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Sentences ending with costly

Remorse always followed--the price he paid was always costly. [5]
The furniture, the ornaments, the chandeliers, the carpets, were all new and bright and costly. [5]
It all depends on whether the transport of the stone to the sea can be made less difficult and costly. [10]
Several fools--no, I mean several tourists--usually go together, and divide up the expense, and thus make it light; for if only one f--tourist, I mean--went, he would have to have several guides and porters, and that would make the matter costly. [5]
The room was large, light, and had a comfortable look, in fact a home-like look, though the furniture was of a humble sort and not over abundant, and the knickknacks and things that go to adorn a living-room not plenty and not costly. [5]
When I get home again I will offer up a cake or a fowl--a lamb is so costly. [10]
Effendina, my money has been busy in the army paying and bribing officers, and my spies were costly. [11]
I only want enough to eat and drink and wear, and that's not costly. [11]
Everything that the Alexandrians had prepared to do honor to their sovereign was magnificent and costly. [10]

More example sentences with the word costly in them

Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
He equipped it with costly furniture, with paintings, and a library. [6]
The costly urn, which thou wilt receive herewith, is sent by Sappho to preserve the ashes of the deceased. [10]
Though the materials which she selected were not the most costly, her aristocratic bearing made them appear valuable. [10]
The velvet pall wherewith his parents covered the bier of their beloved and firstborn son was so costly, that the price would easily have fed a poor household for years. [10]
If all medicine were very costly, and the expense of it always came out of the physician's fee, it would really be a less objectionable arrangement than this other most pernicious one. [3]
Next evening there were more costly gifts, but albeit Puer natus was still to be heard in the streets, we no longer were moved to join in. [10]
The magnificent apartments were made as light as day by thousands of wax-candles in silver and bronze candelabra; costly Gobelin tapestry and purple Flanders hangings covered the walls, and the bright hues of the paintings were reflected from the polished floors, flooded with brilliant light. [10]
The most costly were covered with fine red linen, wound about with strings of beads and gold ornaments, and with the name of the dead painted on the upper side. [10]
Its costly hilt was thickly set with rubies and turquoises. [10]
The cyanide process was new to me, and full of interest; and among the costly and elaborate mining machinery there were fine things which were new to me, but I was already familiar with the rest of the details of the gold-mining industry. [5]
Round her throat was fastened a necklace like a collar, made of pearls and costly stones, and hanging low down on her well-formed bosom. [10]
The supreme judge was distinguished by the possession of the longest and handsomest plume in his head-dress, and a costly sapphire amulet, which, suspended by a gold chain, hung on his breast. [10]
The lifeless form was concealed beneath a costly coverlid, in the centre of which lay an exquisitely-carved ivory crucifix. [10]
One of them was as notorious for costly and elegant cigars as I was for cheap and devilish ones. [5]
I do not want a costly apparatus to give pomp to my pursuit or to disguise its inutility. [6]
Above the bed various costly weapons and whips were elegantly displayed, and below them the seven arrows over which Setchem had read the words "Death to Mena. [10]
And did this vain woman go to rest with costly gold ornaments? [10]
When she picked up the costly rosary in Nuremberg, she had intended to return it to the owner. [10]
Gold and silver trappings lay there in abundance, costly articles of attire studded with precious stones . [10]
Her ambition was to appear simple and superior to all worldly vanities; still, all she wore must be rich and costly, for she was here to do honor to her creed. [10]
And yet she threw the costly birthday gift aside as if the flowers were apple parings. [10]
They said: "Doubtless this sailor-man is his minister--observe his costly badge of office! [5]
People say that this is costly amusement for him, since in crossing the sea he must sometimes be obliged to drink water from vessels that are more or less public, and thus damage his caste. [5]
So costly are these that "now it is a small matter to bestow twenty nobles, ten pound, twenty pound, fortie pound, yea a hundred pound of one pair of Breeches. [4]
In the howdah-house there were many howdahs that were made of silver, one of gold, and one of old ivory, and equipped with cushions and canopies of rich and costly stuffs. [5]
The owner of the voice bore all the marks of a gentleman: picturesque and costly raiment, the aspect of command, a hard countenance, with complexion and features marred by dissipation. [5]
The prosecutor accused the son of the Mukaukas of having made away, in defiance of the patriarch's injunction, with a costly emerald bequeathed to the Church by his father. [10]
I must inform the quartermasters at once, and look after the matter myself if your Majesty's costly magic pills are not to be spoiled by this wet April weather. [10]
Cars will carry the ore through the tunnel and dump it in the mills and thus do away with the present costly system of double handling and transportation by mule teams. [5]
The furniture of the narrow chamber of death we had just visited weighed six millions of francs in ounces and carats alone, without a penny thrown into the account for the costly workmanship bestowed upon them! [5]
Their warehouses were the great distributing depots from whence the costly merchandise of the East was sent abroad over Europe. [5]
A conversation about the Emperor's judgment and the rarity with which he bestowed such costly tokens of his regard was commencing in the chapel, but Barbara speedily brought it to a close by the assurance that she was utterly exhausted and needed rest. [10]
She delights in the costly pleasure of sacrificing them. [4]
Those warriors, on the contrary, who fought in chariots belonged to the highest rank of the military caste, spent large sums on the decoration of their two-wheeled chariots and the harness of their magnificent horses, and went to battle in their most costly ornaments. [10]
You were saying that you were robbed--and it was a shame, too--but it appears by what is left of the shroud you have on that it was a costly one in its day. [5]
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind; the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release. [5]
Despite the fact that her attention had been focussed so strongly on them, the fringe of her vision had included their surroundings, the costly furniture, the piano against the farther wall, the music rack. [9]
The lady begged that he, as an artist, would assist in choosing the robe; and the less conspicuous and costly it was the better. [10]
Upon the heavy tables were costly, illuminated volumes; luxurious chairs and ottomans invited to easy rest; and upon the ceiling Aurora led forth all the flower-strewing daughters of the dawn in brilliant frescoes. [4]
On the carved table near was a litter of books and of nameless little articles, costly and coquettish, which assert femininity, even in a literary atmosphere. [4]
But some were stripped and littered with scaffolding and plaster, new and costly marble mantels were replacing the wood, and an Italian of some renown was decorating the ceilings. [9]
That was a steady, sympathetic and honorable team, and although it was not swift, and not showy, it pulled me around the globe successfully, and always attracted its proper share of attention, even in the midst of the most costly and fashionable turnouts. [5]
Imagine a stranger staking out a mining claim among the costly shrubbery in your front yard and calmly proceeding to lay waste the ground with pick and shovel and blasting powder! [5]
He had hesitated some time ere doing this; for he was aware that he would encounter great perils; but this circlet was his one costly possession and, during his captivity, it had been very difficult for him to hide it under his apron. [10]
Bear and leopard skins lay on the cushions, and upon the shelf which surrounded three sides of the apartment stood costly vases, gold and silver utensils, Venetian mirrors and goblets. [10]
On the envoy's shoulder blazed the badge of the highest officials, a cruciform ornament of a peculiarly thick and costly tissue. [10]
She knew that she could reciprocate his costly gift; for how ardently she longed to have one kind, forgiving word from his lips. [10]
None but a Seleukus can afford to employ so costly a brush as your brother's is--thank the Muses! [10]
A long trailing robe of costly brocade, blue on the left side and yellow on the right, now floated around her tall figure. [10]
He wore a red velvet coat embroidered with gold, and as costly ruffles as I had ever seen in London. [9]
The stairways are records of acts of piety; the crowd of costly little temples are tokens of money spent by rich men for present credit and hope of future reward. [5]
It was a poor time to float any costly enterprise. [5]
What made a person desired in any company was the talent of being agreeable, talent of some sort, not the ability to give a costly dinner or a big ball. [4]
She can't either pawn or sell Count Luigi's costly Indian dagger. [5]
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. [7]
It is my opinion that the most costly scenery in the world is thrown away upon a pair of newly plighted lovers. [4]
Paula at once opened a chest, and took out a costly and beautifully-wrought necklace set with pearls. [10]
If you could only see how they come swarming from every side with their costly plunder! [10]
Melissa saw no one, nor did she observe the costly woven hangings on the walls, the friezes decorated with rare works of art and high reliefs, nor the mosaic floors over which she passed. [10]
There is still one hitch about it, and a bad one just now, namely, that many people think they can buy its spirit by jerks of liberality, by costly gifts. [4]
At sunset, leaning on the steward's arm, he went to the Temple of Nemesis, where he prayed and commissioned the priest to offer a costly sacrifice to the goddess in his name. [10]
As he goes on he warms up: "Thus you may see plainly the yearly success from New England by Virginia, which hath been so costly to this kingdom and so dear to me. [4]
The peplos was of the same color and decorated to match; costly clasps of mosaic, representing full-blown roses and set in oval gold settings, fastened it on the shoulders. [10]
But the dregs of the fugitive hordes were still more greedy than they, and wherever the sea washed a costly ornament ashore, there were fierce outcries and angry quarrelling. [10]
Soon the fumes of the delicate tobacco of Persia pervaded the room, like some costly aroma which you cannot buy, now the entertainment of the Arabian Nights is discontinued. [4]
