| 单词 | hand-to-mouth |
| 例句 | Now you have to understand that twenty pennies might be a good bit of money for some little ragamuffin troupe living hand-to-mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Some of us aren’t living hand-to-mouth. Some of us have risen in the world.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Their violent, alcoholic and uncommunicative father is a fisherman working in a brutal, hand-to-mouth industry. First fiction – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:03Z Black Mountain was launched in the Depression, and for twenty-four years it led a hand-to-mouth existence in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, outside Asheville, North Carolina. Learn By Painting 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Most of the small theaters are nonprofit organizations that need donations to augment ticket sales in order to sustain what's typically a hand-to-mouth existence. L.A. County's small-theater community speaks out on proposed wage hike 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Soon, I was living hand-to-mouth in the bush, so profoundly depressed that to get out of bed without a drink was impossible. The hour you are most alone: how I got trapped by poverty and depression 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Even so, life as a professional string quartet has been a hand-to-mouth existence. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z To find myself at 80, living in a duplex in Los Angeles without enough money for a phone, working hand-to-mouth, job to job, the way I started. Q&A: Richard Dreyfuss, actor – ‘I am the greatest kisser in the world’ 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z It is an existence — frequently a hand-to-mouth one — that excludes all others. The Graduates 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Given their typical hand-to-mouth existence, professional poets remain a rare breed here. Seamus Heaney Work Wins Contest Honoring Ireland’s Poets and Its Past 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z "We used to indulge our kids back home, but here, of course, we are living hand-to-mouth. Free meals help, the locals bring us clothes - we arrived with just one bag," his wife said. Floods of Ukrainian refugees seek new life in Russia 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z It become a hand-to-mouth existence, with her hand to his mouth.” Lemon White Pizza, Smothered Pork Chops, Pea Guacamole: 10 Takes on What to Cook This Summer 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Still, making documentaries often left the family living, if not hand-to-mouth, close to it. D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’s Counterculture Archive 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z She, her mother and her little brother are living hand-to-mouth in a Rust Belt town where she knows few people and likes fewer. ‘I Am Not Okay With This’ Review: You’d Like Her When She’s Angry 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “There’s a good thing about living hand-to-mouth with no access to any of the glamour.” Winning a BAFTA? Just One of Joanna Scanlan’s Career Surprises. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z I remember a girl saying to me, “You’re 28. You’re driving around in a beaten-up old car, living hand-to-mouth. What are you doing with your life?” The Buggles’ Song Launched MTV. After 45 Years, They’re Going on Tour. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Some of the interview’s most fascinating moments are Basquiat’s memories of his hand-to-mouth existence after running away from home as a teenager. | 'Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child': Tamra Davis?s Portrait of Elusive Artist at Film Forum 2010-07-20T22:17:00Z It’s still pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence for him. In This ‘Full Monty,’ the Clothes Stay On 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z At the same time, it was a bit of an eye opener for me to realize how hand-to-mouth their existence really was. New York Fashion Week: Fashion Week, Ten Years Later: A Bond Forged in Tragedy 2011-09-07T01:27:28Z Restless handheld cinematography and brisk, sometimes almost breathless editing, give a sense of the exhausting rhythm of Nico’s hand-to-mouth existence and the superhuman juggling act required to muster the charisma that used to come naturally. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Thoreau hoped to jolt his readers into the realization that they were living a hand-to-mouth existence, driven to this not by necessity but by its evil twin, luxury. Lessons from the first ‘tiny house’ evangelist, Henry David Thoreau 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z They happen upon an ambush, and Robin is tasked by a dying man to return a sword to Nottingham, a once-proud village now forced into a hand-to-mouth existence under oppressive taxation. Film: Ridley Scott?s New Spectacle Film: ?Robin Hood? 2010-05-07T23:29:00Z He spent two three-month stints on the islands, taking a big sack of rice and living “hand-to-mouth” off local fish. 'We were trying not to get hit by their tails' – how I filmed the Faroe whale hunt 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The idea for “The Florida Project” came about five years ago, inspired by news stories about families — the “hidden homeless” — living hand-to-mouth in cheap motels after losing jobs and homes in the Great Recession. In Disney’s Seedy Shadow, the Magic and Hardship of ‘The Florida Project’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z I was living hand-to-mouth, waitressing, typing papers for New School students and trying to get published in New York City in the late 1980s when Mama called. Despite my mama’s secret shame, she was the smartest person I knew 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Annie’s addiction propelled her from the top of the working class, wife of the head coachman on a country estate, into a hand-to-mouth existence hawking crocheted antimacassars and flowers. Review | Jack the Ripper’s identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Members of the military and civil servants, many of whom live hand-to-mouth, will lose their paychecks. James Comer brings the MAGA circus to town: What the House GOP witness list says about impeachment 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Luke says: "We need the money from the summer to get us through the winter. It's a hand-to-mouth kind of business in this area." Corran ferry: The five minute crossing that opens up the world 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Logging may pay better than other options, but Dilaram and his family live hand-to-mouth, like many others in the communities where he works. A Rare Glimpse into Afghanistan’s Spectacular, Vanishing Forests 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z But he acknowledged that Sri Lanka’s foreign reserves remained “negligible” and that the country was still hand-to-mouth. Sri Lanka Is Calm Again. That Doesn’t Mean Things Are Any Better. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z She says her family is now living hand-to-mouth. Fuel protests in more than 90 countries, BBC analysis 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Those who were already living hand-to-mouth existences have found the struggle to feed their families even more challenging. Afghanistan: The Taliban sniper now working behind a desk 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z "They are living hand-to-mouth, but when the hand gets to the mouth, it is empty," says Ms Kerr, advice services manager at Blackpool Citizens Advice. Cost of living: Are you missing out on unclaimed universal credit? 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Cold and flu viruses are often transmitted by hand-to-mouth contact, so washing hands and controlling coughs and sneezes can help prevent the spread of viruses. