| 1. | You have bartered it for a pittance of the public gold. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 2. | She procured plain work she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 3. | As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I gave, so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |