Expenditure

Examples

• After despatching this second bolt with a still greater expenditure of force, Bella laughed and cried still more. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It's no use plying him with wide words like Expenditure: I wouldn't talk of phlebotomy, I would empty a pot of leeches upon him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Inexperienced in government, she plunged into all manner of useless expenditure, and swamped her treasury almost in a day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now,' said Mr. Pickwick, gasping no less from excitement than from the expenditure of so much energy, 'come on--both of you--both of you! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• War expenditure increased everywhere and called for more and more taxation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In a thousand ways he cut down the expenditure, in ways so fine as to be hardly noticeable to the men. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And so on to the culminating moral, that the highest pay, the utmost importance, the freest expenditure, must be allowed to military gentlemen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The damage, however, beyond what could be repaired by a small expenditure of money, was slight, except to the Essex. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My Lady signifies, without profuse expenditure of words, that she is as wearily well as she can hope to be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This expenditure bankrupted them, as the machines were not at once remunerative, and parliament refused to grant them pecuniary assistance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Both methods of course are still followed, but they demand too great an expenditure of force and time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I would keep exact accounts of all the expenditure you sanctioned, Mr Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Having shot this bolt out with a great expenditure of force, Bella hysterically laughed and cried together. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We calculated our weekly expenditure to the last farthing, and we never touched our little fund except in Laura's interests and for Laura's sake. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Is it not very unwise in us to go on spending the little money we've got when I can keep down expenditures by an honest occupation? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Edited by Julia