Prices

Examples

• Mr. Bucket prices that decoration in his mind and thinks it as likely as not that Volumnia is writing poetry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At this juncture a large part of the correspondence referred very naturally to electric lighting, embodying requests for all kinds of information, catalogues, prices, terms, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Meyers won on nearly every race but disliked to give tips because it brought down the prices. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The prices allowed by the board are very small, Mr. Bumble. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• How this came about may be easily seen without much arithmetic or knowledge of prices. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We together fixed the prices to be paid for the negro labor, whether rendered to the government or to individuals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Men made sly and crude schemes to corner it, to hoard it, to send up prices by releasing hoarded metals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By this national devotion to a single trade and its sub-division of labour, the successful production of complicated watches became great and their prices comparatively low. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In their observations upon the prices of corn, three different circumstances seem frequently to have misled them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Of those substances, straw has been most successfully applied, and straw paper--excellent to write upon, though not bright in colour--is now made at very low prices. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In the Appendix to the life of Prince Henry, Doctor Birch has given us an account of the prices of butcher's meat as commonly paid by that prince. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These prices are all above the London price; and wages are said to be as high in the other colonies as in New York. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On Egdon, coldest and meanest kisses were at famine prices, and where was a mouth matching hers to be found? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It must, however, have had some effect upon the prices of many of those years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Anything more Jewish than it--its contents and their prices--cannot be conceived. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• These were sold at first at very low prices, but were sold and resold for higher prices until they went up to many thousands of dollars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Their color includes the blue, and they command the highest prices of any diamonds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The consequent rise of all money prices, though it does not make those who receive them really richer, does not make them really poorer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Not knowing the different prices, nor the names of the different sorts of bread, I told him to give me threepenny worth of any sort. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The prices of malt and oats seem here to lie higher than their ordinary proportion to the price of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I read the leading articles, Joe, and the foreign intelligence, and I look over the market prices. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Large quantities of shoes were made at reduced prices, but complaints were made as to the nails penetrating into the shoe and hurting the feet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In a barber's window I saw tails of hair with the prices marked, and one black tail, not so thick as mine, was forty dollars. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Copies of this brochure are as scarce to-day as First Folio Shakespeares, and command prices equal to those of other American first editions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Improved factory facilities were introduced; new tools were made, and various types of machines were designed so that phonographs can now be bought at prices ranging from $10 to $200. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He sold the King a copy for seven hundred and fifty crowns, and private citizens copies at smaller prices. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The following will make a splendid article, and you know what you are getting without paying high prices for weak extracts put up in deceptive little panel bottles. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Thus, in 1270, Fleetwood gives us two prices of the quarter of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This beautiful and valuable process of transferring photographs in plain or colored work has been taught at high prices under various high-sounding names, such as Roman art, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I have added, therefore, from the accounts of Eton college, the prices of 1598, 1599, 1600, and 1601. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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