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z This is among the poorest places in the country, and people survive hand-to-mouth with the little money they earn collecting firewood and harvesting pine nuts each fall. ‘We Have Nothing:’ Afghan Quake Survivors Despair Over Recovery 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z He told Uxbridge magistrates he had been living "hand-to-mouth" and his financial position had not changed. Ex-MP Charlie Elphicke looks at building job to pay sex trial costs 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The country is essentially living hand-to-mouth, and increasingly dependent on foreign assistance, battering Sri Lanka’s sense of its self as a rising economic star. Sri Lanka Economy Has ‘Hit Rock Bottom,’ Putting Pressure on President 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z "Demand has been slow as consumers only buy hand-to-mouth due to extremely high prices and negative parity at the destination," said Rasheed JanMohammed, chief executive at Westbury Group, referring to demand in Pakistan. Demand destruction to cool world vegoil prices in 2nd half - analysts 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z “I care about how they see their representation,” says Baker, who earned special praise for his vibrant portraits of trans characters in “Tangerine” and hand-to-mouth families in “The Florida Project.” Sean Baker reembraces the indie film with porn-star-centered 'Red Rocket' 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z “Are we seeing any improvements? The short answer is no. It’s still very hand-to-mouth,” said Ray Scott, chief executive of Lear Corp., an auto parts supplier. U.S. will miss electric-vehicle targets without big investments in semiconductor manufacturing, commerce secretary warns 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Many people who were already living hand-to-mouth have been pushed over the edge. Afghan Economy Nears Collapse as Pressure Builds to Ease U.S. Sanctions 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Abramovic was living in Europe at the time, hand-to-mouth, sleeping in her car, traveling from one country to the next to do the performance pieces that would eventually make her reputation. Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z "The people here are the engine of Australia; they need to be working, many live hand-to-mouth," said Jody Reeves, another Lindsay resident, who describes herself as a swing voter. Locked-up and fed-up: Australian voters put prime minister on notice 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z At the time, Hubbard and his first wife, May, were living hand-to-mouth in a cramped apartment as he struggled to get his new business up and running. ‘Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard’ explores the random résumé of a creative, eccentric, 20th-century pioneer and LSD proponent 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z Wealthy residents, golf courses and shopping malls are also now a feature of the country's most populous township, Soweto, near Johannesburg, as well as a large poorer population living hand-to-mouth in often cramped conditions. Scale of cash economy in South African townships stuns FirstRand 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z The crisis has alarmed public health officials along with the millions of unvaccinated, especially those who toil in the informal, off-the-books economy, live hand-to-mouth and pay cash in health emergencies. In poorest countries, surge combines with vaccine shortage 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z They spoke about the hand-to-mouth realities of existence in Buduburam, the camp on the edge of the Ghanaian capital, Accra, where they found themselves. Alphonso Davies Wants to Share His Story 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z “It’s been too hand-to-mouth in general, and then it’s been made even worse by the storm,” de Blasio said at a Thursday news conference. Winter storms delay distribution of 6 million coronavirus vaccine doses 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z "Bands like mine will be fine, but the next generation of bands will be hit - bands living hand-to-mouth like we did for the first 10 years." Blur drummer David Rowntree: 'Music streaming hits songwriters and artists' 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z In Afghanistan, a government lockdown early on in the pandemic left many families who were already living hand-to-mouth more desperate. The coronavirus intensified a hunger crisis last year, but 2021 could be worse 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Rather, the president focused on the pandemic’s economic impact, warning the upshot of bringing the economy to a screeching halt would be worse for Brazilians than the virus itself, as many live hand-to-mouth. Brazil general named health minister after months as interim 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Despite his notoriety, Cage was still living hand-to-mouth and, to supplement his income, he made several hundred dollars supplying mushrooms to several renowned New York restaurants, including the Four Seasons, which specialised in seasonal fare. A mushroom-related brush with mortality: how John Cage fell for fungi 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z "But he threw it in the water because he was fed up with how we are treated. We are living a hand-to-mouth existence and never given a chance." The deadly hunt for jade in Myanmar's mines 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z In a country where almost everyone identifies with one religion or another, and where the majority of people live hand-to-mouth, the president honed in on faith and income to promote his strategy. 'My family is split over coronavirus' 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Quarantine and isolation are also challenging situations because some folks who are losing income are already living day-to-day, hand-to-mouth. Grass-roots groups take on the hard work of correcting coronavirus disparities 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Among the millions of residents in the capital who live hand-to-mouth, relying on daily work to survive, many fear their families will be unable to cope. Manila lockdown diary: 'I went into labour but had to walk to the clinic to give birth' 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z The bleak outlook for Orellana and her companions extends deep into Central America and much of Latin America, where the pandemic threatens to worsen chronic poverty among the millions of people who live hand-to-mouth. As hunger spreads under lockdown, Guatemalans and Salvadorans raise white flag 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The Beatles were living a hand-to-mouth life at the time, playing several sets a night, drinking hard and sharing dingy rooms in an unsavoury neighbourhood. Astrid Kirchherr: a stylish outsider who saw the beauty of the Beatles 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z “It’s all hand-to-mouth, there’s no secure supply chain.” U.K. Coronavirus Testers Pay Price for a Day of Triumph 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z But the immediate needs faced by C.H.C.s are often so great that even long-established organizations exist on a hand-to-mouth basis, plowing whatever funding they receive immediately back into payroll and patient care. A Shadow Medical Safety Net, Stretched to the Limit 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Locked down for two months in crumbling apartments in a mob-infiltrated town north of Naples, their hand-to-mouth existence has grown even more precarious with no work, no food and no hope. Misery of Italy’s migrants grows not from virus but lockdown 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z “What we really need to get to is from the current rather hand-to-mouth approach to where sustainable supplies consistently and reliably arrive,” he said. Boris Johnson and his ministers accused of bungling coronavirus response, unleashing disaster 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Hopson said the supply of gowns - imported from China - was “hand-to-mouth”. Coronavirus UK live: Praise for NHS nurses who saved Boris Johnson as row over PPE continues 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Even before this crisis hit, millions were living hand-to-mouth. Why coronavirus could be catastrophic for Venezuela 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z The drastic lockdown brought the nation’s economy to a standstill and left millions of workers in the informal sector, who live hand-to-mouth in the best of times, without jobs or food. Can India Contain the Pandemic? 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z When people here live hand-to-mouth, how do you tell them to shut up shop? Favela 'presidents' fight Bolsonaro's virus claims 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Lopez Obrador argues he must keep up people’s spirits and that to suppress activity would hit poorer Mexicans who tend to live hand-to-mouth, his core constituency. Deny, delay, dodge: LatAm mavericks caught cold by coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z In Washington State, where at least 378 people have tested positive and 31 have died, public health officials spoke of having to ration the tests and living hand-to-mouth with testing supplies. Sick People Across the U.S. Say They Are Being Denied the Coronavirus Test 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z They live hand-to-mouth, one step away from becoming homeless. For Seoul’s Poor, Class Strife in ‘Parasite’ Is Daily Reality 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z After a few hand-to-mouth years, he made a go of this business, thanks in part to his representation of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle. Review | America needed their journalism; they needed each other 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z And China also provides a road map for how one of Asia’s poorest nations might lift its citizens out of hand-to-mouth existences. Myanmar Unrolls a Welcome Mat for China, but Not All the Way 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But we’ve been living hand-to-mouth all these years, he told her. Left Behind by Migrant Husbands, Women Break the Rules and Go to Work 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z For those of us living hand-to-mouth — which is to say, most of us — it takes years of nothing going wrong to earn your way out of poverty. Perspective | Air travel shows what happens when we give companies ruinous power over us 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It is caused in part by high prices: living hand-to-mouth families like Melissa’s buy goods from small local stores on informal credit, adding up to 20% to the cost of basic goods. Why is inequality booming in Chile? Blame the Chicago Boys | Richard Davies 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Experts previously believed that people who lived during the Paleolithic era were "hunter gatherers who lived hand-to-mouth," according to the statement. 400,000 years ago, ancient humans ate bone marrow using the bones as 'cans' 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Despite their success in Germany, the band members are still living a hand-to-mouth existence, doing odd jobs and selling merchandise online when not rehearsing or playing live. The band born on a rubbish dump 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z The trial is a far-off concern, though, in the rural villages where people live hand-to-mouth, and it is the government’s neglect that stings most. $1 Million Bribe Offered by El Chapo to President? Hondurans Are More Resigned Than Shocked 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Not just the desolation, the hand-to-mouth uncertainty of the young artist, but also the developing engagement with the self. Review: Ed Smith was an unsung hero of L.A.'s poetry world. The punk poet is finally getting his due 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z “There were a few people who did very well. But most people were kind of a hand-to-mouth existence,” said Draper, who serves on the Millard County Commission. Los Angeles is finally ditching coal — and replacing it with another polluting fuel 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Almost 25 years after the end of the war, Bosnian citizens are trapped in a hand-to-mouth existence, with some 23% estimated to be living at or below the absolute poverty line. Bosnia is close to the edge. We need Europe’s help | Aleksandar Brezar 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The shutdown revealed unflattering truths about Americans’ finances: Even neighbors and friends with steady paychecks and the markers of comfortable lives were suddenly surviving hand-to-mouth, teetering on the edge of despair. How the Shutdown Reordered American Life 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Most of its 16 million people live hand-to-mouth, or survive on remittances from the extensive diaspora. Zimbabwe warns brutal crackdown is 'foretaste of things to come' 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Most of its 16-million population live hand-to-mouth, or survive on remittances from the extensive diaspora. Zimbabwean activists on run as protests crackdown raises spectre of Mugabe era 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The military seemed like the only way out of a hand-to-mouth existence, so Harris enlisted in the branch that seemed least dangerous. Real Change: How Seattle’s street newspaper plans to survive in the digital age 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z While defectors with private means have been smuggled out of the country into the EU, many former members live hand-to-mouth in Tirana. Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr Smith said Russell had lived hand-to-mouth picking fruit and vegetables for cash in the first five years after 2008 but had been living in St Day working in events since then. 'Beach-find' cocaine dealer jailed 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s ultimately a strangely optimistic and uplifting, yet fully credible, snapshot of hand-to-mouth, working-class life. Review: French drama ‘Milla’ patiently spins a tale of life on the fringes 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z “In my opinion you can’t spend so much on boulevards and parks when there are people in marginal neighborhoods living hand-to-mouth,” said Anahi Tamayo, a waitress at a private snack bar. Young party official faces test as Cuba’s next president 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The rationale: to reduce the risk of pathogens being transmitted through hand-to-mouth contact. Special Report: At a hotel near you - Cadavers in the banquet room 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “I thought hustling in the US would be way better than going through this hand-to-mouth thing in Ghana.” The true story of the fake US embassy in Ghana 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z That means life in an underground metal band is frequently a hardscrabble, hand-to-mouth existence. Pornogrind and flying intestines: my journey into the labyrinth of underground metal 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The culture was partly a holdover from Miramax’s start-up years when it operated hand-to-mouth. Working for Harvey Weinstein was a coveted career stepping stone that came at a price 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z And between my contemplation of shows like Breaking Bad or Master of None, I’m also cramming episodes of Gossip Girl and Riverdale like a woman shoveling potato chips, hand-to-mouth, down her gullet. What would it take to get you to sign up for a new streaming service? 