1 He had forgotten that a blacklist did not exist.
2 If she had no money, she was a proletarian, and sold herself for an existence.
3 Life was a struggle for existence, and the strong overcame the weak, and in turn were overcome by the strongest.
4 The house was one of a whole row that was built by a company which existed to make money by swindling poor people.
5 This was in truth not living; it was scarcely even existing, and they felt that it was too little for the price they paid.
6 It was as if his family had been wiped out of existence; as if they were proving to be dream people, who never had existed at all.
7 It was as if his family had been wiped out of existence; as if they were proving to be dream people, who never had existed at all.
8 She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.
9 The next time she would know her place, as the forelady expressed it; and so Marija went out, and the family faced the problem of an existence again.
10 And then the editor wanted to know upon what ground Dr. Schliemann asserted that it might be possible for a society to exist upon an hour's toil by each of its members.
11 The workers were dependent upon a job to exist from day to day, and so they bid against each other, and no man could get more than the lowest man would consent to work for.
12 And now in the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form of a democracy.
13 Her soul had been baked hard in the fire of adversity, and there was no altering it now; life to her was the hunt for daily bread, and ideas existed for her only as they bore upon that.
14 They had learned that they would have to pay a rent of nine dollars a month for a flat, and there was no way of doing better, unless the family of twelve was to exist in one or two rooms, as at present.
15 It had forced the price of cattle so low as to destroy the stock-raising industry, an occupation upon which whole states existed; it had ruined thousands of butchers who had refused to handle its products.