1072 examples of not worth in sentences

The estate is not worth an eighth of what he valued it at.

But life is not worth an unkindness or injustice.

But either Obed did not have the ready cash to offer a bribe, or else he deemed it not worth while, after the fellow had shown such a stubborn disposition; for presently he gave a sigh, and went back to return the photograph to the little desk, once doubtless Mr. Coombs' property.

The Pioneers are not worth much.

The fancies of some girls of that age are not worth attending to.

It was not worth dying for, as it was good for nothing to live by.

so few these things, and they so patched and worn, that altogether they are not worth ten shillings of anybody's money.

'I have tried her, and found her not worth the winning,' he said.

But what matters the topic of their conversations, all they could say was not worth the joyous note which sang at the bottom of their hearts.

Your cares are not worth while; "The trouble which gives you anguish, The woes o'er which you weep, Will all be soon forgotten In my long, dreamless sleep.

" Calamity regarded him, uncertain whether or not to fight out the point, but apparently decided that the effort was not worth while.

" Mr. Carter (Oct. 28th) says: "G. C. was at my room, and spoke of the numbers with the utmost contempt, and thought they were not worth noticing.

Then the foreigners purchased ream after ream of certificates to control Erie, and to-day their stock is declared not worth a row of pins, owing to the piles of money swallowed by the afflictive suits on the stamped certificates.

On this point I was a little earnest, since the pearls were not worth the sum Grace had mentioned to me; and I felt persuaded Lucy would not wish me to remain her debtor.

Says Mr. Sturge, in laying these letters before the public, "it should be clearly understood that the fee simple of all negro houses in Jamaica is not worth £10 each on an average, and that their provision grounds have been brought into cultivation by the negroes themselves in their own time.

" The Onondaga spoke in a light tone with a whimsical inflection, but Robert saw that he was intensely in earnest, and that it was not worth while for him to say more.

A great, large, noisy, tumultuous, promiscuous, crowding, crushing, perfumed, feathered, flowered, painted, gabbling, sneering, idle, gossiping, rest-breaking, horse-killing, panel-breaking, supper-scrambling evening-party is much better imagined than described, for the description is not worth the time of writing or reading it.

'It is not worth the pain,' she said, with conviction.

As for the people who live there now, they're certainly not worth whilethe same pretentious ignoramuses that used to live there, except they no longer have fangs.

Webster's well-known complaints of Murray's unfairness, had a far better cause than requital; for there was no generosity in ascribing them to peevishness, though the passages in question were not worth copying.

One man with an ugly bulge in his side- pocketyou have seen at Drury Lane how quickly the revolver comes out?suggested that the whole collection was not worth an old railway ticket because I had failed to comply with the latest regulation regarding a photograph on the permis de séjour...

Caragol had forgotten his name as not worth while.

But it harmonized finely with the Greek idealthe notion that patriotism is even a woman's first duty, and her life not worth living except in subservience to her husband.

On another occasion he said that "to a blind man life was not worth living.

I declined the task, but not from the feeling that the task was not worth doing.

1072 examples of  not worth  in sentences