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Sentences starting with costs

Costs the life of a palm tree 12 to 20 years old--for it is the pith. [5]
Costs you a little mite more to live in it, don't it? [9]

Sentences ending with costs

Arrived in New York, Col. Jack said: "I've heard tell of carriages all my life, and now I mean to have a ride in one; I don't care what it costs. [5]
However, on our way to invite the others, I said: "You must allow me to have these friends come; and you must also allow me to pay the costs. [5]
It has decreed that irritating "party cries" shall not be indulged in, and that persons uttering them shall be fined forty shillings and costs. [5]
You know what that costs. [10]
Here do I smile between the warring hosts Of sad farewells; and reek not what it costs. [11]
They go part of the way in English steamers, and the ten or twelve dollars they pay for passage is about all the trip costs. [5]
It is the decree of the court that she forfeit to the said lord bishop all her goods, even to the last farthing that she doth possess, and be thereto mulcted in the costs. [5]
But worst of all, we ignore and never mention the Sole Impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs. [5]

Short sentences using costs

It costs something, too. [9]
All this costs money. [10]
A Congressional appropriation costs money. [5]

Sentences containing costs two or more times

I am obliged to doubt that the three-dollar Science and Health costs Mrs. Eddy above fifteen cents, or that the six dollar copy costs her above eighty cents. [5]
Yes, and in the Simplified it costs one hundred and twenty-three pen-strokes to write it, whereas in the phonographic it costs only twenty-nine. [5]
We must be patient, as our fathers were patient; even in our worst calamities, we must remember that defeat itself may be a gain where it costs our enemy more in relation to his strength than it costs ourselves. [6]

More example sentences with the word costs in them

You won't when you find out what it costs you. [4]
Every detail connected with the matter costs something, and helps to fatten a priest. [5]
Sighs are cheap with him, and every word costs a ducat. [10]
Once more he ventured to protest, but I told him my resolution was fixed, and that I would at all costs secure escape from my six years' misery. [11]
It seemed to us that everybody ought to be good in a country where it costs next to nothing. [4]
The costs devolve upon the outraged plaintiff--another iniquity. [5]
We shall try to find a tenant for our Hartford house; not an easy matter, for it costs heavily to live in. [5]
It costs five thousand dollars cash and shuts down on the incorporated company to stop the works at this point, but Sally Sellers's happiness is worth more than that. [5]
It referred to the uniform and inevitable fine of forty shillings and costs for uttering a party cry--and it is no economical fine for a poor man, either, by the way. [5]
We afterward had the thing reconstructed, and the owner can have his adventurous lost-property by submitting proofs and paying costs of rehabilitation. [5]
The ordinary reverence, the reverence defined and explained by the dictionary costs nothing. [5]
He will secure the largest share possible of that, at all costs, all sacrifices. [5]
I tell you, the higher a man has to carry the raw material of thought before he works it up, the more it costs him in blood, nerve, and muscle. [6]
We value little that which costs us no trouble to maintain. [4]
This would involve some legal proceedings with considerable costs, and also contact with Joel Mazarine, whom he had not yet seen; for Mazarine had come while he was away in England. [11]
Our room (the same that Dr. Wallace occupied there) and boarding only costs us four dollars a week. [7]
His only other resource was to buy out an existing business, and this usually costs a good deal. [4]
So this one piled the fees and costs and everything on to me. [5]
The lowest class of those able to have a funeral costs twenty-five guldens. [4]
All that kind of politics costs, you see. [5]
No, that is not what I mean; I mean I know a bad cigar better than anybody else; I judge by the price only; if it costs above 5 cents I know it to be either foreign or half-foreign, and unsmokeable. [5]
He alone knows my love for Scotland, and what it costs me to renounce her. [9]
It costs three months of writing and telegraphing to pull off a success. [5]
And it costs money to move 'em round, don't it? [9]
Tell 'em the mail and express leave three times a week, and it costs from 25 to 50 cents to send letters by the blasted express. [5]
It probably spends little for news, has only one or, at most, two editors, is crowded with advertisements, which are inserted cheap, and costs, delivered, a little over six francs a year. [4]
I've been thinking--this is entirely impersonal--that it costs more to keep one fine lady going than it does a college. [4]
It costs the household hardly any trouble or expense. [6]
Hampton suited Ditmar, his passion was the Chippering Mill; and he was in process of steeling himself to resist, whatever the costs, this preposterous plan when he was mercifully released by death. [9]
Let us give him a first-rate fit out; it costs us nothing. [6]
At all costs he must follow and learn the fate of the yacht. [11]
To all this he listened devoutly, and when the doctor left him he said to himself, "I will see her and speak with her, if it costs me my life. [6]
Many of them have to rake and scrape a long time to gather together the ten dollars their steamer passage costs, and when one of them gets back he is a bankrupt forever after. [5]
It costs a great many thousands of dollars and over four years of time to produce a really good base-ball player, and the time and money invested in the production of a society young woman are not less. [4]
You see, they give the magistrate a poor little starvation salary, and then turn him loose on the public to gouge for fees and costs to live on. [5]
He made me, for the first time, feel what it costs a man to declare affection when he doubts response. [14]
All were silent, for the dumb shadow was of no use for work; she was half-dead, and a burial costs money. [10]
It will do for $1 what now costs $3. [5]
For some clubs even are a weariness, and it costs money to hire other people to read and think for us. [4]
It is so easy to be bloated aristocrats where it costs nothing of consequence! [5]
Habits are the crutches of old age; by the aid of these we manage to hobble along after the mental joints are stiff and the muscles rheumatic, to speak metaphorically,--that is to say, when every act of self-determination costs an effort and a pang. [6]
See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. [5]
And it only costs a trifle; two millions or two and a half will do it. [5]
And grease it costs a lot, political grease does. [11]
In the Milan cathedral it costs five francs to see it, and at St. Peter's, at Rome, it is almost impossible to see it at any price. [5]
Miss Brass being by this time deep in the bill of costs, took no notice whatever of Dick, but went scratching on, with a noisy pen, scoring down the figures with evident delight, and working like a steam-engine. [12]
Oh, the weather bureau is worth all the money it costs, for business purposes. [4]
It costs about as much as those navies that have ships and guns, but it is more in accord with the peaceful spirit of the age. [4]
It costs trouble, and work, and sometimes money; but it pays in the end. [5]
We must make and keep the great river free, whatever it costs us; it is strapping up the forefoot of the wild, untamable rebellion. [6]
Margin of profit above cost of manufacture, from five hundred to seven hundred per cent., as already noted In the profane subscription-trade, it costs the publisher heavily to canvass a three-dollar book; he must pay the general agent sixty per cent. [5]
One "course," in a two-horse carriage, costs a franc--that is law--but the hackman always demands more, on some pretence or other, and if he gets it he makes a new demand. [5]
When we have a rich ambassador in London or Paris, he lives as the ambassador of a country like ours ought to live, and it costs him $100,000 a year to do it. [5]
The Dore costs a hundred dollars a copy, Russia leather, beveled. [5]
That on the "Emancipation Proclamation," delivered in Boston in September, 1862, is as full of "silent joy" at the advent of "a day which most of us dared not hope to see,--an event worth the dreadful war, worth its costs and uncertainties. [6]

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