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Sentences starting with cost

Cost of living was down in King Charles's time, and wages were down accordingly. [11]
Cost something to put 'em in. [9]
Cost point was passed. [5]
Cost of first number (20,000 copies) $2,000. [5]
Cost what it might, she must not shed another tear. [10]
Cost what it might, I would mount that rostrum and-- Click! [5]

Sentences ending with cost

In fact, it would ere long force reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost. [7]
It was a world from which I was determined to escape at any cost. [9]
Most of 'em was scared plum' crazy, and they was fer gittin 'out 'n Kaintuckee at any cost. [9]
When the bill was passed, Hollowell did give a dinner on his own invitation, a dinner that was talked of for its refinement as well as its cost. [4]
Yet he, Berthold Vorchtel, was of the opinion that its fall must be prevented at any cost. [10]
They had agreed to walk back the ten miles to Coniston, to save the money that dinner at the hotel would cost. [9]
Items multiplied as to the cost. [4]
I was about to say that, however it may be with sunshine, one is always grateful for his wood-fire, because he does not maintain it without some cost. [4]
I was told to keep the peace at any cost. [9]
She looks like this cloth, and since yesterday has refused to take the milk we daily procure for her at a heavy cost. [10]

Short sentences using cost

It cost him twenty-six dollars. [5]
And things cost so much. [4]
Salaries cost pretty lively. [5]
What can it cost you? [10]
But the cost? [11]

Sentences containing cost two or more times

In this case there was no injury, for you had already cost Lacasse--how much had you cost him, Dauphin? [11]
They cost like sin, too; but lord bless me, I go in for having the best of a thing, even if it does cost a little more--it's the best economy, in the long run. [5]
It cost fifteen dollars; and the clothes--what they cost would keep a family half a year. [11]
The accident which cost Lord Douglas his life (see Chapter xii) also cost the lives of three other men. [5]
Then charge upon charge ensued, and each charge, if it cost them much, cost the besieged more, by reason of their fewer numbers. [11]
I was looking at a magnificent marble staircase in the King's palace, the other day, which, it was said, cost five million francs, and I suppose it did cost half a million, may be. [5]
In the North a suit of overalls cost three dollars--a day's wages; in the South it cost seventy-five --which was two days' wages. [5]

