"Per annum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... languages, living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, singlestick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... Journal published in Mississippi. Devoted to the general cause of education. Keeps in close touch with educational matters in MISSISSIPPI. Publishes STATE BOARD QUESTIONS and educational news from everywhere. A splendid ADVERTISING MEDIUM. Subscription Fifty Cents per Annum. Advertising rate card sent on application...... ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 23, June 9, 1898 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
... dollars a month,—cartage both ways paid by the hirer,—it may be inferred that this business, when conducted on a large scale, and with the requisite vigilance, is not unprofitable. In fact, the income of a piano-letting business has approached eighty thousand dollars per annum, of which one third was profit. It has, however, its risks and drawbacks. From June to September, the owner of the instruments must find storage for the greater part of his stock, and must do without most of his monthly returns. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. • Various
... means improperly (for it was a legal requirement, though often evaded, that four months' residence per annum should be observed), persisted; and Scott, after a pleasing but impracticable dream of taking up his summer residence in the Tower of Harden itself, which was offered to him, took a lease of Ashestiel, a pleasant country house,—'a decent farmhouse,' he calls it, in his usual ...
— Sir Walter Scott - Famous Scots Series • George Saintsbury
... of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum which his father allowed him from the profits of "Dr. Hoff's Catarrh-Killer," proved sadly insufficient to his needs. He mentioned this fact to his father, so Average Jones' information ran, early in April, and suggested an increase, only to be ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
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