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The second Spires residence was clearly a period of honourable and not ungainful activity.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

The board was to advance the exportations of home manufactures and to repress the "ungainful importation of foreign commodities."

From British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675 by Andrews, Charles M.

He nowhere indicates that all gainful labour is to be abandoned, or that having gained enough for food and raiment we are to idle thereafter, or even give ourselves to some ungainful work.

From Our Lady Saint Mary by Barry, J. G. H.