, his clothes in rags. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z “People in Kinshasa are so poor, they are living hand to mouth,” said Théodore Trefon, a researcher at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium. Kinshasa Journal: In Congolese Capital, ?Power Cut? Applies to Food 2012-01-02T22:50:10Z They would live entirely from hand to mouth. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Besides that, the majority of them have families, and live from hand to mouth with nothing between them and starvation but the pay envelope Saturday night. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z If every one was to live from hand to mouth, who would keep a calf until it became a heifer, or a lamb to become a sheep? Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Now he must replace the bounty of his master which sheltered, clothed, and fed him comfortably all his life by living from hand to mouth. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z As he lives from hand to mouth, alternating between hunger and superfluity, he kills more animals than he can eat, and robs and maltreats men more than is necessary. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z There would be no intermission of the labour necessary to provide a supply of food from hand to mouth, even in the season when wild fruits were abundant. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Faith is content to live "from hand to mouth," enjoying each blessing from God as it comes. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z The army is living from hand to mouth,” wrote the younger Robespierre in September 1793. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Persons in straitened circumstances, who actually live from hand to mouth, deposit their hard-earned savings for a twelvemonth to be spent on this grand festival. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z During this period he and his family lived literally from hand to mouth, and more than once subsisted upon what was virtually the charity of friends. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Each would of course live from hand to mouth, when the means of living were constantly exposed to the violence of the more powerful. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Some people who live hand to mouth and collect a lot of paper checks like to be near a branch. Your Money: Bank Fees on Debit Cards Have Some Customers Looking to Switch 2011-09-30T22:20:46Z We've got an economy where lots of people live on a virtual hand to mouth existence. Insight: Beautiful Cornwall's struggle shows UK plight 2011-09-27T10:10:11Z With a community living from hand to mouth like the Eastern, it is difficult to know what they would do without the ubiquitous bakal. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z The workingmen, who, not having any savings, formerly lived from hand to mouth, in the first moments lacked bread. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z He says we live from hand to mouth, and so in a sense we do. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z A beggar he entered the holy city, and lived from hand to mouth on the alms of compassionate pilgrims. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z W. S. Landor From this time forward Chaucer seems to have lived from hand to mouth. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z "They say the young fellow left a bad character behind him, and that his visits mean no good to any honest girl, especially a poor workingman's child, who lives from hand to mouth." Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z It was absurd for one man to possess such gigantic wealth, and for several hundred thousand to live from hand to mouth. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Fortunately, Dickens abhorred living, as it were, from hand to mouth, and thus diminished the dangers to which, I cannot help thinking, Thackeray at times almost succumbed. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Since then, Mr. Liao has survived hand to mouth and devoted himself to collecting the memories of people on the margins of society. Dissident Chinese Writer Flees to Germany 2011-07-12T13:50:19Z Living from hand to mouth on the coarsest food, and with the oddest assortment of rags for clothing possible to be imagined, they really seemed to be perfectly happy. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z They lived after the manner of their kind,—absolutely from hand to mouth, taking no thought for the morrow. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z When he did accept the terms and the ready cash, every halfpenny of it went to complete streets on his own account; and so he lived, as it were, from hand to mouth. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z But although his fortune was on the rise, he and his family were still living hand to mouth. The eccentric Mr Liu 2011-06-14T22:08:14Z They are living from hand to mouth themselves now. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z A Minister casually pitchforked, so to speak, into office, and living from hand to mouth, might be tempted to a desperate venture. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z I understand that my workers need more money, it's a hand to mouth existence for them. Wage concern 2011-05-25T16:03:26Z Barlow was an ignorant vagabond with no permanent home, living from hand to mouth, and a crinkling tool in the hands of old Eversole. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Living from hand to mouth, rarely, if ever, taking the trouble to cultivate his tiny domain properly, the true Guajiro is a perfect illustration of the fact that "man wants but little here below." Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Some of my critics call it my best; but I have lost faith in them as in myself, and I write as I live—from hand to mouth. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z My reply is, just as I live—from hand to mouth! Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z He was an old man now, and down and out, living from hand to mouth. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z The wives and daughters of these men share their fate and fortune, living from hand to mouth. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z We all agreed to live from hand to mouth upon what we could come by. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z "From hand to mouth!" said Herr L�bbener, who was busy in the same way. The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. I. 2010-12-20T17:12:22.067Z In view of this approaching revolution, both the Church and the world were regarded as living from hand to mouth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Well, rent we can’t say nothing about; but if we goes on as some people do, living from hand to mouth and back again, why, where are we? Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z “At the end of the day, it almost was the ultimate hand to mouth,” he said. Executives Questioned on the Demise of Bear Stearns 2010-05-05T17:04:00Z It's far more fraught, a far more hand to mouth existence. Retro chaos 2010-03-19T12:28:00Z They live entirely from hand to mouth, to use an expressive term, and never take heed for the morrow. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands The potato, above all other crops, enables the cultivator to live from hand to mouth, and coupled with a landlord system which takes away all above mere subsistence, this “de-moralizing esculent” aided the apparent overpopulation. Races and Immigrants in America It was little wonder that poor young farmers who lived from hand to mouth to eke out an existence should deem him most fortunate, and that the girls should regard him with favor. The Cottage of Delight A Novel In Naples they had entered into a feckless, laughing world, where they had lived from hand to mouth, and made friends in every street, and 'drifted about the bottom.' The Furnace Men who live in this way from hand to mouth have no time nor strength to make arrangements so as to get food and clothes in the easiest way. Political economy I have heard of men living from hand to mouth," he told Claire; "for twenty years I have lived from table to mouth—always the same mouth, seldom twice the same table. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion I place no reliance upon my son's stability of character; he only lives from hand to mouth. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The people live, to use a common phrase, "from hand to mouth,"—that is, they lay in no stores whatever, and trust to the coming day to supply its own necessities. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time Thus successful dramatists, instead of living from hand to mouth, like their predecessors of the previous generation, found themselves in comfortable and even opulent circumstances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" David gathered a band of followers and for a time lived as an outlaw, hiding in caves, plundering farms, living from hand to mouth. The Bible Story This sediment forms the body of our poor, the contingent that lives, always from hand to mouth, with no provision and no means of providing for the morrow. The Children of the Poor What a pinch must this be on the poor, who live only from hand to mouth, and buy their coals, poor souls! some by the half peck. Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies Lucy raised hand to mouth, then backed away flinching as if she had been struck. Voyage To Eternity Sue, great man as he was, would not have dared to inaugurate the system only adopted somewhat later by Alexandre Dumas the Elder, namely, that of writing "from hand to mouth." An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections We live confusedly, and from hand to mouth. Toilers of the Sea A caravan, as a rule, must live from hand to mouth, and its march becomes simply a regulated procession through a chain of markets. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 He was fed by driblets from day to day, and lived from hand to mouth while the siege of Tournai proceeded to the east of him. Malplaquet At eighteen years of age her brother Edward would have dragged on from hand to mouth, from hour to hour, from penny to penny, until eighty. Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read The “hand to mouth” liver is almost always a man of all work, thinking little of exchange. Rural Health and Welfare Man is not satisfied with 'hand to mouth.' Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation They live from hand to mouth, exercising no forecast, making no provision for the morrow. The Pearl of India Brutalised, however, as they are, living from hand to mouth, and suffering from the diseases incident to poverty and the climate, and from others introduced from Europe, they appear tolerably contented. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 You are simply living from hand to mouth, growing older every day with nothing to show for the time you have spent. Checkers A Hard-luck Story Till then they must live in debt, from hand to mouth, and without hope of growth in material comfort. The Hills and the Vale It was now living from hand to mouth, so to speak. Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. Henry Denvil had never been an epicure; now he lived from hand to mouth. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 Nearly always he had been forced to live from hand to mouth. Violence and the Labor Movement Oh, plenty of institutions to take in just such as she and she’d be a deal better off than living from hand to mouth as she has always done. A Sunny Little Lass Melchizedek made a movement of hand to mouth, in a universal gesture of amusement. Border, Breed Nor Birth Many a man listens to the preacher whose life is, indeed, from hand to mouth. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching But the trade is poor; it lives from hand to mouth, putting its all into experiments, and forced to sell its vintages. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The trade-unionists in the Latin countries dislike to pay dues, and the whole organized labor movement as a result lives constantly from hand to mouth. Violence and the Labor Movement Steele, who lived from hand to mouth, and wrote, as he lived, on the impulse of the moment, had unwittingly begun a work destined to form an epoch in English literature. