Costing

Examples

• Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• 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.
• Platinum even in those days was very expensive, costing several dollars an ounce, and I owned only three small strips. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I can't have a carriage without its costing ever so much. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A roller three inches long, costing forty cents, will answer for all small leaves and branches of plants. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The lamps at that time were costing about $1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We were using coal costing $12 a ton, and were paid for our light in currency worth fifty cents on the dollar. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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