Cheaper

Examples

• If for a generation or so machinery has had to wait its turn in the mine, it is simply because for a time men were cheaper than machinery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He infers from this, that their dress must, upon the whole, have been cheaper than ours; but the conclusion does not seem to follow. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Grocery goods, for example, are generally much cheaper; bread and butchers' meat frequently as cheap. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By this plan the original plate remains untouched, and the printing from the stone is much cheaper than from the copper. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was found cheaper and superior to either coal or charcoal, and produced a quicker fire and a greater heat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It shows that as inventions multiply, so does the demand for their better and cheaper products increase. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Another and cheaper product experimented with is the pith of the cornstalk, which is much lighter than the cocoanut fiber and serves the same purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high-grade ore. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But the public would be a gainer, the work of all artificers coming in this way much cheaper to market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Practically all silver, gold, and nickel plating is done in this way; machine, bicycle, and motor attachments are not solid, but are of cheaper material electrically plated with nickel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The chalk telephone was finally discarded in favor of the Bell receiver--the latter being more simple and cheaper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When one nigger's dead, I buy another; and I find it comes cheaper and easier, every way. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But man's propensity for wearing clothes has led to the invention of every variety of tools for making them faster, cheaper, and better. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is only cotton, I alleged, hurriedly; and cheaper, and washes better than any other colour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I have been turning Selina Goby over in my mind, I said, and I think, my lady, it will be cheaper to marry her than to keep her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Large quantities of the cheaper class of watches are now made by machinery in the United States, Switzerland, France, Germany and England. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Stockings, in many parts of Scotland, are knit much cheaper than they can anywhere be wrought upon the loom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A service of plate becomes really cheaper, and every thing else remains precisely of the same real value as before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Well, I shan't take either of my horses, but shall ride the General's grey charger: it's cheaper, and I told him mine was lame. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In the dry-salt curing cellars are kept enormous stocks of the cheaper kinds of meat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For many such purposes gangs of captives were cheaper and far more controllable than levies of the king's own people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those metals ought naturally, therefore, to be somewhat cheaper in Spain and Portugal than in any other part of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The importer explained that in China human labor was cheaper than steam power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Wood is not only lighter, but easily procured and worked, and cheaper, in many small and private ship-yards where an iron frame and parts would be difficult and expensive to produce. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He said if Brooke wanted a pelting, he could get it cheaper than by going to the hustings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They tend directly, it may be supposed, to render the goods cheaper in the home market than they otherwise would be. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Use up, and buy more, 's my way;-makes you less trouble, and I'm quite sure it comes cheaper in the end; and Simon sipped his glass. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But, it seems, we farmers must take so much less that the poor may have it so much cheaper. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• All sort of garden stuff, too, has become cheaper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It answers as well as oil paint for brick or stone, and is much cheaper. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.

Editor: Margaret