Expensive

Examples

• She had not yet had any anxiety about ways and means, although her domestic life had been expensive as well as eventful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was a long way off then, and the journey was expensive. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article, sir; and all the iron handles come, by canal, from Birmingham. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Generally speaking, meats are the most expensive foods we can purchase, and hence should be bought seldom and in small quantities. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There is a surprisingly large amount of expensive machinery in the hair plant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The strongest washing powder is soda, and this cheap form is as good as any of the more expensive preparations sold under fancy names. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A musket is a more expensive machine than a javelin or a bow and arrows; a cannon or a mortar, than a balista or a catapulta. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it cost them two and thirty pounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Their clothing, therefore, had commonly been much more expensive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These great cable constructions, expensive as they were, were found more economical than horse power. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This was very tedious and expensive work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Like our own war between the States, the Franco-Prussian war was an expensive one; but it was worth to France all it cost her people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Furnishing was necessarily expensive; but then it had to be done only once. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There is the width of the track, and it was only after a long and expensive contest that countries and corporations settled upon a uniform gauge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is safe to say that electricity would never have been used on a large scale if some less expensive and more convenient source than zinc had not been found. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If every record cylinder had to be made by the separate act of a performer such records would be very expensive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It's inconvenient--and it comes expensive. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She has lots of expensive knowledge, sir, political and otherwise. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It had once been hung with a showy and expensive paper, which now hung mouldering, torn and discolored, from the damp walls. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I thought the most expensive hobby in the world was standing for Parliament, said Mrs. Cadwallader. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Those of the master shoemaker are a little, though but a very little, more expensive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This machine infringed the partners’ patents, and caused them an almost endless series of expensive lawsuits. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• After that the other mines of Great Britain discarded the old expensive Newcomen engine, and sent in orders for Watt’s. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• With Johnston and him combined, a long, tedious, and expensive campaign, consuming most of the summer, might become necessary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They would have a front pew in the most expensive church in New York, and his name would figure handsomely in the list of parish charities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

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