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Sentences starting with worth

Worth is more than wealth, and industrious subjects are more to a kingdom than gold. [4]

Sentences ending with worth

That's what I'm worth. [11]
She grew to womanhood, and gave her heart to one who could not know its worth. [12]
I do not wish to impose my opinion on any one who will not permit it, but such as it is I offer it here for what it is worth. [5]
The contemptuous glances which others might cast at her I should scorn, for I know her worth. [10]
Now what a way to talk that is: What do you suppose that trunk is worth? [5]
That day's catch was about $70,000 worth. [5]
And we work them for all they are worth. [5]
No paper in the United States can afford to pay me what my place on the "Enterprise" is worth. [5]
The doctor took the story for what it was worth. [6]
West of Cincinnati the smallest coin in use was the silver five-cent piece and no smaller quantity of an article could be bought than "five cents' worth. [5]

Short sentences using worth

I was never worth while. [11]
Oh, it is worth trying! [9]
You'll find him worth studying. [5]
This fact is worth remembering. [7]
My sensations are worth noting. [9]
You'll meet people worth knowing. [11]
Was any cause worth it? [9]
It was well worth it. [5]
The business isn't worth it. [11]
I am not worth it! [2]

Sentences containing worth two or more times

The late Silas Wright, in a letter to the Chicago convention, contributed his, which was worth something; and I now contribute mine, which may be worth nothing. [7]
It will be worth your while to speak out, I assure you; much better worth your while than you believe. [12]
It is well worth while to set down this noble fact, and well worth while to put it in italics, too. [5]
Some of 'em's worth twenty dollars apiece--there ain't any, hardly, but's worth six bits or a dollar. [5]
All of him worth the having--was any worth the having? [11]
His high moral worth is certainly worth some attention; moreover, my vows, I have no doubt, are recorded in the book of life, and must I give these all up? [5]
I owe you whatever I am that's worth while, if anything I am is worth while. [11]
If the stock was worth such a gallant figure, with five thousand shares in the corporation, it makes me dizzy to think what it would have been worth with only our original six hundred in it. [5]
I'm worth enough to make a prince rich, and if I'd been treated right by those I brought into the world I'd be worth twice as much. [11]
I do not rebind the thing, because that would look as if I thought it worth keeping, whereas it is only worth glancing at and casting aside. [5]

