I myself, having settled up all my losings at roulette, was a gainer of fifty sovereigns or so. |
On the contrary, I shall be a gainer by conferring an obligation in another quarter, not a pecuniary obligation of course. |
The magnet also is the gainer by the reaction of the body which it magnetises. |
However, she had given him her massive shoulders, so that he was in some sense a gainer by her after all. |
The only gainer was the Premier League, which did very nicely from the auctions. BSkyB looks no less powerful than before. |
If Japan joins whole-heartedly in the consortium, she may be the greatest gainer. |