More example sentences with the word cost in them

Seegars, I bet you--and cost five cents apiece, solid cash. [5]
Pleasant journey to you, ladies and gents--go it just as long as you please--it shan't cost you a cent! [5]
What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
I have told you that I have just finished a long memoir, and that it has cost me no little labor to overcome some of its difficulties,--if I have overcome them, which others must decide. [6]
The false witness you bore will cost poor Hiram his life: but the merciful Saviour may forgive you at last. [10]
I know the wretch who has trodden down the flower of flowers in your heart, and I, madman that I am, can sing his praises, can take his part; and cost what it may, I will still do so as long as you. [10]
A great green wreath, which must have cost the parent oak a large fraction of its foliage, was an object of special admiration. [6]
I said it would cost us millions of dollars, and make all the other strikes we've had here look like fifty cents. [9]
It was only worth twenty-five dollars--that is, apparently that was its whole cost--but its ultimate cost was inevitably bound to be a good deal more. [5]
Liberty would be worth any cost that might be put upon it now. [5]
The eleven years' work had cost $55,000, and the first gold found was a grain the size of a pin's head. [5]
I was delighted with my new property,--but it cost me four dollars to get there, so far was it beyond the Pillars of Hercules of the fashionable quarter. [6]
And if I win the game, will it be worth its cost after all? [5]
The wench to whom he plighted his love was the daughter of a common craftsman, Pernhart the coppersmith, and when this came to my ears it angered me greatly; nay, and cost me bitter tears, as I told it to Ann. [10]
It was Virginia who entertained him, and even the Colonel never guessed what it cost her. [9]
At a cost which no human being could estimate, he had done his duty, and in some degree reaped his reward. [6]
The previous-engagement plea, which in forty years has cost you so many tinges, you cam lay aside forever; on this side of the grave you will never need it again. [5]
My uncle's Oregon-echo, which he called the Great Pitt Echo, was a twenty-two carat gem, and cost two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars--they threw the land in, for it was four hundred miles from a settlement. [5]
Now this one, which cost my uncle ten dollars, thirty years ago, and is one of the sweetest things in Texas, I will let you have for-- "Let me interrupt you," I said. [5]
Her first exploit, which cost her immense effort and established her authority, was the packing of the carpets. [2]
For the quarrel which came near being a civil war, which convulsed the state, and cost Barneveld his head, had its origin in a difference on certain points, and more especially on a single point, of religious doctrine. [6]
Laugh and ask: 'What will the passado cost, Fencing-master Allerts? [10]
But really, cost what it may, I must see this wonderful sight soon. [10]
You will know what it cost me, without my telling you. [5]
I have hurt what I would have spared from hurt at the cost of my life-- and all the lives in all the world! [11]
And then you were properly buried, and not by me either, nor at my cost, curse you again. [11]
It's jest as well to have 'em pooty as long as they don't cost any more than if they was Tom and Sally. [6]
Mr. Peckham knew well enough that it was just as well to have good instructors as bad ones, so far as cost was concerned, and a great deal better for the reputation of his feeding-establishment. [6]
With Barop's permission we had a banquet in the peasant tavern there, whose cost was defrayed by the kreutzers which had been paid as fines for offences against table rules. [10]
His one desire was to know what was happening and at any cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, an exemplary officer of twenty-two years' service, who had never been censured, should not be held to blame. [2]
She hoped it was this; and, at any cost, she must know the truth as to this question, which was not based on mere curiosity. [10]
There a throne was the prize, and might cost the blood and life of thousands!--What did a man bring home from the churches in the Nile valley? [10]
Although our author was somewhat far advanced, and Mr. Prescott had not yet collected his materials, Irving renounced the glorious theme in such a manner that Prescott never suspected the pain and loss it cost him, nor the full extent of his own obligation. [4]
And maybe it was so; we didn't know anything about it, but we judged it would please him, and it did, and didn't cost us anything. [5]
The scheme she was plotting was meant to punish him who had pained her; but she forgot that it might cost these brave men, husbands and fathers, their life or liberty. [10]
And now he was determined, if it cost him the effort of all his remaining days, to close another discussion and put forever to rest the anxious doubts about the larva of meloe. [6]
In fact, I was afraid the joke would have cost us both our new lady-boarders. [6]
Thus her presence was a source of peril to Alexander, and she must at any cost avert that. [10]
But when, after waking the priest, she had asked how much a goat might cost for sacrifice, her countenance cleared, for her savings were enough to pay for it and for a young cock as well. [10]
Then the sailors' wages were enough for comfortable support; but in 1797 through the rise in the cost of living, and with an advance of thirty per cent. [11]
It is much, very much, that it would cost no blood at all. [7]
It would cost very little to adjust the novel in this way to any season. [4]
We thought it very good of him, but he said money did not cost him anything. [5]
It is a very easy and pleasant way of giving an entertainment at little cost and with no responsibility. [6]
Amid the wild uproar prevailing around the gaming table that night the duel which had cost young Vorchtel his life was not mentioned until the last dice had been thrown. [10]
So much cost upon the body, so little upon souls; how many suits of apparel hath the one, or how little furniture hath the other! [4]
Without vouchsafing the unfortunate man even a glance or a word, she entered the nursery before he reached her; but he, feeling that he must follow her at any cost, laid his hand on the lock of the door and tried to open it. [10]
And I can understand how much it has cost you to remain under that unjust stigma to this time. [5]
And when he turned his eye earthwards again, still, even there, he had that which made it seem worth the cost of enduring the pangs of living and the brunt of the hardest battle: Paula and her love. [10]
However, to say true, my tastes are so catholic that I have never seen any cigars that I really could not smoke, except those that cost a dollar apiece. [5]
It was not true, but it was only a little thing to say, and saved his feelings and cost me nothing. [5]
