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

DICKENS, as soon as he saw me, stopped writing, wiped his pen, ran his fingers through his hair, took out his watch and wound it up, brushed his coat and put it on (not forgetting to place a rose in the button-hole), and then, waving his hands very gracefully (he wore high-priced studs and a pair of elaborately built sleeve-buttons), addressed me as follows: Mr. DICKENS (with tender embrace) SARSFIELD!!!!

The bread was as fine as any Bandy-legs had ever eaten in his own home, where a high-priced cook held sway over the kitchen.

The street was deserted and he gently pressed down the throttle; he had hired a dependable, high-priced car, and the motor sang softly.

Tickets were high-priced to insure the exclusion of the vulgar.

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.

As Mrs. Judge Robinson herself possessed new and high-priced furniture, including a gold-and-onyx stand to occupy the bay window and uphold the Rogers group, "Going for the Parson," as well as two fragile gilt chairs, which considerate guests would not sit in but leave exposed to view, and a complete new set of black walnut, the effect that daywhich included a grand smell of varnishwas nothing less than sumptuous.

Then what would happen to all the high-priced opera singers?"

He remembered seeing this youth at breakfast, and thoughtfully reflected that the boy's appearance was not such as might be expected from the guest of a fashionable and high-priced hotel.

The higher classes and well-to-do farmers show much consideration for high-priced well-conditioned animals, but when they get old or unwell, and demand redoubled care and attention, they are too often neglected, till, from sheer want of ordinary care, they rot and die.

"And, Senator, I would like to ask why so many high-priced constitutional lawyers who enter Congress spend so much time in placing the Constitution of the United States between themselves and their duty, sir, between the people and their Government, sir, between the nation and its destiny?

Even now in many factories high-priced experts are secured whose duty it is to teach the workmen how to eliminate all unnecessary movements in their work and how to combine the right movements necessary to accomplish each task in the best way and in the quickest time.

And lawyers who understand that are high-priced.

The pride and chivalry of Warwickshire, mounted on their high-priced Flanders mares, their Galway nags, and their splendid Barbaries, had been hopelessly thrown out of the chase; and besides the huntsman, on his plain-bred little English horse, the only remnant of the field was our fr

From this period on, we have enough data to observe a social "law ": as the capital was the largest consumer, especially of high-priced products such as vegetables which could not be transported over long distances, the gentry always tried to control the land around the capital.

Farmers in the north could in many places grow cotton in summer and wheat in winter, and cotton was a high-priced product.

He had the most high-priced chef in the world, with six chefs under him, two of whom made a specialty of American dishes.

Then, again, it is no easy matter to put on a smiling and indifferent countenance, whenever a friend, accustomed to some latitude of motion, runs, as is often the case, his devastating chair against a high-priced work of art, or overturns a table laden with an "infinite thing" in costly bijouterie.

That comes from being a high-priced society physician.

"And Asia now and Afric are explor'd, For high-priced dainties, and citron board.

"And Asia now and Afric are explored For high-priced dainties and the citron board.

There were those that displayed their aristocratic origin by the fine line of the prow, the slenderness of the smokestacks and the still white color of their upper decks: they were like the high-priced steeds that war had transformed into simple beasts of battle.

"It now remains to take possession of all that high-priced merchandise," said Harris.

Said he still couldn't understand just how it happened, because he had figured it out by logarithms and trigonometry and differential calculus and a lot of other high-priced studies that he'd taken away from Harvard, and that it was a cinch on paper.

Again, all laundresses, mistresses of dairy-farms, head nurses, (I speak of the good old sort onlywomen who unite a good deal of hard manual labour with the head-work necessary for arranging the day's business, so that none of it shall tread upon the heels of something else,) set great value, I have observed, upon having a high-priced tea.