| 1. | Added to which of course would be the pecuniary emolument by no means to be sneezed at, going hand in hand with his tuition fees. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 2. | Holding the office directly from the crown, I believe, all the royal emoluments incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | The emoluments of offices, therefore, can, in most cases, very well bear to be taxed. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 4. | In the different parliaments of France, the fees of court called epices and vacations constitute the far greater part of the emoluments of the judges. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 5. | These different emoluments amount to a good deal more than what is necessary for paying the salaries of officers, and defraying the expense of management. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 6. | This necessity is greatest with those to whom the emoluments of their profession are the only source from which they expect their fortune, or even their ordinary revenue and subsistence. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 7. | In some universities, the salary makes but a part, and frequently but a small part, of the emoluments of the teacher, of which the greater part arises from the honoraries or fees of his pupils. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 8. | The recompence of ingenious artists, and of men of liberal professions, I have endeavoured to show in the first book, necessarily keeps a certain proportion to the emoluments of inferior trades. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 9. | The inferior office of justice of peace, though attended with a good deal of trouble, and in most cases with no emoluments at all, is an object of ambition to the greater part of our country gentlemen. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 10. | The emoluments of offices are not, like those of trades and professions, regulated by the free competition of the market, and do not, therefore, always bear a just proportion to what the nature of the employment requires. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |