higher-paid

Updated: May 24, 2025

Kedzie longed to get at Ferriday and tell him what a sneak he was to lure her into such a web and tie her up with such cheap ropes. She would break her bonds and fling them in his face. She slid abruptly to the floor and began to go over the film pages again, comparing her portraits with the portraits of those higher-paid creatures.

Rupert Hughes - We Can't Have Everything

You guarantee directly to the cheap labor of these tropical regions, and indirectly, but none the less bindingly, to the cheap labor of the world, free admission of their products to this continent, in unrestricted competition with our own higher-paid labor.

Whitelaw Reid - Problems of Expansion: As Considered In Papers and Addresses

When the Leader was invited to send a representative on the excursion of press correspondents, which an enterprising immigration agency purposed conducting through the Canadian Northwest, Garth was chosen to go most unexpectedly to himself, and to the higher-paid men on the staff. This trip put an entirely new colour on Garth's existence.

Hulbert Footner - Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest