Our guide informed me that in many cases tanks were covered with the crystal employed for doors and windows; but in the-pure air of these hills such a precaution was thought unnecessary, as it would have been exceedingly costly.

From many causes government has, in modern times, grown increasingly costly. § 3.

The small traveling bag she had carried with her bore neither initial nor geographical designation, and contained nothing which gave any clew as to its owner's identity save that she was presumably a person of wealth, for her possessions were exquisite and obviously costly.

Terribly costly editions these are, and in a type utterly hideous; but while nations refuse to see the fact in a more agreeable presentation, it may probably feel compelled to go into this ugly, but indubitable shape.

Men read newspapers for news, and, since the collection of news is enormously costly, nine-tenths of the electorate read between them a small number of established papers advocating broad party principles.

As an illustration of the use of this system of pattern-making, I have here two castings of my own, from patterns which, under the ordinary engineer's system, would be excessively costly and difficult to make as well as these are made.

Back of her were the children's dresses, fairy-like, simple with an extravagantly costly simplicity.

They seem vulnerable from the air above and the deep below, vulnerable in a shallow channel and in a fog (and the North Sea is both foggy and shallow), and immensely costly.

My disposition is not very gay, and I am too proud, too honest, andtoo costly to become a plaything.

We know that cowardice costs more than courage, but it is not so tragically costly as blind foolhardiness.

There are several factors which have been influential in bringing about this state of affairsone is, the uncertainty of employment, even after a long and comparatively costly training.

The residue would be confined to their own or the neighboring harbors, would be smaller, less furnished for accommodation, and consequently less costly.

But in England, during the reign of the Corn Law, the food which the people put into their mouths was the article mainly taxed, and made cruelly costly by the working of protection.