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Sentences ending with expense

I knew he would never consent to spend the season at the Star and Garter at my expense. [9]
But I knew what was the matter with him; it was the expense. [5]
The Honourable Council was obliged, willing or unwilling, to defray the necessary expense. [10]
Is it nothing to them to be able to dazzle this poor town with thousand-dollar rewards--at no expense? [5]
Is it nothing to them to appear as pets of an Oriental prince--at no expense? [5]
This letter happened to be over-weight, which gave Mark Twain a chance for some amusing exaggerations at his expense. [5]
If we lift those people up, we have a right to lift ourselves up nine or ten grades or so, at their expense. [5]
In return for this slight favor the manager sent an invitation for Mark Twain to come and see the play --to be present on the opening night, as it were, at his (the manager's) expense. [5]
I allude to these sorrowful things only to prevent your praises of me at Hermon's expense. [10]
They had gathered there at eight o'clock that morning to elect a new member, and they had now been drinking beer four hours at the new member's expense. [5]

Sentences containing expense two or more times

The cars of a railroad cannot without immense expense rise high enough to get even with a suspension bridge or go low enough to get through a tunnel; such expense is unreasonable. [7]

More example sentences with the word expense in them

The idea of your house going to the wanton expense of a flower garden! [5]
I didn't expect you to go to the expense of getting a seat. [9]
I can't give you any passes, and I know you don't want any, but you can just get into my private car and no expense to anybody, and see all there is to be seen. [4]
The poorest even would have glass, but home-made--a foolish expense, for the glass soon went to bits, and the pieces turned to no profit. [4]
The decorous families who were now allying themselves with St. John's did so at the expense of other churches either more radical or less fashionable. [9]
Those among them who have money take their pleasure simply and with the least expense of physical energy. [4]
I don't know what expense the gardener has been to about it, what material and care have been necessary to bring it to perfection. [4]
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]
The free inhabitants, unaccustomed to such restrictions, revenged themselves by cutting witticisms at Caesar's expense, "for clearing the streets of Alexandria by his men-at-arms as he did those of Rome by the executioner. [10]
People that want to, can go to the expense and trouble of shipping their oils to Europe and back--it's their privilege; but our firm knows a trick worth six of that. [5]
We were beginning to perceive that charity did not consist in dispensing largesse after making a fortune at the expense of one's fellow-men; that there was something still wrong in a government that permits it. [9]
Yes, we are to meet at Mr. Beach's next Thursday night, and I suppose we shall have to be gotten up regardless of expense, in swallow-tails, white kids and everything en regle. [5]
The hosts were to march after the festival of the New Year, which Cambyses celebrated this time with immense expense and profusion. [10]
Shame for consenting to keep his unearned titles, property, and privileges--at the expense of other people; shame for consenting to remain, on any terms, in dishonourable possession of these things, which represented bygone robberies and wrongs inflicted upon the general people of the nation. [5]
She ought never to go to the expense of copyrighting her verbal discharges. [5]
His proposition was to endow the colleges at the expense of the fund for the support of the common schools. [6]
Mrs. Larrabbee's temptation to be witty at the expense of those for whom she had no liking had led Hodder to discount the sketch. [9]
One at a time the contestants enter, clothed regardless of expense in what each considers the perfection of style and taste, and walk down the vacant central space and back again with that multitude of critical eyes on them. [5]
Will you do this at once, or will you compel me to show you the absolute necessity of your doing it, at the expense of pain to both of us? [6]
I only fear they will cultivate it at the expense of the strawberries and melons. [4]
He has seen these nondescripts of ingenuity and expense in the shop windows, but he never expected to come into personal relations to them. [4]
You ask if there is promise enough there to justify the Hartford folk in going to an expense of training this young man. [5]
It rather took the wind out of the stable-keeper, and set a most ammoniacal fellow, who stood playing with a currycomb, grinning at his expense. [6]
It said that the vast expense of maintaining the army had made it necessary to retrench, and so the Government had decided that to support the army it would be necessary to withdraw the appropriation from the public schools. [5]
I tell you the honest truth when I say I could squander away as many as a dozen feasts like this and never care _that_ for the expense! [5]
No poetry at the expense of truth. [5]
We have appropriated the English conviviality, the German simplicity, the Roman pomp, and we have added to it an element of expense in keeping with our own greatness. [4]
