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Expensiveness Lais charged Demosthenes 10,000 drachmas for night in bed. [Gk. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 328] price David paid to marry Saul’s daughter. [O. T.: I Samuel 18:25–27] Lydgate’s income did not meet her spendthrift habits. [Br. Lit.: Middlemarch, Magill I, 588–591] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They are very different: one of them all elegance, all expensiveness, with an air of high fashion, from New York; the other a plain, pure, clear-eyed, straight-waisted, straight-stepping maiden from the heart of New England. His expensiveness is acknowledged even by himself, and his whole conduct declares that self-denial is a word hardly understood by him. It was horrible to haggle on such a matter, and finally Philip consented to an expensiveness which he could ill afford. |
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