Though it is of costly material, who would suspect it? [10]
Presently the owner of a river pleasure-steamer entered into the costly emulation also, but he soon fell away; and Virginie Poucette stubbornly raised the bidding by five dollars each time, till the silver symbol of the Barbilles' pride had reached one hundred dollars. [11]
It never would occur to this simple soul how much less costly it would be to me, to hire him on a good salary not to manage it. [5]
If you have nothing but a rag-doll stuffed with sawdust, while one of your more fortunate little playmates has a costly China one, you should treat her with a show of kindness nevertheless. [5]
If extinction, and not life and growth, is the better rule, what a costly mistake we have been making! [4]
But there is no smell in our church, except of bad air,--for there is no provision for ventilation in the splendid and costly edifice. [4]
He appealed to Nilus, and when the treasurer had calculated the cost, Orion took off a costly sapphire ring, which he gave to Mary, charging her to hand it to Joanna. [10]
This was the most costly and notable of all the many tributes I received, and for which in different forms I expressed my gratitude. [6]
Not a bit more costly, and you do some good with it. [11]
When, a few months after Wolff's union with his heart's beloved, the coffin of old Countess Rotterbach, adorned with a handsome coronet upon the costly pall, was borne out of the house at the quiet evening hour, she thought there was no cause to mourn. [10]
They tore the meat from the bones, and the soldier, especially, devoured the costly and unwonted meal like some ravenous animal. [10]
And yet, how many of us have at this very moment a peau de chagrin of our own, diminishing with every costly wish indulged, and incapable, like the magical one of the story, of being arrested in its progress. [6]
But there was many an empty space, too, in the broad corridor for, spite of Emperor Rudolph's strictness, robbery on the highroads had by no means ceased, and Herr Ernst Ortlieb was still compelled to use caution in the transportation of costly wares. [10]
She had despatched many a costly box to addresses he had given her. [4]
If the old man was forced to declare himself bankrupt Siebenburg's creditors would instantly seize his splendid chargers and costly suits of armour, scarcely one half of which were paid for. [10]
There, if a man be rich, they give him costly presents, they ask him to feasts, they invite him to drink complicated beverages; but if he be poor and in debt, they require him to do that which they term to "settle. [5]
Inlaid with flowers made of costly gems--5. [5]
She wore a long robe, which reached below her ankles; it was of costly material, but dark in color, and of a studied simplicity. [10]
To them the lauded blind artist was not much more than a costly dish certain to please their guests; yet this, too, was no trifle in social circles which spent small fortunes for a rare fish. [10]
A cup-bearer was kneeling on the ground at his feet, trying to collect the broken fragments of a costly Egyptian drinking-cup which the king had thrown down impatiently because its contents had not pleased his taste. [10]
They and the king united in feeding it with costly perfumes, Cambyses offered the sacrifice, and, holding the while a golden bowl high in the air, besought the gods to grant him victory and glory. [10]
He now approached Katuti with the certainty of success, like a merchant who means to acquire some costly object, and feels that he is rich enough to pay for it. [10]
A man who is white-washing a fence is doing a useful thing, so also is the man who is adorning a rich man's house with costly frescoes; and all of us are sane enough to judge these performances by standards proper to each. [5]
The space within is planted with flowers, and laid out for the burial of the people; the arcades are devoted to the occupation of those who can afford costly tombs. [4]
The Baptistery, which is a few years older than the Leaning Tower, is a stately rotunda, of huge dimensions, and was a costly structure. [5]
The spacious apartment into which she was now ushered was hung with costly bright-hued Oriental rugs. [10]
She could have inflicted various punishments upon herself for her precipitate yielding to a hastily awakened sympathy, for it would surely anger the Emperor if he learned how carelessly she had treated his first costly gift. [10]
We have seen, in these old churches, a profusion of costly and elaborate sepulchre ornamentation such as we never dreampt of before. [5]
On each deck in the forepart of the ship sat twelve rowers, their aprons attached by costly fastenings. [10]
These were wrought in silver and gold, and set with costly marbles, and they stood out from the marble background like metal work on a leather shield, or the rich ornamentation on a sword-sheath. [10]
She was dressed in priestly robes and wore a costly head-dress with the winged disc and the Uraeus. [10]
If he lived in England the Humane Society would give him a gold medal as costly as this watch, and nobody would say: "It is out of character. [5]
Clothed for peace, in costly stuffs and rich colors, the Paladin was a tower dyed with the glories of the sunset; plumed and sashed and iron-clad for war, he was a still statelier thing to look at. [5]
He went always in costly state, attended by pages and esquires, and accompanied by noble young cavaliers of his country, who had enrolled themselves under his banner, to learn the gentle exercise of arms. [4]

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