Cheapness

Examples

• Agriculture is the proper business of all new colonies; a business which the cheapness of land renders more advantageous than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The cheapness of calcium carbide has made it possible for the isolated farmhouse to discard oil lamps and to have a private gas system. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This, however, is the effect, not of the real cheapness of silver, but of the real dearness of corn. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But in England water gas could not compete with coal gas in cheapness. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The cheapness of gold and silver renders those metals rather less fit for the purposes of money than they were before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Secondly, the wages of labour vary with the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense, of learning the business. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The public was astonished at the cheapness and good quality of the work, but it was its immense sale which rendered it profitable; for some years it amounted to 180,000 copies weekly. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But this cheapness was not the effect of the high value of silver, but of the low value of those commodities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The old-time rag-paper had disappeared for newspaper work, being superseded by wood-pulp paper, the cheapness of which added to the desire to produce presses of greater speed and efficiency. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The cheapness and plenty of good land encourage improvement, and enable the proprietor to pay those high wages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Its cheapness recommends it despite the fact that it is not of equal strength, and also that its fibers are shorter, being from two to four feet in length. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The cheapness of their goods would secure to our own workmen, not only the possession of a home, but a very great command of the foreign market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Now the strength and cheapness of harnesses enable the poor man to equip his horse with a working suit impossible to have been produced a hundred years ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The cheapness of their goods would increase the demand for them, and consequently for the labour of those who produced them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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