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The rationale: to reduce the risk of pathogens being transmitted through hand-to-mouth contact. Special Report: At a hotel near you - Cadavers in the banquet room 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “It’s existed hand-to-mouth, patchwork to patchwork, to a great degree,” he said. Amtrak at a Junction: Invest in Improvements, or Risk Worsening Problems 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Many Kenyan citizens live hand-to-mouth each month covering basic expenses such as school costs, transportation, and food, and any sudden family illness can be a crippling event. As striking Kenyan doctors dig in, patients are forgotten and a baby dies 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Through onscreen text of their mournful verse, and quietly stark glimpses into their migratory, hand-to-mouth lives, we see how their art is a coping mechanism for loss, poverty, and feelings of invisibility. Documentary 'Iron Moon' illuminated by poetry of Chinese working class 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He was living hand-to-mouth in a series of short-term rentals, and eventually moved into his car in a Bronx parking lot. For 22 Unclaimed Bodies in New York, a Grim Path From Death to Burial 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “I was living on a shoestring — a very hand-to-mouth existence at that time — in Boston and for a long time after that too,” Morrison told The Times in a 2007 interview. An Appreciation: Lewis Merenstein, producer of Van Morrison masterpiece 'Astral Weeks' 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z "Any growth in manufacturing is of the hand-to-mouth variety rather than a vibrant expansion," said Michael Montgomery, U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts. U.S. factory activity slips; construction spending hits one-year low 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Kayaking is still allowed, though you’ll want to avoid hand-to-mouth water contact. Essential California: L.A.'s favorite hiking trail will reopen 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Harare runs a hand-to-mouth budget, spending 82 percent of its revenue on wages. From tweets to streets, Zimbabwe social media anger erupts into anti-Mugabe protests 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Lisa MacKenzie from Howard League Scotland, a penal reform charity, said: "Even some of the best known projects in Scotland don't have financial certainty year to year. It is a hand-to-mouth existence. " Overcrowding warning over Scottish female prison plans - BBC News 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Some districts are property tax poor and live hand-to-mouth on state checks. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Some hedge funds are trying to do this stuff and live hand-to-mouth on a quarter-to-quarter basis, and that’s really difficult to do.” John Maynard Keynes: Great Economist, Terrible Currency Trader 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z And when your customers are living hand-to-mouth, just collecting payment is a daily frustration. Electrifying India, With the Sun and Small Loans 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Take a look at the data: A study released last year by the Brookings Institution, on whose board I serve, found that up to 40% of American households live hand-to-mouth. The I-Word Our Debates Are Missing 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The constant hand-to-mouth activity creates an internal traffic jam: Digestion slows down, and things don’t move.” Dealing With Food Hangovers: Cures for the Aftermath of Overindulging 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z I am in my early 50s, living hand-to-mouth with nothing set aside for retirement. A hard fall for an Olympian: Should we help or is she skating by? 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z With its famously tiny arms, T. rex wasn’t capable of eating hand-to-mouth. What Was on the T. Rex Menu? Sometimes Each Other 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z With fewer bellies to feed, the government turned a hand-to-mouth society into the world’s second largest economy. Here's How China's One-Child Policy Started in the First Place 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z She worked all her life — as a waitress, school bus driver, commercial fisherwoman, bank teller, property manager — but “it was a struggle, hand-to-mouth all the time,” she said. Income Inequality Grows With Age and Shapes Later Years 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z For people living hand-to-mouth in filthy nearby camps, it’s a cherished way to stay connected to their families and the outside world. Amid Europe’s migrant tensions, kindness arises, too 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z They have lived hand-to-mouth on their low pay and occasional tips, they said, and have little if any retirement savings. Paris Looks to Depose Keepers of a Different Throne 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The villagers live hand-to-mouth, making a small amount from their farms and small shops. Migrant crisis: The Egyptian village that keeps sending its sons away - BBC News 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z These fringe alternatives to the mainstream West End typically lead hand-to-mouth existences characterized by battles to hold on to makeshift premises. Low-budget theater caught in drama on changes to London skyline 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Make Room! – adapted into the film Soylent Green – the global population is sardined in overcrowded cities, living hand-to-mouth on scarce resources. Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science fiction to make sense of it | Claire L Evans 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z As a result, the stone-age settlers of ancient Britain were thought of as simple folk, living a brutal hand-to-mouth existence. Early Britons: Have we underestimated our ancestors? - BBC News 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z He said he had a hand-to-mouth childhood that left him financially scarred. Modern Families and Modern Money Worries 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z That experience was key to Southwest’s survival of its hand-to-mouth start-up days. Airlines' 40% Failure Rate: Nobody Is In Charge Of Making Sure You Get There On Time 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z “Although it seems trivial, this hand-to-mouth behavior is a major route of exposure for very young children,” Sears says. Obesogens: the Environmental Link to Obesity 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Stapleton conducted a study in which she determined the hand-to-mouth route is the biggest exposure pathway for toddlers, and by extension, perhaps for all of us. New England editorial roundup 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z But the business barely provided a living — “We were living hand-to-mouth,” her daughter said — so Ms. Valmy moved to Greece and ultimately to the United States looking for better opportunities. Christine Valmy, Builder of U.S. Skin-Care Business, Dies at 88 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Salmonella illness is spread by eating contaminated foods, drinking contaminated water or having hand-to-mouth contact with an infected person or animal. State looking at salmonella cases in Texas Panhandle 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Some people in Ecuador are farmers, growing potatoes, for example, living a hand-to-mouth life. UMR students provide medical services in Nicaragua 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Securing and maintaining reliable funding is the key to moving from fringe radical group to recognised terrorist organisation - from a hand-to-mouth existence to a more planned and organised model. How extremist groups raise money 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z As “Foxcatcher” opens, Mark has gone from being an Olympic-gold-medal-winning wrestler to speaking at high school assemblies