It was beyond the power of Auckland, a comparatively poor man, burdened with a large family, to grant a dowry with her unless Pitt awarded to him a lucrative post and sinecures.
The borough-mongers lost only one half of theirlucrative patronage.
Preserving her incognito, when her education was finished she soon acquired a lucrative practice; and eventually her case caused the law against women to be revoked.
So lucrative did they find it that many of the monks devoted themselves entirely to it, to the utter neglect of their religious duties.
The Republic had given him this employ--a very lucrative one--and he was only sorry that it would expire in two years.
The effect of this arrangement would be to deprive Venice of a lucrative trade, and to place it in the emperor's dominions.
It was said that her father had been originally a missionary from Great Britain, but abandoned his profession for the more lucrative traffic in slaves, to which he owed an abundant fortune.
Rhapsody is no longer a politician, or office-holder, but engaged in lucrative pursuits that yield comfort and position in society.
The reputation thus attained, was such that he found himself in a fair way to make a lucrative and pleasant livelihood.
Colonel Somebody held a lucrative office under government, in the city of Washington.
The camphor industry is a lucrative one, and happy is the man who possesses a few trees.
Ships from Holland were permitted to visit them occasionally, and they carried on a very lucrative trade between the two countries.
A few years prior to this some Portuguese traders had made their way to Japan, had been warmly received, and had begun a lucrative trade.
Its manufacture and sale is one of the most lucrative businesses in the empire.
As luxury, indeed, increased, the villa was adapted to the accommodation of an opulent Roman citizen, and the country was resorted to rather for recreation than for the purpose of lucrative toil.
He had several times been obliged to throw up lucrativejobs because employers persisted in treating him as an equal.
It was because of this, Dangerfield had discharged him from a lucrative position.
I heard you had gone down to the North of England to fulfil a lucrative employment.
Mr. Augustus Tomlinson, one bright morning, disappeared, leaving word with his numerous friends that he was going to accept a lucrative situation in the North of England.
During this period Edwin Gurwood rose to a responsible and sufficiently lucrative situation in the Clearing-House.
Could you not procure for my friend, Joseph Tipps, a more lucrative appointment?
Hobbema was not the only painter of his time who had to eke out a bare subsistence by employment more lucrative than the production of masterpieces.
Mieris, however, would not leave Leyden; nor did his large and lucrative practice induce any carelessness or neglect in his work.
The offer was rejected, but in May 1723 Pulteney stooped to accept the lucrative but insignificant post of cofferer of the household.
Bathurst was made a knight of the Garter in 1817, and held several lucrative sinecures.
In view of Handel's strictly honourable character it is difficult to believe that he was guilty of neglect, and we may naturally suppose him to have resented the loss of a lucrative appointment.
These, having no lucrative objects in prospect, are taken very much out of the lower orders of the people.
During his residence of many years in that State he was employed most of the time in the customs service with chances of preferment to higher and more lucrative posts, which he never sought nor cared for.
These women, who conducted a lucrativebusiness on Broadway, opposite Bleeker Hall, were also staunch Abolitionists.
He has not only established a lucrative private business, but has acted as attorney for a life insurance company and other corporations.
He located in Washington, the capital of the nation, where today he enjoys a large and lucrative practice.
That a man should take fees for a case in which he cannot appear, or retain them when he is debarred by lucrative promotion from appearing for his client, seems to be consistent with the morality of the modern bar.
Disgusted with the clamorous and intriguing bustle of Naples, he retired, at the early age of 34, to his natal village of Macchia, throwing over one or two offers of lucrative worldly appointments.
Together with the Sardinians, these Calabrians are the hardiest of native races, and this is what makes them prefer the strenuous butlucrative life in North American mines to the easier career in Argentina, which Neapolitans favour.
It is far mair lucrative to cheat than to steal; and the first is in the way o' business--as you were remarking.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lucrative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
