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• At what cost? (10)
• At what cost? (22)
• Cost of the lot. (17)
• You have taught me at what a cost! (10)
• The cost cannot be great. (10)
• I know how much it has cost you. (10)
• He would cost a pretty penny up there. (8)
• Edward asked how much the opal had cost. (22)
• The estimate of cost is probably too high. (7)
• Perhaps it might cost a whole twenty pounds. (4)
• Could he bear his own happiness at such a cost? (8)
• Possibly cost of surveying lot, but not always. (17)
• I had him for Emily; cost me two hundred guineas. (8)
• I pretended to estimate the probable cost of one. (10)
• The small house cannot stand this additional cost. (17)
• Maintenance cost, such as coal, gas, and electricity. (17)
• I know it cost money, but this is a question of taste. (10)
• Apparently he named the cost of his purchase per dozen. (10)
• It had not once cost her an effort to maintain her balance. (5)
• The effort to repress it must have cost them horrible pain. (10)
• In that case he would be ready to defray the cost of admission. (5)
• Nothing but the cost of the place (to be considered you know!) (10)
• Fun, at any cost, is the one object worth a shot in such a world. (10)
• Emilia musically murmured, and it cost her nothing to smile again. (10)
• The increased cost of white paper and of labor has also had an effect. (16)
• The cost is itemized and the contractor adds a percentage as his share. (17)
• It cost me a struggle to turn aside to Germany from the Italian highroad. (10)
• She had struck on the hope for the detested yoke to be broken at any cost. (10)
• He was a little ashamed afterward of the resolution it had cost him to do so. (9)
• But in his rashness and thirst for renown, Murray had not counted well the cost. (19)
• The only justification for thin walls is the slightly reduced cost of materials. (17)
• This must truly have cost him dear, as any author of fixed habits will understand. (9)
• It is always best to overestimate the cost in the beginning than to underestimate it. (17)
• The pecuniary cost to the show of the privileges it enjoys is entirely in his keeping. (21)
• He was for action at any cost, with all the forces he could gather, and without delays. (10)
• I guarantee a trusty army and navy under a contract, at two-thirds of the present cost. (10)
• So the cost of the building is put into marble halls and idiotic decoration of all kinds. (9)
• Ay, good: but not at such a cost as an extra tax, or compulsory service of our working man. (10)
• At the cost of certain knowledge that the rumour he had been resolved not to believe was true. (8)
• It cost Clementina a good deal of trouble to answer him as she wished and not hurt his feelings. (9)
• Loss of colour, loss of light in her eyes, were the sole signs of what it cost her to maintain it. (10)
• Some are captivated by hands that can wield the rod, which in earlier days they escaped to their cost. (10)
• All these weeks he had kept himself in hand; but to do so had cost him more than he liked to reflect on. (8)
• He offered, however, voluntarily to pay half the expenses of the funeral, stating the limit of the cost. (10)
• Prices in this country are never put up except when some kind of scarcity increases the cost of production. (7)
• And what have we succeeded in doing, that the childish effort to move it should be continued at such a cost? (10)
• It would be interesting to see what was the total cost per year to repaint them and keep the roofs in order. (17)
• Wherever the cost permits, one cannot deny that materials of such durable nature are the proper ones to use. (17)
• At least there was no other way to her love, and that love he could not live without, cost him what it might. (13)
• John Thresher had a laborious mind; it cost him beads on his forehead to mount to these heights of meditation. (10)
• It is said that the State of Alabama has more dogs than school-children, and that they cost more for their keep. (7)
• He made a jest of the trouble it had cost him, even some sleeplessness, and said he felt now like a convalescent. (9)
• This lack of proper-size framing timbers saved the builder money but would cost the buyer a pretty penny some day. (17)
• Still other architects claimed that the cost of construction could only be reduced by standardizing all of the parts. (17)
• When he recovered, he gave a feast that was the talk of all Munich for three weeks and cost him sixty thousand marks. (12)
• One could live a great deal cheaper, undoubtedly, if he could supply himself from other people without any labor or cost. (14)
• She seemed to him merely triumphant, and he could not conceive what it had cost her to nerve herself up to her too easy victory. (9)
• Copper, since the war, has come back into use again as a sheet metal for the small house, for its cost has dropped within reason. (17)
• It came, indeed, so easily from the pen that I had the misgiving which I always have of things which do not cost me great trouble. (9)
• This insures better-class work, but in practically all cases it is more expensive, and no assurance can be had of the final cost. (17)
• I promise you, the stick was not idle; I think every decent step that Modestine took must have cost me at least two emphatic blows. (2)
• It is the old story, that a well-built article is bound to cost more than a poorly built one; but how to know the well-built article! (17)
• My Spanish recitations cost me some time and trouble as yet, for I make the students parse and construe with never-failing strictness. (14)
• Likewise the cost of a house can be reduced by shaping as nearly to a square as possible, and reducing the outside walls to the minimum. (17)
• The cost of the effort was the breaking out of innumerable wounds, old and new; the gain was the display of the miracle that Italy lived. (10)
• But then she saw the pictures, and was so entranced that her smile seemed almost to express a satisfaction at the sacrifices they had cost. (12)
• Yet the necessary capital and the cost of production are so much smaller than ours that their various backers can afford to keep them afloat. (16)
• Many architects conscientiously tried to reduce the cost of construction of the small house by inventing cheaper ways and methods of building. (17)
• The transgression cost seventy-five men their positions, and for the rest of the season other circuses marvelled at our state of grace and piety. (21)
• Characteristically, he felt that it cost her dear to make use of that little primitive device of common loves; the touch awoke within him only chivalry. (8)
• In 1914 this house cost $5,529.00, but at the peak of prices in 1920 this house cost $12,815.00, which was an increase of 131 per cent. (17)
• Sufficient booty was captured to cover the cost of this expedition, and the New Englanders returned flushed with triumph and eager for a more daring blow. (19)
• To reduce the cost of hot-water heating and make it also available for this class of small house, the manufacturers produced another type of water heating-plant. (17)

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