Rates

Examples

• The next matter was the financing of the trip, about which Mr. Edison asked in a tentative way about the rates to the East. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It should cut down the rates for using wire and cable systems, and ultimately place the means of communicating directly with any one on land or sea within the reach of every man. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages, profit and rent, at the time and place in which they commonly prevail. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That rates of toll have been imposed on steam carriages which would prohibit them being used on several lines of roads, were such charges permitted to remain unaltered. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The book of rates is extremely comprehensive, and enumerates a great variety of articles, many of them little used, and, therefore, not well known. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I think the Church-rates guesses who I am, and I know the Water-works does, because I drew a tooth of his when I first came down here. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Let him name the ransom at which he rates our liberty, and it shall be paid, providing the exaction is suited to our means. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The importation of other sorts of grain was restrained at rates and by duties, in proportion to the value of the grain, almost equally high. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba,--I know nothing of ciphers or rates of usage, answered the Knight. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He was a grain buyer and the agent for several insurance companies and he also loaned money at high rates of interest. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The number of workers in the art, both men and women, has vastly increased instead of being diminished, while their wages have greatly advanced over the old rates. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The different rates of profit, therefore, in the different branches of trade, cannot arise from the different degrees of trust reposed in the traders. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The surface, however, was not at first sufficiently sensitive to admit of sharply defined pictures being secured at the necessarily high rates. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Edited by Alison