More example sentences with the word worth in them

When I hold your hand I feel that life's worth living--I want to do things. [11]
If I give you the sure means to win your election, it would be worth while--eh? [11]
Stop a minute, you men; it is worth while, Sir, to tarry a moment. [10]
I don't believe you men know, half the time, whether a lady wears a nine-penny collar or a thread-lace cape worth a thousand dollars. [6]
My advice to you is to keep quiet, and we may have a comedy worth seeing. [9]
I have loved you from the moment we first met; and if my life has anything left worth accepting, it is yours. [6]
By the Ghost, you are worth seven of that Roger Spratt whom you sent to hell in his boots. [9]
I haven't asked you any of the particulars, Captain, but I judge it goes without saying--if my experience is worth anything--that there wasn't much of a hooraw made over you when you arrived--now was there? [5]
During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
Twenty of him wouldn't be worth the trouble he's makin'. [8]
The best capture wouldn't be worth a drachm if we could not say, 'Hurrah! [10]
Smith said he would sell $200 or $300 worth himself. [5]
Not that he would break with it exactly; it was not necessary to do that; but he would find something to do, something worth a man's doing, or, at any rate, some occupation that should tax his time and his energies. [4]
Of what small worth would she have seemed to him, and to herself!--When this tyranny should be overpast, when he should be gone to some other part of his immense empire, if those she loved were spared she could be happy--ah! [10]
Perhaps it is worth while, in view of certain recent discussions, and especially of some free criticisms of this country, to consider whether there is any intention of progress in this world, and whether that intention is discoverable in the age in which we live. [4]
It is not worth while to try to get any grip upon the cloud of minor gods, there are too many of them. [5]
It was not worth while to tell them "the letter kills. [5]
It makes life worth while to talk to men like you who do really big things. [11]
It would be worth while to pass a week or a month among the plain, average people of Stratford. [6]
It might be worth while to inquire what effect this exciting accumulation of the news of the world upon an individual or a community has upon happiness and upon character. [4]
It is hardly worth while to consider the projects for relieving the Mississippi River floods by creating new outlets, since these sensational propositions have commended themselves only to unthinking minds, and have no support among engineers. [5]
And it isn't worth while to bear any malice. [9]
It may be worth while to be careful what one says before her. [6]
Well, isn't it worth while making the bargain? [11]
Anyway, it was worth while making such a beauty care for him. [11]
It is not worth while being so--to anybody," was her chilly answer. [11]
I knew her worth when first she came to London, as arrant a baggage as ever led man a dance. [9]
The idea is worth untold shekels. [5]
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]
This gift was worth twenty houses in the city, and made its owner a rich man. [10]
Them di'monds is worth twelve thousand dollars. [5]
And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life in comparison with eternity? [2]
It would be worth to the nation a hundred years purchase of peace and prosperity. [7]
It will be worth the trouble; I'll translate it for you. [10]
And was it worth the trouble, anyway? [5]
If I'd been worth the standing by, I'd have been the better stood by. [11]
The game isn't worth the candle. [11]
Ah, it was worth ten years of a man's life to be dead then! [5]
It should be worth ten times the other, and the world called the other the work of a genius, dog. [11]
The glimpse was worth something, as a remembrancer, but that was all. [5]
There was nothing worth seeing on the Big Ivy way. [4]
Why, he was worth saving on his mother's account if not his own. [5]
And it is worth reflection what we should do, what could we spend our energies on, and what would evoke them, we who are both civilized and enlightened, if all nations were civilized and the earth were entirely subdued. [4]
The letter is worth reading today, if for no other reason, to show the absurdity of copyright conditions which prevailed at that time. [5]
The pearls were worth over ten thousand dollars--in all, there would be eleven thousand, enough to secure Rosalie from poverty. [11]
For you are worth more to us just now than any prince we have; at least so says the Grande Marquise. [11]
You have been worth more to me than another regiment. [9]
It was not worth more than a dollar, or possibly a dollar and half, before the captive students began their work on it. [5]
But it is worth mentioning that in the historical evolution we have always got better things than we sought or imagined, developments on a much grander scale. [4]
Desert, it is worth making a note of. [4]
You said: 'Life's worth living now. [11]
What life ever worth living has been without its tender attachment? [9]
She lost $60,000 worth last night. [5]
Secondly, she was worth it in every way. [11]
What it'll be worth in another twenty years I don't know. [11]
Otherwise, any happiness worth having is out of the question. [9]
But many thoughts worth gathering are dropped along these pages. [6]
Your life is worth fighting for, but it will be a struggle. [11]
My page is worth eighty-four dollars to me. [5]
What is there worth doing? [11]
The only thing worth doing in this world is to live life according to one's convictions--and one's heart. [11]
The service was worth coming seven miles to participate in!--it was about two hours long, and one might well feel as if he had performed a work of long-suffering to sit through it. [4]
Trees won't grow worth chucks in a Cincinnati graveyard, but in a Sent Louis graveyard they grow upwards of eight hundred foot high. [5]
This estate is worth at least a quarter of a million now. [11]
Like most inspirations worth anything, it was very simple. [9]
If my opinion's worth anything, I should not hesitate to declare that we're on the threshold of a greater religious era than the world has ever seen. [9]
A blow-out ain't worth anything as a blow-out, unless a body has company. [5]
Liberty would be worth any cost that might be put upon it now. [5]
To high moral worth and irreproachable habits were joined gentleness of manner, an ingenuous disposition, and vigor of understanding. [4]
It would be worth a year of battles to abolish this delusion, though the great sponge of war that wiped it out were moistened with the best blood of the land. [6]
It was not worth a swing of the executioner's axe in these times of war. [9]
Mr. Crozier is worth a real queen with the beauty of one of the Rhine maidens. [11]
For I was worth a million dollars, and did not care "whether school kept or not! [5]
It is well worth a long ride to visit. [6]
The stone is worth a landed estate, and though I am not a rich man, I would pay down two talents for it at any moment, even if I had to borrow the money. [10]
The spectacle was worth a journey to see. [4]
Imagine a man worth a hundred millions who finds himself suddenly penniless and fifty million in debt in his old age. [5]
The news was worth a good deal, for instance, to Mr. Peter Pardriff (brother of Paul, of Ripton), who refrained, with praiseworthy self-control, from publishing it in the State Tribune, although the temptation to do so must have been great. [9]
Their heads are worth a good deal to the Khedive, he thinks. [11]
This store ain't worth a cent now. [11]
It was easily worth $75, in the opinion of Messrs. Marcus and Ward of New York. [5]
The furniture is worth $10,000 or $12,000 and must not be jammed into any kind of a place and left unattended to for a year. [5]
It makes the world worth livin' in. [11]
It was tedious work struggling up to a position of influence with bloodless hands; but when a man came with the blood of half a dozen men on his soul, his worth was recognized at once and his acquaintance sought. [5]
It is another work of art in this room that I wish to have, and which has hitherto seemed to you scarcely worth notice. [10]
But a true word, fresh from the lips of a true man, is worth paying for, at the rate of eight dollars a day, or even of fifty dollars a lecture. [6]
Then she said, without changing her position: "If you were, you might be worth something. [9]
The warm confidence with which Mary, the widow of the King of Hungary, who fell in the Turkish war, gazed into Quijada's finely modelled, slightly bronzed countenance proved that she knew how to estimate his worth aright. [10]
I've seen us with pearls on board worth a thousand quid, and not a drop of water nor three square meals in the caboose. [11]
Dressed in molleton, with no adornment save the glow of a perfect health, she seemed at this moment, as on the Ecrehos, the one being on earth worth living and caring for. [11]
He introduced them with a few remarks, he told me, of which the only one he remembered was this: that he had rather write a single line which one among them should think worth remembering than set them all laughing with a string of epigrams. [6]
And if I win the game, will it be worth its cost after all? [5]
His attack on Willis very probably did him good; he needed a little discipline, and though he got it too unsparingly, some cautions came with it which were worth the stripes he had to smart under. [6]
Look them over, will you, and see whether there is anything there worth saving. [6]
After cutting, they will weigh considerably less than a pound, but will be worth four or five times as much as they were before. [5]
I think you will find the bills and my comments on them well worth your consideration from the point of view of advantage to your railroad. [9]
I hope it will come soon, and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. [7]
Then the shares will be worth --how much? [5]
But an attempt will at any rate be worth making. [10]
It was a wildly extravagant farce--just the sort of thing that now and then Mark Twain plunged into with an enthusiasm that had to work itself out and die a natural death, or mellow into something worth while. [5]

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