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) "Why, they are living from hand to mouth, steeped in poverty." Mark Mason's Victory He knew in his nervousness that he was living at best from day to day and from hand to mouth; yet he had succeeded, he believed, in avoiding a mistake. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II Such a man conducts his business from hand to mouth, in constant fear. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures It was the rule of his life to cast all cares from him, and his grand principle to live from hand to mouth. Is He Popenjoy? He likes to live from hand to mouth, and that satisfies him. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Back in the distant hills they toil not, but live from hand to mouth in a pitiful state of degeneration. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry At Saloniki particularly the people were obliged to live from hand to mouth, the supply boats being able to bring in only enough flour to last two days. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War Ineradicably frivolous, culpably negligent of the morrow, whimsically vain and living all his days from hand to mouth, he had the faculty of drawing upon himself the pity, and even the contempt, of his associates. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The Australasian colonist lives from hand to mouth, carries on his trade with borrowed money, and pays his way by the prompt disposal of his produce. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 9: The Expansion of England It stopped because it could not raise enough money to buy a ship-load of jute, and was obliged to buy from hand to mouth from retailers. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule They are, as a class, in a condition of miserable poverty, living from hand to mouth, idle, disreputable, restless, without any settled homes, and for the most part without even habitations. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement She had lived from hand to mouth on her precarious happiness, contented if she could stave off the evil day. The Combined Maze Too lazy to work, they lived from hand to mouth; and not one out of ten of the many thousands of them who went into the Confederate Army knew what they were fighting for. True To His Colors Accustomed as he was to live from "hand to mouth," he had never troubled himself much about accumulating more than would answer his immediate needs. Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves They are not satisfied to have just enough, to live from hand to mouth. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The party is merely living from hand to mouth as an anti-Tory party, hoping to profit by the mistakes of its rival. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals They use us to feed them, give us the absolute minimum in return, and at the same time cut us off from the knowledge that will get us out of this hand to mouth existence. Deathworld Here the peasant is generally sunk to the position of the proletaire living from hand to mouth: he has nothing to lose, but everything to gain by “partition.” The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The profession of an artist was regarded as less than an industry, being a sort of hand to mouth existence in which the unfortunate was glad to accept whatever work the artisan could give him. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders His method of work was equally irregular, and he lived from hand to mouth. A Romantic Young Lady "Waste all you earn and die in the workhouse" is at present their advice to the worker, and the worker who follows that advice and who lives from hand to mouth easily becomes a pauper. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Henry IV. had grown accustomed to live from hand to mouth, and had maintained himself on the throne rather because Englishmen needed a king than because he was himself a great ruler. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Vast silver goblets of antique shape were used for wine glasses, and these, passing rapidly from hand to mouth, soon produced an abundance of good-humour among the guests. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Not caring for the future, not aspiring after getting on in life, living from hand to mouth, they manage to show a radiant countenance. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story Now, after the work aircraft have done in war, and with the need to provide the world with air fleets, the industry need live no longer from hand to mouth. Learning to Fly A Practical Manual for Beginners Vast numbers of British workers live from hand to mouth. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals We ain't always to go on shilly-shallying, spending the money, and ruining the business, and living from hand to mouth, as though there was no end to anything. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm If their earnings would ever overtake their expenses and give a little margin, they might do better; but buying, as they are obliged to do, from hand to mouth, they buy at extravagant prices. Change in the Village I knew it was hand to mouth with Dudley: he had no cash to call on but the mine output, and immediate payments had to be made on the machinery we were using. The La Chance Mine Mystery Living only from day to day, usually from hand to mouth, and nearly always discontented, this sort of Mexican was excellent material out of which to make a revolutionist. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers It came to a man who gave a third of his money in alms and who lived from hand to mouth, often borrowing on his revenues before he got them. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England The roomy, comfortable caravan was sold, and an old lumbering machine hired each summer instead; while in winter the party lived from hand to mouth on their wits, putting up here, there, and anyhow. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Such men as Martin prefer to live from hand to mouth in a great city, rather than go to the country, where they would have less difficulty in earning an honest living. Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready It was a curious friendship that had developed between them—a friendship which lived from hand to mouth, which had the appearance of being more than a friendship, in which nothing was premeditated. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel This proceeding was repeated at intervals of a day or two, and finally led to the conclusion that the farmer was living from hand to mouth certainly, and in all probability on charity. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Crane spent several days in the town, living from hand to mouth and waiting for his money. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Granny Withers scandalized beyond further speech clapped hand to mouth, rolled her eyes in dismay. Blue Ridge Country His argument, had he expressed it in so many words, would have been something like the following: We are poor; we are living from hand to mouth. The Goose Man The average man lives mentally from hand to mouth, and troubles as little about ultimate explanations as he does about the exhaustion of the coal supply. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Folks steals and drinks whiskey and lives from hand to mouth now all the time. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Even when free he lived from hand to mouth. Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant We lived the year from hand to mouth. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Further, the poor laws discourage frugality, and diminish the power and the will of the common people to save, and they live from hand to mouth without thought of the future. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Some of my best friends have to live from hand to mouth, and some are multimillionaires. Psychology and Social Sanity Why, my dear boy, I am only living from hand to mouth. The Golden Magnet Accustomed to live from hand to mouth, this made him feel very rich. Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant And you know, since I lost my fortune, I’ve been living almost from hand to mouth. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive We've been living from hand to mouth for a good while. The House of Toys I live from hand to mouth, and, with reverence be it spoken, I only live for myself; there all my designs terminate. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I We live from hand to mouth, and have nothing to subsist on but what we collect with armed parties.... The Spirit of Lafayette They do not provide regular meals, but live from hand to mouth by hunting and fishing. The Nursery, June 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People These native mice, I imagine, have to take many precautions to prevent their winter stores being plundered by the squirrels, who live, as it were, from hand to mouth. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers After the war, Bill lived from hand to mouth, like most frontier dwellers. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado They had no home and no fortune, but lived from hand to mouth, in the most precarious way, and both of them were dead before their son was two years old. American Men of Mind Now that the men had wives and children to provide for, they no longer lived "from hand to mouth," hoping to make a fortune by some lucky stroke, and then to leave the colony forever. Strange Stories from History for Young People As far as information went we lived from hand to mouth; all the orders came from Bloemfontein, and they seldom provided for more than a day at a time. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Never knew anybody could live from hand to mouth like this. Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School They are neatly dressed in thin clothes, through which their slightly angular figures show, and have nervous movements of hand to mouth, and quick gentle voices, slightly staccato, what is called "chee chee," I believe. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah In the inoffensive sense of the term, he was a poor man; that is, he lived from hand to mouth, and had not saved a single dollar with which to meet the misfortunes of life. Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway Throughout the seventies and well into the eighties, in Wyoming, Dakota, western Kansas and Nebraska, New Mexico, and west Texas, courts were idle most of the time, and lawyers lived from hand to mouth. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier He at least is not fatigued, and to readers who live from hand to mouth, and have no memories, there is no reason why he should ever grow fatiguing. My Contemporaries In Fiction He was lecturing in America at the time, and must have been living a hand to mouth life with his story, for he brought it to an abrupt and rather disastrous conclusion. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile After that he lives from hand to mouth. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 His hand to mouth existence in London for some months is among the most interesting things in literature. Immortal Memories There was only enough nerve-force to enable one to live from hand to mouth. The Daughters of Danaus Communities which live wholly from hand to mouth never make much progress in the useful arts. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power On all others, politics included, they talk from hand to mouth, offering you a cold hash of their favorite morning paper. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 "Till now he is a rich man, living in luxury,166 while we are living from hand to mouth, and poor father is an exile somewhere." Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret For it is a great deal easier to live from hand to mouth than to live by principle. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. The only author I ever knew personally, sank into it, poor fellow, because he could do nothing else; and, he led a wretched existence from hand to mouth! She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. They live from hand to mouth, ready at any moment to steal a gem-casket or to take part in a revolution, and preserving through it all their character as gentlemen and their irresistible conceit. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika There are many in Rome who live from hand to mouth. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People He had to live from hand to mouth. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Now he lodged in a small hotel farther down the road, living from hand to mouth, and doing a day's work here and there when chance offered. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble He had to work harder as a shoemaker than he would have done as a musician, but it was from hand to mouth. Girls and Women He will, in all probability, be a common laborer, living "from hand to mouth," with nothing laid by for a rainy day. Plain Facts for Old and Young The persons who patronize these establishments are mainly vagrants, men who live from hand to mouth, and who will not be received by the humblest boarding-house. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City They had lived from hand to mouth, the demands of a hard and dangerous profession alternating with bouts of foolish revelry. The Stowaway Girl Of a verity he was living from hand to mouth; such abject poverty he had never known, not even in the Southland by the Blood Reserve. The Outcasts "We're living from hand to mouth, papa," they would say, when an unwonted scarcity occurred. The Making of Mary The proprietors have been deprived of their power to sue for rents, consequently a family requires but little ready money to rub on from hand to mouth. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris In far separated cabins, held in the quarantine of mired roads, men and women have lived, from hand to mouth, sinking into a dour and melancholy apathy. A Pagan of the Hills Foreign governments and our own government live from hand to mouth and have fewer deep plans than people might suppose. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View They are ground to the very earth by iniquitous taxation, and only manage to live from hand to mouth in what should be a land of plenty. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. No European Bourse is more readily or lastingly affected by local political troubles than the general trade of a land like Morocco, in which men live so much from hand to mouth. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond They live from hand to mouth, and never rise above the expedients and temporizing policy of advocates. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris The life of such as were allowed to remain must have been wild and strange, alternating between the populous alacrity of the fishing season and the hand to mouth struggle of the long winter months. The Story of Newfoundland The general appearance was higgledy-piggledy—hand to mouth domesticity mixed up with the work by which the young man earned, or tried to earn, his living. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' The few French people who were freemen, lived in what is now the St. Boniface side of the river, were only living from hand to mouth, and the Company's people were little better provided. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba This proceeding naturally irritated the struggle somewhat; and subscriptions for the support of those who, habituated to live from hand to mouth, had saved nothing, were called for with renewed importunity. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852 But there is a scum, who lived from hand to mouth during the Empire, and which infests the restaurants and the public places. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris He was an Englishman, had probably been upon the stage, and lived from hand to mouth, nobody knew how, until we took him up, and he took us in most pitiably. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics Stamford has done excellent work for thirty years; he has been neither idle nor thriftless, and he lives from hand to mouth still. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Wherever Sir George Grey went in Australia, he found the natives living from hand to mouth, on roots and the reward of the chase. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. He shuddered at the prospect of a poor preacher's hand to mouth existence. "Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues A population cosmopolitan and shifting, living from hand to mouth, vagrants of the road or of the street corner, finding life a warm and easy thing in this long garden shut between hills and sea. The Lee Shore He lived from hand to mouth in the seaport town, and slept, as he was well accustomed to sleep, in holes and corners. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V It always took all I could earn, before, to keep me from hand to mouth. The Other Girls "No, sir; not my native town," replied Fenton; "but I have resided here from hand to mouth long enough to know almost every individual in the barony at large." The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Many of you live from hand to mouth. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman—just from hand to mouth. A Doll's House From a man working with capital he's come down to a man financing things from hand to mouth. The Devil's Garden They never had anything to store, all was from hand to mouth; so one or two bad crops broke them. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Politically, he has lived from hand to mouth. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) In vain Mr. G. leaping up and taking crook in hand, put hand to mouth and halloed them back to Home-Rule fold. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892 Such a practice is worse than living from hand to mouth: it is living upon one's own vitals. Thrift “Fancy Shirley in this place, living from hand to mouth,” went on the judge. The Lion and The Mouse A Story Of American Life They live, as it were, from hand to mouth. Everyday Foods in War Time I live at hand to mouth in etymology. Mr. Britling Sees It Through He was uneducated, illiterate, content with living from hand to mouth. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him Like thriftless individuals, they live from hand to mouth, and are always poor and miserable. Thrift More glorious goblets than these for the drinking of wine, went never from hand to mouth. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I They were living from hand to mouth, with seemingly no anxieties at all—and yet, too, they were living without God, and with very little hope. Across China on Foot There is only one girl in our chorus who has a rich admirer; all the rest of us live from hand to mouth on bread and kvass. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Bridger clapped hand to mouth and uttered his old war cry before he drained his share of the fiery fluid. The Covered Wagon No class ever accomplished anything that lived from hand to mouth. Thrift On tother hand, his brother South Lived very much from hand to mouth. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell He lived from hand to mouth; struggled every hour to meet the exigencies of the hour that followed. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 He put hand to mouth and hallooed down the lane. Hillsboro People When I get fairly into my lecture work at Oxford I always find the lecture would come better some other way, just before it is given, and so work from hand to mouth. The Life of John Ruskin That green country boy has made a fortune, while I, an experienced man of the world, have to live from hand to mouth. Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake Trade was slack in the sweating dens, and Moses, who had always lived from hand to mouth, had latterly held less than ever between the one and the other. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People He was always poor, and often gave away all the little he had, and lived from hand to mouth. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character "And since then you have lived from hand to mouth, with those others." The Reason Why The girl is considered to be well, if she is not too ill to go to school; and she therefore lives from hand to mouth, as respects her constitution, and lays up nothing for emergencies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 They lived from hand to mouth, as it were, without arriving at any systematic tradition. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England There is a hand to mouth administration," said an anonymous letter addressed to the king and Madame de Pompadour, "but there is no longer any hope of government. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 I live from hand to mouth, from day to day, and have I but to supplie my present and ordinarie needs I am satisfied…. New Irish Comedies When war broke out he had thrown up the sponge altogether and "gone yellow"; was living from hand to mouth among the Chinese. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 To a community the mass of which lives from hand to mouth, this was a most serious loss. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 A house full of little children—we lived from hand to mouth. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 You ain't even living from hand to mouth, if the hand don't have something in it to put to the mouth. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 True; and how many hundreds are there that live from hand to mouth all the days of their life? Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are It was a hand to mouth way of living, for he was often, often disappointed. Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans Ninety per cent of the population of India lives from hand to mouth and depends for sustenance upon the crops raised upon little patches of ground which in America would be too insignificant for consideration. Modern India It seems probable that mediocrity of fortune would have been disposed to be less magnanimous than the Collegians, who lived from hand to mouth—from the pawnbroker's hand to the day's dinner. Little Dorrit Any class of men that lives from hand to mouth will ever be an inferior class. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Month after month, the little Bell Company lived from hand to mouth. The History of the Telephone In fact, he was opposed heart and soul to prophetic legislation; he would live, legislatively, from hand to mouth. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire He was simply living from hand to mouth, and but for good luck he would have had to go hungry, and perhaps have been obliged to sleep out doors. Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience At eighteen he would have dragged on from hand to mouth, from hour to hour, from penny to penny, until eighty. Little Dorrit But the trade is poor; it lives from hand to mouth, putting its all into experiments, and forced to sell its vintages. The Silverado Squatters He knew besides that the Athelnys lived from hand to mouth, and with their large family had neither space nor money to entertain a stranger. Of Human Bondage There she is with plenty of money, and a house and farm, and horses, and comfort, and here am I living from hand to mouth — a needy adventurer. Far from the Madding Crowd The winter went, and the spring came, and found them still living thus from hand to mouth, hanging on day by day, with literally not a month's wages between them and starvation. The Jungle There she is with plenty of money, and a house and farm, and horses, and comfort, and here am I living from hand to mouth—a needy adventurer. Far from the Madding Crowd He lived from hand to mouth, never quite growing up. The Centaur The people who dwelt here lived from hand to mouth. Of Human Bondage The young man was with difficulty living from hand to mouth, portraits and small orders barely keeping the wolf from the door. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" I believe we went on living from hand to mouth, my father never getting so far ahead of the wolf as to be able to pause and choose his way. The Vicar's Daughter "Oh, my," she said, holding her hand to mouth. Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz Still the number of those who live from hand to mouth, in the indolent and useless possession of freedom, is very great. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 I've been living from hand to mouth lately by means of occasional contributions to a sporting weekly, and a little bit of business which your brother threw in my way. Birds of Prey He had given up his chambers in the Temple, as too expensive for a man living from hand to mouth. The Golden Calf For some unaccountable reason they prefer to remain in New York, living from hand to mouth, and doing nothing to improve themselves, mentally, worldly, or financially. The Secrets of the Great City They lived from hand to mouth, and from day to day, and this day had been a good one. