Thus, when times grew hard under the stress of the Civil War, and the works of art representing many hours of Bertrand Ballard's keenest effort lay in his studio unpurchased, and even carefully created portraits, ordered and painstakingly painted, were left on his hands, unclaimed and unpaid for, he quietly turned his attention to his garden, saying, "People can live without pictures, but they must eat."
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
There was relief in this, too, for my expenses at the hotel in Eggedesminde and on the Hans Egede were unpaid.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
But the wages system gives to surplus labour that is really unpaid the false appearance of being paid.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae