The cost of manufacturing each musket immediately before the commencement of the term of the present commander was about seventeen dollars and a half.
Some of his sentences cost him four or five nights' study.
It cost every dollar you had in bank," said Dolly, "and before we are through it will cost you twice as much more.
Your publishers told him your book was 'waste paper,' and that he could have every copy in stock for the cost of the plates.
But he soon heard news which made him change his mind, no matter what the cost to his feelings.
A report was also going home from a French inspector who had been sent out to see why the cost of government had been rising by leaps and bounds.
My outfit will cost me a thousand crowns more than the amount I am paid to cover it.
In his dispatch to the minister of War he said: 'I am afraid my promises will cost ten thousand francs; but the keeping of them will attach the Indians more to our side.
But the British could afford this loss much better than the French could afford the cost of the raid.
The inspector found out that many items of cost for supplies to the different posts had a cipher added to them.
This neat little operation cost but few casualties considering the advantages gained, and the completeness of the surprise is illustrated by an incident which occurred early the following morning.
The month at Bullecourt had cost the Battalion 597 casualties in all ranks, and a rest after the prolonged operations was urgently needed.
This, the last fight of the 1/4th Londons, produced nine prisoners and cost in casualties: 2/Lieut.
The painful steps of 1916, which gained perhaps a few hundred yards a week at appalling cost of life, amid the wretchedness of mud and rain, were now victorious strides which had carried our lines forward like an irresistible tide.
How premature these high hopes were the Battalion was to learn to its coston the 7th October.
It had been maintained for three and a half months under conditions of unprecedented difficulty, and at enormous costin personnel.
The shrapnel and machine-gun fire maintained by the Germans during the nightcost a few casualties, amounting to 14 N.
The defence of Wood Post cost 25 casualties in other ranks.
These precautions cost the enemy dearly, and his assaulting columns were met by a deadly rifle and Lewis gun fire from the whole of our line, which completed the work of the artillery.
The abortive operation of the 18th cost the Battalion a good many casualties in N.
This gallant little defence in which C Company put up a really good fight and inflicted considerable loss on the enemy, cost it about 40 per cent.
The Kensingtons then organised in depth, having reached their final objective at the surprisingly small cost of nine other ranks wounded.
The capture of this post, which produced 16 prisoners and 2 guns, cost the lives of 2/Lieut.
The cost was small; my needle and my energy-- Roger.
Some of the crew offered resistance, which cost them their lives.
The princess's joy was the more inexpressible, because the conquest she had made had cost her the lives of two beloved brothers, and given her more trouble and danger than she could have imagined.
They did not realize what this loss of time had cost them, for nearly all of the tickets had been sold, and in contemplating the theatrical receipts, those that should have come from the legitimate business were entirely lost sight of.
It is unnecessary to say that this piece of literary work had cost the author a very great effort.
His rule appears to have been to state just so much of the truth as would leave on the minds of his readers a correct impression, at the least cost of pain to the sensitive folks he was writing about.
If he to-morrow dares in fight appear, His high-placed love perhaps may cost him dear.
And crimes below cost little to forgive: By thee, inhuman, both my parents died; One by thy sword, the other by thy pride.
Marriage is poor folks' pleasure, that cannot go to the cost of variety; but I am out of danger of that with these two, for I love them so equally, I can never make choice between them.
Well, you shall have it, madam: But I cannot higgle; I know you'll say it did not cost above two hundred pieces.
Only God, who sees my heart, knows what suffering our long alienation has cost me.
He left before breakfast the ensuing morning, bearing his secret with him, having given no intimation, by word or look, of the struggle which his resolution cost him.
It cost her a powerful effort to utter these words, and her voice took a metallic tone utterly foreign to it.
Russell, it is useless now to dwell upon our sorrowful past; what suffering our separation has cost me, none but my God can ever know.
A wounded boy started up, twirling one arm, as if in the act of cheering, and then fell back, groaning with pain which the violent effort cost him.
How much would it cost to take her to New Orleans and have that celebrated oculist examine them?
The trip would not cost much; suppose you speak to Russell about it.