The senate of the city had found the expense of this huge building too heavy, and had been well content to let the lower rooms to Philippus and his Egyptian friend, Horapollo. [10]
The hilarity at the association's expense burst all bounds, now. [5]
A horrible suspicion that she was having a little fun at my expense crossed my mind. [9]
And I marked that she never allowed her talk with him to drift into deep water; when there was danger of this she would draw the entire table into their conversation by some adroit remark, or create a laugh at his expense. [9]
Their idea is that its conglomerate metals will reimburse them their cost of original extraction, the price of transportation, and the expense of reduction, and that then a ton of the raw ore will net them twelve hundred dollars. [5]
Now she rejoiced that her wealthy father imposed no restriction upon her in the management of household affairs, for she need spare no expense in choosing the animal she intended to offer as a sacrifice. [10]
It is impossible that a workingman who stands upon a metropolitan street corner and observes this Bacchanalian revel and prodigality of expense, should not be embittered by a sense of the inequality of the conditions of life. [4]
Have some large tents pitched in the Necropolis, and all who fall sick of the pestilence removed there at the expense of the city and tended under their shade. [10]
If he opposed some measures for the general good, like high schools and school libraries, it was because he lacked perspective, in his intense individualism, and suspected all expense of being spendthrift. [8]
It was not so easy to give up daily luxury, and habits of ease at the expense of attendants, or the ostentation which had become a second nature. [4]
And so we'll shop around and get up this layout now, and don't you worry about the expense. [5]
I do not see any wisdom in building a monster cask to hoard up emptiness in, when you can get a better quality, outside, any day, free of expense. [5]
Recklessness does not reflect, it plunges fearlessly in with a hurrah, and takes the risks, whatever they may be, regardless of expense. [5]
That is the question; for insect it is,--phyllum siccifolium, the "walking leaf," as some have called it.--The Master had a hearty laugh at my expense. [6]
Why have to put up with all this useless expense and worry and waste of time? [9]
He should be put to extry expense, and have to perform additional labors himself. [6]
These conclusions were pursued at the expense of speech on my part. [11]
We riot in prodigality, we vie with each other in material accumulation and expense. [4]
Our ship and passengers lay under expense and in humiliating captivity all night, under the very nose of the little official reptile who is supposed to protect New York from pestilence by his vigilant "inspections. [5]
Granted that this pabulum is desired by the reader, why not save the expense of transmission by having several columns of it stereotyped, to be reproduced at proper intervals? [4]
Just use the ordinary gas pipes--and there your expense ends. [5]
Probably no one of them would have, at individual expense, sent the wife of the village policeman to a hospital in London, to be cured--or to die--of cancer. [11]
The perfect peace of mind of the monks was purchased at the expense of the extirpation of every want, all will, every human interest. [4]
The immutable principles of justice are to make way for party interests, and the bonds of social order are to be rent in twain, in order that a desperate faction may be sustained at the expense of the people. [7]
Comparisons between men of genius for the sake of aggrandizing the one at the expense of the other are the staple of the meaner kinds of criticism. [6]
As few importers of Chinese would want to go to an expense like that, the law-makers thought this would be another heavy blow to Chinese immigration. [5]
The extra expense of an orchestra seat he put down to his duty to keep his family informed of anything that interested them in the city. [4]
At the moment of action, man will no doubt be apt to follow the stronger impulse; and though this may occasionally prompt him to the noblest deeds, it will more commonly lead him to gratify his own desires at the expense of other men. [1]
If they feel obliged to print a receipt on a horse-blanket, why don't they hire a ship and send it over at their own expense? [5]
There was the obelisk, brought from Egypt at the expense of a distinguished and successful medical practitioner, Sir Erasmus Wilson, the eminent dermatologist and author of a manual of anatomy which for many years was my favorite text-book. [6]
This regiment of Nubians Kaid had recruited from the far south, and had maintained at his own expense. [11]
And I do not judge, either, by the newspaper estimates of the expense. [4]
There was a noble financial policy, a curtailment of expense. [9]
But there was no lavishing of expense. [4]
Of course I need not add that in the event of such an arrangement being made, you would be put to no expense. [14]
There is so much more display and expense. [4]
The daughter Of modern civilization dressed at her utmost best is a marvel of exquisite and beautiful art and expense. [5]
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]
And that leads me to say, I cannot help thinking that the kind of criticism to which this Young Girl has been subjected from some person or other, who is willing to be smart at her expense, is hurtful and not wholesome. [6]
Parties desiring to make only a part of the proposed tour, and thus save expense, may stop over at any star they choose and wait for the return voyage. [5]
In all candor let me ask, was such a system for benefiting the few at the expense of the many ever before devised? [7]
If one were less greedy or less foolish, some one else would have and would shine at his expense. [8]
His father of late holds on to thalers more than anxiously and, if I am correctly informed, the education of his son has hitherto cost his Majesty no more expense than the maintenance of the mother. [10]
He was at large expense in fitting out the Ranger, and he bought back at twice what it was worth the plate taken from St. Mary's Isle, getting but a tardy recognition from the Earl of Selkirk for such a noble and unheard-of action. [9]
A noble could kill a noble without expense, as far as the law was concerned, but reprisals in kind were to be expected. [5]
She had her joke at my expense as she went through the court-yard, and she reminded me that we were to send a report by Andre every day. [9]
Otherwise, please hand it to J. R. Osgood in time for him to have it published at my expense. [5]
They saw that it caused a competition in expense ruinous to cavaliers of moderate fortune; and they feared that a softness and effeminacy might thus be introduced, incompatible with the stern nature of the war. [4]
The young king is cracked about Wagner, and appears to care little for other music: he brings out his operas at great expense, and it is the fashion here to like Wagner whether he is understood or not. [4]
He tried Aztec inscriptions and stuffed whales--another failure, after incredible labor and expense. [5]
Thus far, the increase of beauty due to better development has not been at the expense of delicacy of complexion and of line, as it has been in some European countries. [4]
She adds six inches to her skirt, she unplaits her dangling braids and balls her hair on top of her head, she stops sleeping with her little sister and has a room to herself, and becomes in many ways a thundering expense. [5]
He lived alone in a little but near his lime-kiln by the river, with no near neighbours, and few companions save his four dogs; and these he fed sometimes at expense of his own stomach. [11]
We had an idea at first that only a mint could have survived the expense. [5]
The navy, as I understand it, was established, and is maintained at a great annual expense, partly to be ready for war when war shall come, and partly also, and perhaps chiefly, for the protection of our commerce on the high seas. [7]
At great expense, however; for, in order to make the scheme effective, Angele should visit De la Foret at night. [11]
It costs the household hardly any trouble or expense. [6]
The cure of his Majesty's melancholy is my principal object, it is true, but one half the expense of this medicine ought to be credited to me; for--but do not tell the treasurer--for it will afford me relief also. [10]
She now saw herself secure against external anxiety, nay, in such ease that she was justified in living at some expense. [10]
If Providence permitted her to die?-- well, she had had two years of happiness with the man she loved, at some expense to himself--was it not fair that Rosalie should have her share? [11]
Boston has glorified her State House and herself at the expense of a few sheets of gold leaf laid on the dome, which shines like a sun in the eyes of her citizens, and like a star in those of the approaching traveller. [6]
Her abnormal wilfulness, her insane love of pleasure, her hereditary impulses, had been exercised at the expense of the great thing in her, the soul so capable of memorable and beautiful deeds. [11]
At the start he meant well by his people, but he meant better by himself; and not being able to satisfy both sides of the equation, he satisfied one at the expense of the other and of that x quantity otherwise known as Europe. [11]
I said I had not, and that New York clubs were a continuous expense to the country members without being of frequent use or benefit to them. [5]
However, he will get over this by-and-by, when Shelley commits his next indiscretion and has to be guessed out of it at Harriet's expense. [5]
They offer a full house and no expense in Dayton--go there next. [5]
Jean Jacques' good fortune, as things were, made his own good fortune; for he ate and drank and slept and was clothed at his son-in-law's expense. [11]
Trouble and expense for Mr. Brant once more; and, besides, it was with the greatest difficulty that he succeeded in persuading the master to let the youth go unprosecuted for the theft. [5]
Take the army, for instance--now twenty-five thousand men; expense, twenty-two millions a year. [5]
It was contemptible for a man in love to count his words, and it was intolerable to be haggling with himself at such a crisis over the expense of a despatch. [4]
Those of the first class, as to rank and expense, cost about a thousand guldens. [4]
To-day they are feeding at the expense of rich Josephus. [10]
Jests at his expense, if well written, usually amused him; cheap jokes only made him sad; but sarcasms and innuendoes were likely to enrage him, particularly if he believed them prompted by malice. [5]

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