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man This time in the shape of a hundred and three louis, a goodly sum when one has to live from hand to mouth. The Mountebank Then, suddenly, the King's son remembered, and knew who it was, and sprang to her and kissed her from hand to mouth; and the priest came, and they were married. Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland They were rash, too, living from hand to mouth, discontented, and violent, as ignorant poor people will be in evil times. Sermons on National Subjects There is a very large and increasing class of vagrants who live from hand to mouth, and who, beneath the dignity of the lowest grade of boarding houses, find a nightly abode in cheap lodgings. The Secrets of the Great City But there is a character stamped on every life, and however the man may have lived from hand to mouth without premeditation, the result has a character of its own, be it temple or pig-sty. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke This is absolutely necessary as we have no magazine of provisions and are only supplied from hand to mouth. Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched While Goldsmith was literally living from hand to mouth by the forced drudgery of the pen, his independence of spirit was subjected to a sore pecuniary trial. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography They must have lived from hand to mouth. Early European History Living from hand to mouth as he did, he worried but little as to how Cyril was getting on. When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire "Ah! the 'Germany,' above all things!" cried Hamilton, dropping a delicious morsel of sanglier in its way from hand to mouth, in his hurry to speak. Devereux — Complete "Ah! the 'Germany,' above all things!" cried Hamilton, dropping a delicious morsel of /sanglier/ in its way from hand to mouth, in his hurry to speak. Devereux — Volume 04 Yet, notwithstanding the fertility of the Shefelah, its rich fields and olive groves, its plentiful and well-watered pasture lands, the farmers in the entire section, had to live from hand to mouth. Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) We live from hand to mouth; my mother is not strong; I earn what I can; one of my sisters is obliged to work at Levanto. Alone In the hand to mouth struggle for existence, not even a supply of food would be found in a ransacked camp; no land seen tempting settlement by its luxuriant vegetation and produce. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Bredes, they kept alive, lived from hand to mouth, but without great fear. Growth of the Soil How is a patroness of Art going to patronize you, unless you're a poor and struggling young artist, living from hand to mouth by arduous pot-boiling? From a Bench in Our Square He, though neither extravagant nor profligate, was, like most literary men who are accustomed to live from hand to mouth, careless, self-indulgent, unmethodical. Two Years Ago, Volume I His intellectual existence, after he left the quiet of West Roxbury, was from hand to mouth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 Adventurer as he was, ingenious and unscrupulous, he lived from hand to mouth. The House of Whispers Gradually he drifted into literature, and lived from hand to mouth by doing hack work for the London booksellers. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World I have therefore written, as it were, from hand to mouth, more as one who keeps a vagabond diary than as one who consciously plans a work of art. The Lost Naval Papers "And you thought barristers always lived from hand to mouth, and made no allowance for my having got on in my profession." Peter's Mother It's a hard, hammering, brazen sort of place when you're living in it from hand to mouth. The Cinema Murder Ground down, living from hand to mouth, separated from their families in many cases--they had had a bitter lot. Beautiful Joe An Autobiography of a Dog We are living continually from hand to mouth. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine We live, as the saying is, "from hand to mouth." Peaceless Europe The Confederacy had all it could do to feed its existing armies where they were, and was living from hand to mouth. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 We were living "from hand to mouth," no additional transportation had reached us, and every wagon and pack-mule was doing its best. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 The business of France dwindled into a mere living from hand to mouth. Fiat Money Inflation in France Thus eight years passed, the friends living from hand to mouth, doing all sorts of things: sign-painting, advertisements, and the like; and Millet, in the midst of his poverty, got married. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Gen. Hawkins and his whole brigade were living from hand to mouth, one meal at a time. History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition She would not work so blindly, so aimlessly, so "from hand to mouth," as do some of our mothers. A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household Their history is a rule of thumb, hand to mouth, diary sort of arrangement, like a vast museum of genuine but unclassified and unticketed objects. Ancient China Simplified The married life referred to occasionally in cold tones by the Honourable Mrs. Harrington had been of that order which is curtly called “cat and dog,” and likewise “hand to mouth.” The Grey Lady They were merely acting from hand to mouth to avert the parliamentary censure with which they were threatened. Practical Argumentation It may be a primitive group living from hand to mouth by the chase, by fishing or by gathering such food as nature spontaneously produces. A Handbook of Ethical Theory Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth, without plan, and are ever at the end of their line, and, after each action, wait for an impulse from abroad. Representative Men Diderot lived from hand to mouth for a time, sleeping sometimes in a garret of his own, sometimes on the floor of a friend's room. The Eve of the French Revolution Oh, at such work as that a man cannot do more than live from hand to mouth. Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus Those who live on this higher plane have deeper sorrows, but also far richer joys, than those who exist from hand to mouth, as it were, in the immediate and material present. An Original Belle When a man has lived from hand to mouth for years, and suddenly finds himself with a hundred pounds in his pocket, the result is sometimes curious. The Masquerader You complain that we employers aren't thinking of you, but are you thinking of the millions of the unskilled who live from hand to mouth? Dr. Jonathan "Life is much more interesting when it is from hand to mouth," said Gerald, with a yawn. The Long Vacation She stood it for some months living from hand to mouth, she working her fingers to the bone for him, until she was afraid of her life and left him again. Felix O'Day No provisions were procurable, for the villages were in a state of semi-starvation, the inhabitants living from hand to mouth on what reluctant Fortune threw into their nets. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley What right can a poor devil like me have, who lives from hand to mouth, to ask such a girl as you to be his wife? He Knew He Was Right However, it was precisely this living from hand to mouth which exasperated Felicite. The Fortune of the Rougons "Fancy Shirley in this place, living from hand to mouth," went on the judge. The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life The glimpse which Felix had caught of these two poor, unappreciated old men, living contentedly from hand to mouth, gayly propping each other up when one or the other weakened, had strangely affected him. Felix O'Day Afterward, Bill and his family lived from hand to mouth. Half a Rogue You have no notion how I laughed at Mrs. Goldsworthy's "talking from hand to mouth." The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 I am the feeblest of managers; I live from hand to mouth; but I am not going to submerge you either. Watersprings Especially hard is it when a woman must live from hand to mouth, and so much illness means, almost literally, so much less food. Nerves and Common Sense What was the use of wealth if it did not exempt one from the petty laws binding on miserable hand to mouth toilers! Demos The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. An Essay on the Principle of Population His illness had naturally made a hole in this; and now the living from hand to mouth must begin anew. Australia Felix The Goths, settled on the lower Danube, had been living, as wild men and mercenaries live, recklessly from hand to mouth, drinking and gambling till their families were in want. Roman and the Teuton He had started in business as a house-agent, and the family of three lived from hand to mouth on the profits that escaped the publican. Jonah Except for a few moderately thriving tradesmen, the whole population seemed to live from hand to mouth. Peg O' My Heart Well, I understand," said Mr. Niclas, confusedly, "musicians are seldom rich, but live from hand to mouth, and must thank God if their clothes are good and clean. Frederick the Great and His Family Life for the next few days was indeed "hand to mouth." At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. After four years of living from hand to mouth, this will be like untold gold. Clever Woman of the Family Like her neighbours, who lived from hand to mouth, she was given to dreaming of imaginary riches falling on her from the clouds. Jonah "And where would I be gettin' the manner of a Lord, when me father died the poorest peasant in the village, an' me brought up from hand to mouth since I was a child?" Peg O' My Heart I shall have to live from hand to mouth by writing articles which I can no longer write with the agility of youth which is no more. Women in the Life of Balzac It was like something she had heard—in the interval between the verses—while the sounds echoed in the mind she remembered the cry, hand to mouth, of a London dustman. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 Ground down, living from hand to mouth, separated from their families in many cases they had had a bitter lot. Beautiful Joe Having lived from hand to mouth, and in many countries, since he left Westminster School, he had now practically no class feelings. The Patrician But the little model, who mentally lived very much from hand to mouth, and had only the philosophy of wants, acted differently. Fraternity A man on the edge of things; living from hand to mouth; his gifts all down at heel! Five Tales We live from hand to mouth, in a strange land. Saint's Progress When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman--just from hand to mouth. A Doll's House : a play "Hurrah!" shouted the men, easily satisfied; as working people are, who have been used all their days to live from hand to mouth, and to whom the present is all in all. John Halifax, Gentleman He is poor, ambitious, struggling along from hand to mouth. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) But in countries in which the great majority live from hand to mouth, and in which vast masses of wealth have been accumulated by a comparatively small number, the case is widely different. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 When I look back on it now, I seem to have been living like a beggar, from hand to mouth. Anarchism and Other Essays With them we lived from hand to mouth in a wild God-forsaken way for several years. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American "It's just hand to mouth all the time," he would grumble. A Poor Wise Man "No, monsieur, I have lived from hand to mouth, that I might scrape up this money; but I hope, in time, to repair the wrongs I have done to my neighbor." Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau But in the Western States the laborer does not live so completely from hand to mouth. North America — Volume 1 Costermongers, hawkers, and pedlars, a class of workers who live from hand to mouth more than those of any other class, form the highest percentage of those in the lunatic asylums. The People of the Abyss He can knock about, and live from hand to mouth. The Golden Fleece, a romance Seems as though they might lay up a little before they come here, and not live from hand to mouth so! New Chronicles of Rebecca |
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