board-wages

He then offered the same civility to his fellow-servant, but she was resolute in her refusal to quit the carriage, in which she now remained in solitary state, threatening all concerned or unconcerned with actions for wages and board-wages, damages and expenses, and numbering on her fingers the gowns and other habiliments, from which she seemed in the act of being separated for ever.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

I do not like to give servants board-wages, though they are cheaper than household bills: but I know they save out of board-wages, and so beat me.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Belgium and up the Rhine until they meet with a boarding-house where they can live upon less board-wages than her ladyship pays her footmen.

The Book of Snobs 2006

We keep a plain table; but all the Warringtons since the Conqueror have been remarkable for their love of mutton; and our meal may look a little scanty, and is, for we are plain people, and I am obliged to keep my rascals of servants on board-wages.

The Virginians 2006

She will stay in the city and keep the others straight, in something she calls board-wages.

The Rose-Garden Husband Margaret Widdemer 1931

A trio of young footmen (it appeared) had arrived in Kirris-vean to spend a holiday on board-wages -- their several employers having gone northward for the grouse, to incommodious shooting-boxes where a few servants sufficed.

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Chamberlayne (Magnae Britanniae Notitia, 171O, p. 536) says that his wages were 11 pounds, 8 shillings and a penny-ha'penny, and board-wages 138 pounds, 11 shillings and tenpence-ha'penny, making 150 pounds in all.

The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

An establishment was-also made of six hundred persons to be my domestics, who had board-wages allowed for their maintenance, and tents built for them very conveniently on each side of my door.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

Luke had intended to pay Dot and Dash board-wages until he was free to marry Jona, and then to take them into his service again.

If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson Barry Pain 1896

` ` If ye dinna think me fit, '' replied Andrew, in a huff, ` ` to speak like ither folk, gie me my wages and my board-wages, and

Rob Roy 1887