| 1. | I am told that pork-packing is the most lucrative profession in America, after politics.. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | One of our most lucrative means of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security is unimpeachable. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | For some reason unknown, Chaucer held this lucrative offic. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 4. | Bumble was cunning enough and he at once saw that an opportunity was opened, for the lucrative disposal of some secret in the possession of his better half. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | It was one of those snug, lucrative berths of which there are so many more nowadays than there used to be, with incomes ranging from one thousand to fifty thousand roubles. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | he was a captain in the Guards, wore medals, and held some special lucrative posts in Petersburg. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | It would be long indeed ere you would find so lucrative a post as that you have now the good fortune to fill. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | Without money, and naturally with expensive tastes, he applied to his Uncle Burleigh for a lucrative position. - from English Literature by William J. Long |