Was this a trial of his constancy and faith, or had he made a mistake, entered upon a slavish career, from which he ought to extricate himself at any cost of the world's opinion? [4]
Perhaps it was too much to hope that he would mourn her sincerely, should the leap cost her life; but he would surely pity her, and he could never forget the moment of the fall, and therefore herself. [10]
No, it was too hard, it might cost him his sovereign's affection for ever. [10]
I indeed tried to turn from you; and I could have done it, even if it had cost me my heart's blood! [10]
Mrs. Murphy jumped to the conclusion that it would only cost two or three dollars to embalm her dead husband, and so she telegraphed "Yes. [5]
But he chooses to still try to thrust me upon different ground, without paying any attention to my answers, the obtaining of which from me cost him so much trouble and concern. [7]
Did she want to see Rudyard happy, no matter at what cost to Jasmine? [11]
We all like to see people in trouble, if it doesn't cost us anything. [5]
The point was to secure Hosea's services in the army at any cost, so he laid his hand on his friend's shoulder, saying: "You know that it was my wife who won you and others over to our cause. [10]
Then, the water to run it with would cost from $1,000 to $30,000--and even more, according to the location. [5]
Munroe advised me to obtain a subscription to a sufficient number of copies to secure the cost of the publication. [6]
Since you want to know, I will inform you that an eight-stamp water mill, put up and ready for business would cost about $10,000 to $12,000. [5]
Petya soon came to himself, the color returned to his face, the pain had passed, and at the cost of that temporary unpleasantness he had obtained a place by the cannon from where he hoped to see the Emperor who would be returning that way. [2]
His rule appears to have been to state just so much of the truth as would leave on the mind of his readers a correct impression, at the least cost of pain to the sensitive folks he was writing about. [5]
He had come to fetch her, cost him what it might, and to carry her away to his country-home, near Arsinoe on the coast. [10]
Since it was to cost nothing, we were not averse to using it, of course. [5]
I want you to be one of the vice-presidents of the State Economic League--it won't cost you anything. [9]
The cost has to all come out of a year's instalments of Autobiography in the N. A. [5]
I redeemed the tinware at pawnbroker's rates, less cost of advertising, bade the burglar good-night, closed the window after him, and retired to headquarters to report. [5]
His mother had tied up his hand, which Rameri had severely hurt; it was extremely painful, but he would not have missed the banquet at any cost, although he felt some alarm of the solemn ceremony. [10]
It cost the Tichborne estates $400,000 to unmask the Claimant and drive him out; and even after the exposure multitudes of Englishmen still believed in him. [5]
It cost me three shillings and eightpence, good honest coin of the last reign, that old Harry that's just dead ne'er touched or tampered with. [5]
The knives cost three dollars apiece. [5]
He received thirty thousand dollars for the chapters; the house cost him nearly double that amount. [5]
Who has ever thought of asking what compulsion led me to shed blood, or how much it cost me to do it? [10]
Mavick pulled through, though at an enormous cost, and with some diminution of the notion of his solidity. [4]
The cost of this structure would soon be recouped by the saving in labor, and with perfect certainty, if only the transport-ships were laden at Clysma with a profitable return freight of Alexandrian manufactures, instead of returning empty as they had hitherto done. [10]
An apparatus of this kind, with an operator, would cost, however, about as much as the peas. [4]
I can recommend this cow, if anybody wants one, as a steady boarder, whose keeping will cost the owner little; but, if her milk is at all like her voice, those who drink it are on the straight road to lunacy. [4]
Ah, but one thing to do--only one thing to do--save her at any cost, somehow save her! [11]
On the contrary, they must have had many sympathies, and it must have cost the secretary pain, as he said it did, to be forced to communicate with Mr. Moran instead of with Mr. Motley. [6]
Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. [5]
I have a theory that a newspaper might be published at little cost, merely by reprinting the numbers of years before, only altering the dates; just as the Parson preaches over his sermons. [4]
All we could then learn was that it was Ursula, and none other, whom the lad would still speak of as the She-devil, who had plotted the snare which had well nigh cost my other brother his life. [10]
I proved to them that in a quarter of a century their wages had advanced but 30 per cent., while the cost of living had gone up 100; and that with us, in a shorter time, wages had advanced 40 per cent. [5]
Finally, Seleukus presented the wives of the magnates who had shared with him the cost of this display, and among these, all magnificently dressed, the lady Berenike shone supreme by the pride of her demeanor and the startling magnificence of her attire. [10]
Though it gave the Vekeel no inculpating evidence against Orion it pointed to his connection with the guilty parties: Paula, doubtless, had been concerned in the scheme which had cost the lives of so many brave Moslems. [10]
The typesetting-machine and the unfortunate publishing venture were drawing heavily on the family finances at this period, and the cost of the Hartford establishment was too great to be maintained. [5]
You lied to the undertaker, and said your health was failing--a wholly commendable lie, since it cost you nothing and pleased the other man. [5]
At any cost the spirits of darkness must not be allowed to triumph over those of light. [10]
Seeing afar in the sands, Gardens grown green, at what cost! [11]
It had cost the Railroad many times fifteen thousand dollars to fight Galligan's case. [9]
Her costume for the prospective excursion in the automobile had cost Honora some thought that morning. [9]
These latter compel the peasant to bring his little trifle of grain to the village, at his own cost. [5]
The proof-reading on the P & P cost me the last rags of my religion. [5]
That was when the Notary, with the Seigneur, was for you--it has cost him something ever since, I'm told. [11]
Her people built the Mother-Church edifice on it, at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. [5]
I'm one of the men who ought to be put above temptation; be well bridled, well fed, and the mere cost of comfortable living provided, and then I'd do big things. [11]
We buy up the little lines for nothing, and get an interest in the big ones, and sell the little lines for fifty times what they cost us, and guarantee big dividends for the big lines. [9]

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