But this I say, my curse on the grandson of mine who shall try to seize that fatal crown, whichcost the life of my fairest, my noblest, my wisest, my bravest!
Sweyn spoke without rising: "The good knight forgets that this expedition has cost Denmark already nigh as much as Harold Hardraade's cost Norway.
The stranger tried, according to the chronicler, who probably had it from one of the three by-standers, a blow which has cost many a brave man his life.
My child," replied his mother without hesitation, "women pass them with pains that sometimescost their life.
If you keep sufficient credit to ward off all these disagreeables, you might as well keep your money, for it will cost you no more to keep it.
No cook shall grow rich on my gross and foolish greediness; he shall not poison me with fish which cost its weight in gold, my table shall not be decked with fetid splendour or putrid flesh from far-off lands.
Every one does some good, the wicked as well as the righteous; he makes one happy at the cost of the misery of a hundred, and hence spring all our misfortunes.
Do not trouble about the cost of the journey, that will be provided for you.
But when once everything is shaken, the trunk must be preserved at the cost of the branches.
And that would cost me my career, something I'm not willing to give up.
More to the point," the Count said, "you think it would cost you your team.
And there is no money to buy anything with because Gwenny has had to have a new brace that cost thirty dollars.
When mother takes me to buy a coat, we look at two good ones that will last two winters, but perhaps one has pretty braid or something on it, that makes it cost more.
Pope Agatho played a part very similar to that played by Pope Leo at Chalcedon, but at the cost of seeing his predecessor, Honorius, condemned as a Monothelete.
The Merciful One teaches and warns that works of mercy be performed; because He seeks to save those who at great cost He has redeemed, it is proper that those who after the grace of baptism have become foul can once more be cleansed.
Here the capital expenditure would be so great that the cost would be absolutely prohibitive.
He saw that if only the cost of carriage could be reduced, a most valuable market for coal from his Worsley mines could be opened up in Manchester.
In this way the railway company are seeking both to maintain the efficiency of the canal and to reduce the heavy annual demands made upon them in respect to the general cost of operation and shareholders' dividend.
Alternatively, would the manufacturers run the risk of delaying urgent work by having the raw materials delivered by canal boat in order to effect a small saving on cost of transport?
Even if there were not the question of the prodigious cost that widenings of the Birmingham Canal would involve, there would remain the equally fatal drawback of the elevation of Birmingham and Wolverhampton above sea level.
Therefore one is Solon born; Another, Xerxes; and Melchisidec A third; and he a fourth, whose airy voyage Cost him his son.
They discussed casually the cost of living in the North, the raising of strawberries at Kusiak, and the best way to treat the mosquito nuisance, but neither of them referred to the Macdonald coal claims or to Sheba O'Neill.
It was worth all itcost to feel the warmth of her brave, impulsive trust.
So home and to look over my papers that concern the difference between Mrs. Goldsborough and us; which cost me much pains, but contented me much after it was done.
Thence to the Ringo alehouse, and thither sent for a belt-maker, and bought of him a handsome belt for second mourning, which cost me 24s.
We paid the cost of loading, superintended by Mr. Tillinghast in person, whose financial record shows the exact cost of transportation.
I will slow up and have it seen to, colonel, although it may cost me my official head.
Out of this sum we paid our twenty nurses three dollars a day, for seventy-nine days--their cost of living, and their transportation when needed.
Gradually he saved money, and, uniting his old and new trades, built a fine boat, which cost him twenty-five pounds.
Another and more painful case is that of a poor fellow wrecked off Cape Horn, who, drifting for fourteen days in an open boat, reached shore only to find that he must purchase life at the cost of both nether limbs.
The lieutenant was nearly ruined by it, and is said not to have completely paid the cost of this reparation at the day of his death.
This apparatus would cost L250, but of course it could be made on a smaller scale if required.
How highly they are esteemed in some countries is shown by the fact that some years ago they cost in St. Petersburg a paper rouble, or about a shilling each; in Stockholm, fivepence each.
Experience has proved that what they lose at the start they recover in the course of time, receiving in addition triple or tenfold more business than the cost of the original outlay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
