176 Verbs to Use for the Word worth

He knew the worth of Hwúi of Liu-hiá, and could not stand in his presence.

An ounce will buy sixteen dollars' worth of anything in Nome.

Let him alone till he proves the worth of what he is about.

If Germany exports, that is sells eight milliard marks' worth of goods abroad, she pays two milliards to the Reparations Commission.

Kathy was the only one who appreciated Lippo's worth.

Though I have just given nineteen dollars' worth of hair puffs away as sou-sou-venyou say it, I feel like a new born child.

He could well afford to recognize the full worth of every one of his co-laborers.

I don't know a charm at all comparable with that of being swindled in the midst of fine scenery, when the funds and enthusiasm still hold out, and the sense of actually getting the worth of one's money is not yet so blunted by transactions calculated to awaken Thought, as to have lost the power of increasing one's felicity.

To his original legion were added some of the finest and bravest of the Lombard volunteers, who had learned his worth "after the armistice"; while boys from ten to fourteen, who were his pride and delight, formed his "band of hope.

The little girl then went to the nearest post-office and purchased two pounds' worth of War Loan.

A soldier from the barracksyou know this is part of a United States Military Reservationfound gold while digging a well near the beach, and an old miner took out $1,200 worth in twenty days.

All my infancy and youth passed away, and I never once perceived the hidden worth of these lines till I had tumbled down a hill myself, cracked my crown, and was laid up with it a week or more.

People had found oat the worth of the piece, you see.

" "D'you mean to say that that bird ate five shillings' worth of seed in four weeks?" "Well, so Noaks says; he told me he'd kept scores of birds in his time, but he'd 'never seen one so hearty at its grub before.'

"When one thinks that it contains a good hundred crowns' worth of paint, and a million of genius, not to speak of the fair days of my youth, fast growing bald as my hat!

I have sent home more than $4000 worth of oil, and I hope my owner will forgive the accident off Currituck, on account of this run of good luck.

Is it very likely that a woman who'd stolen two hundred and fifty thousand pounds' worth of stuff from an hotel would wire back to its manager, giving her address, for the sake of a shoe-buckle, even one set with diamonds?"

Your generous deed will be recorded; and as millions of Europe's oppressed nations will, even now, raise their thanksgiving to God for this ray of hope, which by this act you have thrown on the dark night of their fate; even so, through all posterity, oppressed men will look to your memory as to a token of God that there is a hope for freedom on earth, since there is a people like you to feel its worth and to support its cause.

The Deutschland carried as cargo nearly a million dollars' worth of dyestuffs, as well as important mail.

One person brought thirty dollars' worth to New Helvetia, gathered there in a short time.

Truehome-learnt natural history will not altogether teach him about these things, because most of them must needs be new: but it will teach him to compare and classify them as he finds them, and so by analogy with things already known to him, to discover their intrinsic worth.

"A paltry hundred thousand? "Nay, without my hatmy helmet!I should be valueless to myself and everybody else; so estimate my worth and you can assay the value of my hat.

" It is a dreadful moment, when we are taught to doubt the worth of those we love; and Eve became pale as death, as she listened to the words of her friend.

The sternest comment that ever can be made against employers as a class, lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

Secondly, is it at all credible that so fragmentary and fortuitous a record as survives in monuments (allowing again their very dubious historical worth) should just happen to coincide with the surviving fragments of our patch-work Manetho, king for king and dynasty for dynasty, as Mr. Laing would have us believe?

176 Verbs to Use for the Word  worth