"handsome living" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It usually means a comfortable lifestyle with a good income. For example: She was earning a handsome living as an attorney, so she moved to a luxurious apartment in a waterfront neighborhood.
At the same time, consultants have been earning a handsome living advising retailers struggling to compete with Blue Nile — teaching them to "romance the stone," as one consultant, Shane Decker, put it, using industry-speak for stressing the whole diamond-buying experience over merely the price.
It can be a handsome living.
The fashion designer Oscar de la Renta's vast and handsome living room, for example, is divided into a dining area, a living area and a library by low bookcases set perpendicular to the walls.
Once the smuggling, from which Russian soldiers and a few thousand Ossetians make a handsome living, is brought under control, it should be possible to bring the restive province to heel albeit with a generous dose of autonomy.
Perhaps for the time being they can make a handsome living from all those management fees though that cannot go on forever: eventually, they will have to earn some returns.
He was earning a handsome living.
He's healthy and drop-dead handsome, lives alone in a house with a pool, and has worked his way through a series of gorgeous women.
You are good and kind and handsome, but living with you is like living with a chunk of air".
Because these handsome people, living on the verge of extinction, have no professional masks to retreat behind, they're the most vivid, complicated, and compelling subjects in the show.
They share the same space on stage but we soon realize the man (a handsome Jason Tam) lives below the woman (Lauren Molina).
Mr. Wrong comes along in the person of David (Hugh Panaro of "Side Show," among other Broadway musicals), a handsome, charming singer living in a nearby apartment and spied by David from his fire escape.
