It is of youth alone that I am concerned to write, for it is a comfort to my soul to know that once in my decorous progress through life I could kick my heels and forget to count the cost; and as youth cries farewell, so I end my story and turn to my accounts.

"'Wait a moment,' said he, curling up his shaky tail, 'the costswho pays the costs?' "'The costs!'

"Four thousand dollars, Mary, will quite cover the first cost of the schooner; that is without including outfit and spare-rigging, of which her master took about twice as much as was necessary.

This led to the formation of a Christian Society, and in 1761 Lady Huntingdon built a chapel, to defray the cost of which she sold her jewels, realising in this way the sum of nearly £700.

The temptation to look at it as a "necessity" may, indeed, be increased by increasing the supposed cost of its refusal; but it is a temptation to wrong-doing to the last.

The opposition in trade has been the means of very materially reducing the cost of supplies and living.

Presumably the Latins were named as those who would have to bear the costs of the plan, for there does not appear to have existed then in Italy other occupied domain land of any extent save that which was enjoyed by them.

We've saved the cost of advertising.

" "You mean you thought you were willing, until you knew the cost?" Shillito rejoined.

Flint, the long-limbed lumberman, from the wilds of Maine, was a conscript who, when government demanded his money or his life, calculated the cost, and decided that the cash would be a dead loss and the claim might be repeated, whereas the conscript would get both pay and plunder out of government, while taking excellent care that government got very little out of him.

There will be economy along the less essential lines to meet the cost.

The Board of Consulting Engineers estimated the cost of the lock type of canal at $139,705,200 and of the sea-level canal at $247,021,000, excluding the cost of sanitation, civil government, the purchase price, and interest on the investment.

In munitions, for instance, private employers were the first to recognize that they had in women-workers a labor force worth the cost of training.

" "Have you considered the cost to these three women if you make their father's name a byword in the city where they were born?" "He should have considered it," was the unmoved reply.

It was an able speech for a young man, and its scornful repudiation of reckoning the costs of war against insult and violated rights had a chivalric ring about it: "Sir, I here enter my solemn protest against a low and calculating avarice entering this hall of legislation.

If to this be added the estimated cost of sanitation and civil government until the completion of the work, and the $50,000,000 purchase price, the total cost to the United States of the lock type of canal will amount to $375,201,000.

There is the effort and the fatigue, the unpleasantness of human labor, to represent real costs.

These succors involved some costs; and the costs were paid by the sale of unarmed men among the pilgrims, and especially of the women and children, who were seized to provide the necessary funds.

After a sumptuous bill of fare, our author compares the great plenty of it to our present notion of a miser's feastsaying, Come there no more; for so meant all that cost; Never hence take me for thy second host.

They say, in effect, "Under the present competitive regime, you have to pay for everything you buy a price which far exceeds the necessary cost to a concern which is managed with ordinary ability.

For one night he took care of him, And when about to leave The inn, he said unto the host, "You shall from me receive All that is needful for your pains, If you of him take care; I will repay you all the cost; Let him your kindness share.

" "Here," continued Mrs. Bloomfield, pointing to another paragraph, "is a positive statement or misstatement, which makes the cost of the 'civil department of the United States Government,' about six times more than it really is.

But ours are not so easily supplied, All that cou'd e'er quit cost, we have already tried.

My parents spared no cost for masters to instruct me; I had a French governess, and also a woman servant whose sole business it was to attend on me.

Come prepared to make restitution of that you have taken, whatever the cost; and to give satisfaction for all those things whereof you are accused.