I ain't a squab with a pair of high-priced ankles.

" "That they are, Mrs. Montrose!" said Goldstein, the manager, a lean little man, earnestly endorsing the statement; "and that makes them the highest priced stars in all our fourteen companies of players.

Its flesh is inferior to that of the sole, and, as it is a low-priced fish, it is generally bought by the poor.

And when all is said and done most of the devices invented by his fertile little brain to further the interests of his clients were no more worthy of condemnation than those put forward by far higher-priced and much more celebrated attorneys.

The cow seems reasonably priced, for a Jersey.

This superfine leaf reaches Cabul from China through Thibet, always maintaining its price; but it is almost impossible to procure it unadulterated, as it is generally mixed by the merchants with the lesser priced kind.

Failure to use even the lowest-priced paper involved a fine of $50.

[Illustration: Fig. 170.A Compound Microscope] For elementary class work a moderate-priced, but well-made and strong, instrument should be provided.

It insinuated, ma chère, that "things are not what they seem"at any rate things in the bill of fare at the moderately-priced eating-house.

I had also taken the precaution to pack up a box or two of balls, but I found my labour all in vain, as "Haskells" and "Kemshall-Arlingtons" were supplied by the club at precisely the same price as in Englandviz., 1 r. 8 an., or two shillings.

A ruinous-priced, de luxe orchestra had been brought down from the city.

Forestallingthe buying of victuals or other merchandise on their way to a market or port, or contracting to buy the same before they arrive at such market or city, or making any motion for the enhancing of the price thereof, or to prevent the supply, that is, to induce any person coming to the market, etc., to stay away.

how anxiously and conscientiously the prices, differing only by a few kreutzers, were considered.

One that I visited, a glass show-room containing chandeliers priced upwards of a thousand dollars, and all varieties of fancy-wares of every description, had large mirrors at the ends of the room, covering the entire walls, and producing the grandest effect conceivable.

The extra expense we'll charge to experience accountexperience is an awfully high-priced commodity, you knowand next month, while we won't exactly scrimp ourselves, we'll keep our eye on the accounts and watch them as they progress.

how anxiously and conscientiously the prices, differing only by a few kreutzers, were considered.

Prices, however, do not vary from year to year, save when, on rare occasions, an adverse season or a special accident affects the supply and consequently the price of any natural productchoice fruit, skins, silver, for instanceobtained only from some peculiarly favoured locality.

"I thought they might be fancy-priced, sure-ly, but that's awful!" "Ten dollars, cash price, for the pants," proceeded Walker, "and two hundred for that exact amount in gold stitched up in the waistband of em.