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Four wageless months passed before Victurine found consulting work and settled on entering a Ph.D. program.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took hold vigorously, appointed a strong Cabinet, named a new army chief, produced pay for troops and other government employees who had gone wageless for a month.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so she worketh willingly with her hands; for "common household service" is "The wageless work of Paradise."

From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Soulsby, Lucy H. M.

Months of wageless and thankless service had dimmed the admiral's splendour.

From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.

And when she returned "home" at night from her wageless day of toil, she slept as she never had slept before.

From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr