Which preposition to use with costs
Some calls he is bound to obey, at whatever cost of time or strength,illness, certain public duties, and real spiritual needs,but his life must not be at the mercy of cranks, or of idle persons' whims.
'At any cost to me?
In being, Sirbut Sharp here, and I, have been at some cost in finding her out.
Without counting the cost for a moment, they came to the call of the Great Mother, from near and far.
The native boots cost from two to five dollars a pair.
Average cost per quart, 2s.
If our people would only follow the example set them by Colonel Gansevoort, it seemed certain we could hold the fort at no greater cost than that of being hungry during a certain length of time!
I stayed free of cost at Auroville in a room in Bernard's quarters, sharing with him the meals he prepared.
The bread sufficient for four people, carriage thereof, and a trifle for commission (i.e. paper and trouble) cost on an average 2 frs.
You will of course lessen the cost by eliminating every word that can possibly be spared.
There he was gasping for breath, his life depending upon the result of the negotiation, and still he insisted upon the payment of costs as a condition of compromise.
The latter can usually be hired by the day for about Frs. 3.00 from the local sports shop, and cost about Frs. 20.00 to buy.
Mr. Gosse's is expensive, costing between four and five dollars.
I have employed him to watch over the estate of your father, in the absence of the latter, on the principle that one practised in tricks is the best qualified to detect and expose them, and with the certainty that no man will trespass with impunity, so long as the courts continue to tax bills of costs with their present liberality.'
I ventured a guess that the construction of the lock type of canal would approach $300,000,000, and without stopping to consider that the same causes which led to an increase in cost over the original estimates for the lock canal must affect equally the sea-level type, the advocates of the latter argued that the excess of the new estimates was an additional reason why the lock type should be abandoned in favor of the sea-level canal.
Education, scientific education, costs like thunder.
"Then I ordered the men to keep him at all costs within the room.
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But a man is a man wherever he goes, and something precious cannot fail to be gained by one who knows how to abide by a resolution of any kind, and pay the cost without a murmur.
He dismissed the suit with costs against Nagendra, and remarked that this palpable forgery cast discredit on the whole transaction.
And that desert, and that place of derknesse, duren fro this cost unto Paradys terrestre; where that Adam oure foremost fader, and Eve weren putt, that dwelleden there but lytylle while; and that is towards the est, at the begynnynge of the erthe.
We had not ridde fiue English miles, but we were incountred with a great number of the Arabians, who stayed vs, and would not suffer vs to passe till they had somewhat, so it cost vs for all our gard aboue twentie shillings a man betwixt Ioppa and Ierusalem.
Many people think they have a right to a fairly equivalent service at a fairly equivalent cost throughout the United States, and that they have a right to all the advantages of their geographical position.
So Rámdá paid his arrears and costs into Court, to the plaintiff's intense annoyance.