114 examples of more expensive in sentences

The things are more expensive of course, but I think it is right to give what help one can to the people of the country.

With such reflections we consoled our pride thenand I appeal to you, whether, as a woman, I met generally with less attention and accommodation, than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house?

Baudot, || De France; and more expensive accommodation at "L'Etablissement Thermal.

As population grew, political campaigns became more expensive.

loved comedy above all other amusements, except one which was both more expensive, and less innocent, and besides, had a very high opinion of Mr. Crowne's abilities.

It may, however, be proper to remark, that the establishment near the capital for shipbuilding and masts, are much more expensive than is generally supposed, as well on account of the difficulties experienced in dragging the trees from the interior of the mountains to the water's edge, as the want of regularity and foresight with which these operations have been usually conducted.

A vice like that is more expensive than the poker habit.

The principal street is called Chowringhee, and it has some fine buildings and really excellent shops, where one can buy quite as pretty things as in London, only, of course, they are of necessity more expensive; it costs a lot to bring them out.

It may be a little more expensive to buy a really first-class racket; but the few extra shillings are well worth while if you mean to take up the game seriously, and to get out of it all the enjoyment you can.

The New York Commercial Advertiser had no objection to the enterprise but felt that there were natural obstacles such as a more expensive conveyance than that to Monrovia, the high price of land in that country, the Catholic religion to which Negroes were not accustomed to conform, and their lack of knowledge of the Spanish language.

While she had travelled with her parents she had been at relatively small expense, and since their return to America Mr. Spragg had sent her allowance regularly; yet almost all the money she had received for the pearls was already gone, and she knew her Paris season would be far more expensive than the quiet weeks on the Riviera.

The apprenticeship is estimated to be more expensive than a system of free labor would be.

Still more expensive were the great canal works.

And again at another stage of his tour: "That slave labour is more expensive than free is an opinion which is certainly gaining ground in the higher parts of Alabama, and is now professed openly by some Northerners who have settled there.

Steel is more expensive but it can always be secured in quantity when needed.

A special feature is the presentation in each number of a variety of the latest and best plans for private residences, city and country, including those of very moderate cost as well as the more expensive.

The argument that men have more expensive tastes to satisfy is too feeble to deserve attention.

We have hitherto said nothing of the more expensive and beautiful embellishments of the book, because the most interesting of them are portraits of celebrated short-horns, working horses, sheep, and pigsa subject of which the author begins to treat only at the commencement of the second volume.

BOYD CO. (Carl F. Hall) Rev. John R. Cox: It is probable that slave labor was more expensive to the white masters than free labor would have been.

This we found to be a small lamp fixed at the top of a kind of wooden framework, thirty feet high, suggested by the superintendent, Mr. LaTrobe; and for a temporary economical affair, until a more expensive light can be afforded, it is certainly a clever contrivance.

These often live at considerable distances, thus making the work more difficult to arrange and the travelling more expensive than in the case of the ordinary medical man.

" Its windows look down upon a harbour, wherein, day by day, vessels of every nation and men of large experience are for ever going and coming; and beyond the harbour, upon leagues of open sea, highway of the vastest traffic in the world: whereas from his own far more expensive house my friend sees only a dirty laurel-bush, a high green fence, and the upper half of a suburban lamp post.

Packing Boxes Special tests on the strength of packing boxes of various woods have been made by the U.S. Forest Service to determine the merits of different kinds of woods as box material with the view of substituting new kinds for the more expensive ones now in use.

This adds to the cost of dress, and makes it altogether a more expensive affair than it used to be.

Is not this more expensive in proportion to the good done, than any heathen mission on record?

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