at $20 a pop, living hand-to-mouth and working out with his far more stable brother. ‘Foxcatcher’ movie review: Ensemble cast shines in mesmerizing true story Inclement weather forced packers to spend more for cattle after they tried to by them hand-to-mouth in recent weeks to realign their deeply red margins, said Robb. Weather, tight supplies drive U.S. cattle prices to new high 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z But, she added, “when you look at the average dust intake for adults and then infants, this is more of a concern for infants. They are on the floor, and there’s more hand-to-mouth contact.” Suspected Hormone-Changing Chemical Found in Air Near Factories 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z But Waldrum’s Hail Mary use of social media served to illustrate the hand-to-mouth existence of many players and teams lower down the women’s football food chain, even in an oil-rich nation such as Trinidad. Rivals pitch in after Trinidad and Tobago women's soccer team arrives in US with just $500 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The fairies, it would seem, were living hand-to-mouth. Leave Your Wings at the Door 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The furniture thing has always been a bit hand-to-mouth. Roy McMakin: His Art Is Another’s Furniture 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “Instead of just living hand-to-mouth in a fun way, I started thinking about the future and saving money accordingly,” he said. Time Marches On, Even at Fortress Astoria 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z But such hand-to-mouth financing makes planning difficult and encourages city, state and local governments to put off repairs for as long as possible. Bridging the gap 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Without high levels of productivity, workers live hand-to-mouth, meaning that savings and economic growth do not occur. The Wealth Of Nations Part 2 -- The History Of Productivity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The Nomads subsist on a shoestring budget of donations, favors, and hand-to-mouth fund-raising. The raw joy of North Philly’s young ruggers 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Those who stay in Libya exist in a twilight world of cramped safe-houses, living hand-to-mouth, always in fear of arrest. No wonder they still try 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z I spent an afternoon with Stanley, to get an idea of what his hand-to-mouth life in Belfast is like. Life as a destitute asylum seeker 2014-02-14T12:36:19Z In the summer of 2013, before the army ousted former President Mohamed Mursi, the funding crunch triggered a stream of smaller grain shipments, clogging up ports, as traders purchased on a hand-to-mouth basis. Investment needed to ease Mideast port congestion: Cargill 2014-02-04T17:10:33Z So, you just keep investing it, while the bottom 50% are living, in their own way, hand-to-mouth. Secular stagnation: A deficit of demand 2013-12-12T12:20:35Z Because they fear it could be taken, the children spend their money quickly, ensuring a hand-to-mouth existence. In India, teaching and empowering street kids to save money 2013-10-04T14:18:33Z Importers are now gradually shifting from their hand-to-mouth buying strategies to more forward-buying as prices for corn, soy and wheat have all fallen from near-record highs to multi-year lows as the U.S. autumn harvest neared. After years of crop crises, U.S. harvest beckons new era of plenty...almost 2013-09-30T04:16:01Z “They still get the hand-to-mouth motion and they still get the nicotine, which is the addictive component.” E-cigarettes raise new questions about smoking 2013-09-09T21:24:35Z "These are the street vendors, motorcycle drivers, and taxi drivers living hand-to-mouth whose commercial activities put them in constant contact with police at checkpoints, random stops, and street raids." Liberian police act like 'predators' 2013-08-22T12:11:23Z Not that even a hand-to-mouth raw existence is possible in 1, 5 or 12 rupees. India Ink: How Not to Talk About Poverty in India 2013-08-01T07:35:27Z Keeping Greece in a hand-to-mouth existence, meanwhile, could threaten its bid to emerge from economic depression, with nearly two out of three young Greeks without work. Euro zone grants multi-billion euro lifeline for Greece 2013-07-08T20:27:40Z The authors are a world apart from the "frugal" bloggers making personal choices to downshift; austerity bloggers are people with little option but to live hand-to-mouth. The rise and rise of austerity blogs 2013-07-07T19:00:02Z Carmen had been cleaning the office at the time - it was an egalitarian hand-to-mouth operation and cleaning was part of the job. The long march of everywoman 2013-07-05T16:19:06Z Militants still stage attacks and aid workers say many Somalis still live a hand-to-mouth existence. Quarter of Somalis still rely on aid despite weakening of Shabaab 2013-05-02T16:08:36Z This hand-to-mouth existence continued for eight years until eventually Mr Turay got his first big break. One man's tale of war and recovery 2013-04-23T00:10:41Z What started as hand-to-mouth survival, 20 years ago, is now big business. Ukraine's coal-mining racket 2013-04-23T23:51:14Z This hand-to-mouth existence continued for eight years until eventually Mr Guray got his first big break. One man's tale of war and recovery 2013-04-23T00:10:41Z He lived hand-to-mouth in Alphabet City, while I went on autopilot…with each pay raise making it harder to leave. Are You Only a Wannabe? 15 Ways to Tell 2013-02-25T13:34:49Z “While Hong Kong is a generally affluent society, there are still many people who live a hand-to-mouth existence.” he said. Hong Kong Leader Pledges to Ease Housing Shortage 2013-01-16T12:51:09Z Both the payroll tax increase and the change in unemployment benefits would hit hand-to-mouth consumers hard. Economic Costs of Budget Impasse Are Inevitable, Experts Say 2012-12-31T02:29:23Z Vast mounds of rubbish fester on the city's streets where the truly destitute sift for scraps of aluminium or plastic to sell in a hand-to-mouth struggle to survive. Aleppo's winter of discontent 2012-12-12T10:48:23Z The news reinforced a growing impression in financial and political circles of a country surviving hand-to-mouth on a series of short-term ... Greece Staves Off Default With Debt Sale 2012-08-15T00:57:23Z Con Edison, it should be noted, is not a hand-to-mouth utility. Gotham: Cuomo Stays Out of Fray Between Con Edison and Union 2012-07-24T02:00:25Z But would it not be better to discontinue this hand-to-mouth system of government and have a regular succession of kings? The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z During all this hand-to-mouth existence I was calling on theatrical managers. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z But though the rejection of the Bill promised him a second short session, and many who sat for close boroughs chuckled privately over the respite, he was ill-content with a hand-to-mouth life. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z There is a moral hookworm throughout the country, and life slumps down to a hand-to-mouth drag from one day to the next. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z It is a hand-to-mouth existence for many, with little hope that a new president would change their lives. South Carolina Voters Weigh Priorities 2012-01-11T15:56:11Z These sons of the gay science were notoriously careless of their means of livelihood, and lived a hand-to-mouth existence. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Every conceivable form of hand-to-mouth unauthorised currency was resorted to, in order to relieve the needs of the situation caused by the want of silver coins. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z For their superhuman efforts, they lived hand-to-mouth and month-to-month, just few steps above welfare. How To Live A Mind-blowingly Amazing Life 2011-12-22T20:47:16Z It was the inheritance of the hand-to-mouth system in which everything had been commenced in early days. My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills 2011-10-26T02:00:28.847Z It’s all very well to peck along, hand-to-mouth fashion. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z Their hand-to-mouth mode of living is the standard by which they measure everything. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z It is in the nature of States founded on mercantilism to content themselves with a hand-to-mouth policy, without general views or idealism, satisfied with immediate gains and unable to prepare against a distant future. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z By gathering these as we went along, a scant hand-to-mouth subsistence daily was obtained. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Like other aristocratical creatures, he was unequal to the hand-to-mouth existence of the African-born animal, who, by habit and instinct, could shift for himself. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z The early chapters of the book take us back to Sinclair's Stratford in the early 1970s, when he was doing hand-to-mouth day labour, working alongside Nigerian entrepreneurs and Irish brickies. Iain Sinclair's struggles with the city of London 2011-07-15T09:05:01Z Thus, here as elsewhere, we see a vacillating hand-to-mouth policy, at the mercy of a passion for power or for sensual gratification. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z We were intensely happy in the present, yet "next year" enshrined everything we really wanted; we looked upon our present, happy as it was, as something of a hand-to-mouth existence. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Young, handsome, ardent and fond of pleasure, he began that career as a hand-to-mouth playwright around which so much legend has gathered—and gathers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z This acuteness had possibly been derived from her hand-to-mouth existence in the old days; in her time of affluence, the habit of storing up and taking mental notes of everything, had not deserted her. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z “They were living hand-to-mouth and they expected some checks in the mail.” 40 Years on, Detective Sees Light Shed on Killing 2011-02-05T01:25:22Z He is painfully shy, is the dentist; For he lives such a hand-to-mouth life. Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z It will have to be hand-to-mouth till snow flies, then I’ll slip you in stores enough to fill that wangan to the roof. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z For farmers, a hand-to-mouth existence is made worse by routine land seizures and orders to work without pay for the military. Aung San Suu Kyi: Burma's First Lady of Freedom 2010-12-29T08:30:00Z Their dialectic had corrupted theology; their hand-to-mouth utilitarianism had played havoc with traditional church-institutions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z You see, it is very difficult to get the hand-to-mouth class interested in anything except those two organs. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z Up until a few years ago, Burma's military government, cut off from trade with the West, led a "hand-to-mouth existence," says Sean Turnell an economics professor at Macquarie University in Australia. Burma and the Bomb: Is the Junta Trying to Join the Nuclear Club? 2010-07-09T21:45:00Z Living a largely hand-to-mouth existence here on his part-time teacher’s salary, he sent one post after another into the Internet wilderness. Blog Prophet of Euro Zone Doom 2010-06-09T01:33:00Z "At the end of the day, it was kind of the ultimate hand-to-mouth and you were kind of dependent on the goodness of your creditors," ... Former Bear Stearns Executives Defend Bank 2010-05-05T15:13:00Z The sheer size of the state’s unpaid bills underscore an unsettling truth: New York is living hand-to-mouth, the state’s solvency at risk day to day. Paterson Again Delays Aid to New York Schools 2010-03-31T01:50:00Z They are all hand-to-mouth working men: they live by the job when they can get any. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z With a son back in Ecuador, he says he will probably return home to Guayaquil rather than scrape a hand-to-mouth living from employers who dodge social security costs by giving him work under the table. The mounting cost of Spain's new illegal underclass 2010-02-23T00:08:00Z Most of them now live hand-to-mouth in Kabul, exiled from their home villages. 2010-01-29T23:11:00Z Still, as you may see, this was only hand-to-mouth reading. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Some of His people have died spiritually poor; some are living to-day in spiritual penury, a hand-to-mouth existence, with such "untrackable riches" lying "at call," at deposit in their name. The Spirit-Filled Life It is a hand-to-mouth business, and what with cabs and gloves, there is precious little to be made out of these suburban engagements. The Daughters of a Genius For instance, prospecting is precarious work, and, I’m told, often very hand-to-mouth. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion Thriftless people set up stakes, bushes, and such hand-to-mouth contrivances, and perhaps throw an old apron or a fragment of a table-cloth over them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 In it Dickens dwells upon a kind of life which seems greatly to have attracted him—the career of the traveling showman, with its oddities, its careless Bohemianism, and its happy-go-lucky, hand-to-mouth existence. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 He has a hand-to-mouth, nomad existence, ending in the inevitable frozen misery of the workhouse. The Hills and the Vale There is, however, something discreditable in the conduct of Government, and which shows the compromising, half-cunning, hand-to-mouth way in which they are compelled to scramble on. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III It is mere hand-to-mouth information, and is written, so to speak, with the left hand. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Owing to the hand-to-mouth buying methods of the French, Paris is never more than three days ahead of famine. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone "Oh who can ever force you?" he asked with his hand-to-mouth way, at all times, of speaking for her encouragement. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II He looked at Mr. Gubb, who was eating a piece of apple pie hand-to-mouth fashion, and studied him in a new light. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective The sacred work is vitally concerned to defeat this hand-to-mouth philosophy. Another Sheaf Why do so many allow themselves to be dragged along, living from hand-to-mouth, in fear of the knock of the bill collector at the door? Creating Capital Money-making as an aim in business They gave themselves up to intemperance and kindred vices, and their descendants still lead a hand-to-mouth existence in the Tsardom which their privileges alone could not better. England and Germany There followed three similar years of a hand-to-mouth existence, the privations of which he endured in silence. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West After a hand-to-mouth existence, but still a free one, in England, he had allowed himself to be nabbed by the police, like the veriest simpleton! A Nest of Spies All the little companies that he investigated were having a hand-to-mouth existence, or manufacturing a product which was not satisfactory to him. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel But the general temper which they showed, the contempt for slovenly, haphazard, hand-to-mouth modes of legislation, the love of vigorous administration on broad, intelligible principles, entirely expressed his own feeling. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice It meant that their hard hand-to-mouth struggle must go on. The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life For these reasons mining operations cannot be organized on a large scale, but are ordinarily hand-to-mouth operations near the surface. The Economic Aspect of Geology This serves, however, to show the perilous condition the town is in, living as it is in a hand-to-mouth fashion. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin We are getting used to this hand-to-mouth legislation. The Cult of Incompetence Hunting peoples, because they live a hand-to-mouth life, have either a feast or a famine. The Later Cave-Men Our English Government lives on a hand-to-mouth policy. The Life of Gordon, Volume II Disgusted with their desultory, hand-to-mouth existence, they yearned after respectability and a prime-ministership. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 All the accumulated hand-to-mouth wisdom of generations of peasantry seemed to lurk behind the old woman's quick eyes; to be defying one. A Poor Man's House It is poor business to be making a hand-to-mouth fight against a state of actual acidity unless the cost of more liberal treatment is prohibitive. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement What do you think people mean when they say that some one is living a “hand-to-mouth” life? The Later Cave-Men I daresay this programme could be improved, but it has the advantage of being definite, and a definite policy, however imperfect, is better than an unstable or hand-to-mouth policy. The Life of Gordon, Volume II Not once in many years had he owned so much at one time, since he always drew small sums on account of his pictures and kept himself going hand-to-mouth fashion. A Son of the Immortals Ches's mother had died when he was a baby, and he had come up somehow, in a hand-to-mouth fashion, with all the cloud of heredity hanging over him. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 I have heard it more than once remarked that the hand-to-mouth existence is the most stimulating in the world. A Young Mutineer Years of health and strength spent in hand-to-mouth indulgence inevitably bear fruit in a comfortless old age. Practical Ethics Our English Government lives on a hand-to-mouth policy. The Life of Gordon, Volume II The venture pays handsomely in fortunate seasons, but it is not the line of planting to be taken up by hand-to-mouth colonists who must seek immediate returns, nor as a sole occupation. The Philippine Islands All this is the English popular evil which goes along with the English popular virtues of geniality, of homeliness, tolerance and strong humour, hope and an enormous appetite for a hand-to-mouth happiness. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens That was his life and he was happy in it, a hand-to-mouth sort of existence in which he was satisfied. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles Without property life cannot rise above the hand-to-mouth existence of the savage. Practical Ethics After that he supported himself in a hand-to-mouth fashion by writing for and editing newspapers and periodicals, living successively in Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Its own view of the art of life is that it is before everything else a matter of rhythm and harmony and it cannot help discerning in "pragmatism" something piece-meal, pell-mell and "hand-to-mouth." The Complex Vision Just as no provident man in private life settles his establishment on the basis of one year or two years only, so Mr. Gladstone abandoned hand-to-mouth, and took long views. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 But we humans do not have to be content with this hand-to-mouth way of thinking and feeling. By the Christmas Fire It's all very well to peck along, hand-to-mouth fashion. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story You cannot safely live "hand-to-mouth" in politics any more than in any other department of human life. London Lectures of 1907 It was certainly a hand-to-mouth existence so far as the daily manna was concerned. Quiet Talks on Power There is a wasting sense of inadequacy in this 'hand-to-mouth' theory of living, which compels most of those who follow it to tread softly and speak moderately. A Short History of Greek Philosophy And even when he went into the remote, interior province of Szechuan, where he lived a precarious, hand-to-mouth existence for several years, he was also known as a beach-comber. Civilization Tales of the Orient For we are living hand-to-mouth now in every sense. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I How was he to extricate himself?—or rather the question that would naturally occur to Goldsmith was how was he to continue that hand-to-mouth existence that had its compensations along with its troubles? Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series One reason for this is the hand-to-mouth manner in which the bulk of the people live, with no notion of thrift. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond In spite of the enthusiasm of the conductor and the skill and talent of the orchestra, the society led a hand-to-mouth existence. Musical Memories But to the then existing population—living at best in a light-hearted and hopeful, hand-to-mouth contentment—there was a terrible awakening. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent As the strike dragged on she lived herself as she had lived in the starving hand-to-mouth days of her bitter poverty, to help find bread for the hungry families she knew. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel It was a happy-go-lucky, hand-to-mouth sort of existence, involving a good deal of hardship and humiliation, but having its frolics and gaieties notwithstanding. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series I hate the brilliant, disorderly hand-to-mouth sort of Bohemia, Kenny, in which you seem to thrive. Kenny The England that has been the paradise of the wealthy, of the pink-coated, of the doubly second-horsed, must become that of the oppressed, the hunted, the hand-to-mouth liver. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920 Utility has been a "hand-to-mouth" moral basis, and certain rough rules of conduct have grown up by experience and the necessities of life, without any definite investigation into, or codifying of, experience. The Basis of Morality It represents nothing, thus far, except what it has always represented, a hand-to-mouth policy and a financial deficit. Success A Novel A real control over expenditure must be re-established and made more effective than it was even before the necessities of war in our unprepared condition made the present hand-to-mouth procedure to some extent excusable. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War For two years he had drifted about the city, living now here and now there, a real hand-to-mouth existence, sinking a little lower each day. Vandover and the Brute Lyons was among those upon whom the harrow of this fall in prices and subsequent hand-to-mouth struggle with the banks pressed with unpleasant rigor. Unleavened Bread In February, 1837, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society came to the rescue of the Liberator from its financial embarrassments and hand-to-mouth existence by assuming the responsibility of its publication. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist I’m only a penniless, backboneless, hand-to-mouth wretch, living on the work of laborious insects.” Children of the Mist But perhaps there is no class of people with whom the temptation—common enough in every class—of hand-to-mouth work is more fatal than with men of letters. The English Novel But this nomadic, hand-to-mouth life could not go on indefinitely. Love Romances of the Aristocracy She spoke, too, of the ill-omened and secret wedding after the usual legal formalities, and of their hand-to-mouth existence, till the day an uncle on dying left them some ten thousand francs a year. A Love Episode After a year this hand-to-mouth existence began to pall. The Reign of Andrew Jackson We are content to live a hand-to-mouth mental existence on a haphazard diet of newspapers and the lightest novels. The "Goldfish" "His failure don't amount to very much," Henry remarked; "he has always done business in a sort of hand-to-mouth way." A Young Girl's Wooing It must be borne in mind that parish financiering was largely of the hand-to-mouth variety. The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects If ever an institution passed its first year in a hand-to-mouth existence, this one has. Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India The fact was, farming, as a rule, was conducted on the hand-to-mouth principle, and the least stress or strain caused an outcry. Hodge and His Masters We turn from these to the workless tenth and to the other tenth who eke out a scanty hand-to-mouth existence on the borders of that great and terrible wilderness. Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" Tidies on the chairs were unknown, and there was only tapestry enough to get along with in a sort of hand-to-mouth way. Comic History of England For this reason the stock in process must not necessarily be considered insufficient if it appears to be on the hand-to-mouth plan. Industrial Progress and Human Economics What she wanted was not a hand-to-mouth existence of precarious intrigue: to one with her gifts the privileges of life should come openly. The Custom of the Country The result is that, in order to keep up a decent appearance, the former habitually live hand-to-mouth to a greater extent than the latter. Theory of the Leisure Class The wretched hand-to-mouth existence many of them have to live disheartens them, and makes life with them either a feast or a famine, and drives those who have brains enough to crime. In Darkest England and the Way Out It was a lazy, hand-to-mouth existence, and Thomas said he must have got to like that easy way of living and the relaxing Southern atmosphere. The Song of the Lark It showed an eagerness for adventure, a readiness for the hand-to-mouth, which the care she took of her home and her love of good housewifery made not a little remarkable. Moon and Sixpence The week before he had spent the last of the four hundred dollars in the bar of a sailor's lodging-house near the water front, and since that time had lived a veritable hand-to-mouth existence. McTeague He went on into all the arguments for it; the awkwardnesses of Charlotte's new situation, her lack of means for even a hand-to-mouth daily existence, and so on. The Cavalier We know the inadequacy of such hand-to-mouth criticism as that of a monthly reviewer must be upon works demanding so minute an examination as a dictionary deserves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 If a man inherit a house, he is not likely to build another,— nor if he inherit nothing but a place in an inevitable line of lifelong hand-to-mouth toil. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 The Communist contemplates a hand-to-mouth dispensation of all things: the Socialist locks all things up, wages in private coffers, capital in government stores. Moral Philosophy This man died before Sandy was more than halfway through his time, and the youth went through a period of hardship and hand-to-mouth living which ended at last in the usual tramp to London. The History of David Grieve "She recounts unto God, unto all the human kind, the degrading miseries of a hand-to-mouth existence, of the soul that pierces to the depths of evil." The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) He would not emigrate to the provinces, as Englishmen have done to Canada and Australia, but instead went to the cities, where he led a hand-to-mouth existence in a type of tenement house. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization This old-fashioned hand-to-mouth system of theirs invariably breaks down here and there. Old Calabria The last, constituting fifty per cent out of the eighty-eight, or half the entire nation, had too little wealth to be estimated at all, apparently living a hand-to-mouth existence. Equality For the poor ryot it is a miserable hand-to-mouth existence when crops are poor. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter But it must also be remembered that the industrial conditions under which these people live, necessitate a hand-to-mouth existence, and themselves furnish an education in improvidence. Problems of Poverty He doesn’t see, sir, that they want to be raised bodily out of this miserable hand-to-mouth state, to be brought nearer up to him, and set on a footing where they can shift for themselves. Yeast: a Problem What will be the consequence of this hand-to-mouth policy? Old Calabria Indeed, with Rudolph Musgrave living had always been a vaguely dissatisfactory business, a hand-to-mouth proceeding which he had scrambled through, as he saw now, without any worthy aim or even any intelligible purpose. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations He lived a needy hand-to-mouth existence, and his poor wife had a hard time of it. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales Napoleon was born in obscurity, the son of a hand-to-mouth scrivener in the backward island of Corsica. How to Speak and Write Correctly The winter dragged slowly along while we led a hand-to-mouth existence. The Romance and Tragedy Both Barnes and the wide-eyed Countess became infused with the spirit of jubilation that filled the souls of these time-worn, hand-to-mouth stragglers. Green Fancy It scares them out of everything but hand-to-mouth politics. The Imperialist It was but a hand-to-mouth existence which he lived, paying his way as his money came to him, and sharing the proceeds of his parish with the poor. He Knew He Was Right He stayed, however, in Ballarat, and took up stockbroking—living a kind of hand-to-mouth existence, bragging of his former splendour, and swearing at his wife for what he was pleased to call—her cruelty. Madame Midas Oh yes, ma'am; it is hand-to-mouth with them all the time. The Good Time Coming But such an anchor to windward, for two most hand-to-mouth spendthrifts! Letters of Franklin K. Lane They had only been eight in all—a hand-to-mouth number for a deep wet hole. Australia Felix She loved him intransitively, to the utter extinction of the little light of modesty which her hand-to-mouth existence had left burning. Who Cares? a story of adolescence And many pioneers in whom the roving instinct was strong went on from year to year in this hand-to-mouth fashion. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond The whole financial arrangements are carried on by a system of inflation and a hand-to-mouth extravagance and blindness as to future contingencies. Evolution and Ethics She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion. Eugene Pickering How simple were the artifices of these ingenious impostors, their resources how scanty; how hand-to-mouth and improvised was their whole procedure! Books and Bookmen To him, who for years had lived a hand-to-mouth boarding house existence, her shy wholesome laughter made that room sing of home, one which her personality fitted to a dot. The Vision Splendid Billy had failed to get regular employment; so she saw much of him, and they lived a prosperous and happy hand-to-mouth existence in the tiny cottage they rented. The Valley of the Moon “O” says she “I thought you had no feeling for such a hard hand-to-mouth life as mine, and were rolling in affluence.” Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy In short, the old Muscovite Tsars practised a hand-to-mouth policy, destroying whatever caused temporary inconvenience, and giving little heed to what did not force itself upon their attention. Russia He had a system of the universe, but he had no system of sponging—that was quite hand-to-mouth. The Coxon Fund They are members of the surplus labor army, and must be content with a hand-to-mouth existence. War of the Classes Mr. Moreen would never consent—it would be so very hand-to-mouth,” Pemberton’s hostess beautifully explained to him. The Pupil |
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