He shook Anna and Jamie in their bed and asked in a loud voice: "What's all this palaver about an' oul throllop what niver earned salt t' 'is pirtas?"
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
You haven't really earned a cent of it.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
"You are quite right, sir," broke in Kate,-"I have earned nothing.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever