There was a third vessel, called a transport, for the conveyance of their baggage, which consisted mainly of the packages of rich and costly presents which Darius had prepared.
When the vessels were ready, and the costly cargo was on board, the company of travelers embarked, and the little fleet put to sea.
He wanted a supply of valuable and costly female apparel, and the readiest mode of obtaining it was to bring together an assembly of females dressed for a public occasion, and then disrobe them.
The king then ordered a variety of costly articles to be provided and given to Democedes, to be taken with him and presented to his friends in Greece and Italy.
He accordingly brought her forth, provided her with the most costly and splendid dresses, loaded her with presents, ordered a large retinue to attend her, and sent her forth to Persia.
The ring was made with very costly jewels set in gold, and was much celebrated both for its exquisite workmanship and also for its intrinsic value.
But not to dwell on this conversation, let us suppose ourselves in the rooms now glittering with lights, and gay with every costly luxury of wealth and taste.
Here Mary, with the abandon which marks her earnest and poetic nature, breaks a costly vase of balm and sheds the perfume on the head of her Lord.
She buys the most rare, the most costly of perfumes, breaks the vase, and sheds it upon his head.
The choice saloon was hung with rose-coloured silk, which diffused a delicate tint over the inlaid and costly cabinets.
I could only gaze in silent astonishment, and yet it seemed to me as if all this were a matter of course, and I, if only permitted to do so, could use thesecostly articles as carelessly as if born in such a sphere.
Yet the great establishment is still continued, with all its gorgeous display of plate-glass windows, its polished counters, its wealth of costly goods, and its long array of tortured saleswomen.
They sat by a table well covered with such costly rarities, as could only have been procured by much forecast, and prepared by the exquisite Mons.
It was full three hours after their departure, that Chiffinch lounged into the room in which they had supped, in a brocade nightgown, and green velvet cap, turned up with the most costly Brussels lace.
Alas, for the captive princess, whose nod was to command a vassal so costly as your Grace!
It was a costly trinket, in a case inlaid with pink roses, in mother of pearl, and she was very proud of it.
My gift was a pretty young Swiss matron in holiday attire, really more picturesque, and quite as costly as Georgia's, but lacking that daintiness which made the lady-doll untouchable.
Four years of sunshine and storm have fallen upon Maggie's grave, where now a costly marble stands, while the handsome iron fence and the well-kept ground within show that some hand of love is often busy there.
Then she raised her head, and her face, seen through the folds of her costly veil, looked haggard and ghastly, as if a fierce storm of passion had swept over her.
And so the love she withheld from him was given the child who now lay motionless and white as the to the costly linen on which his golden curls were streaming.
But now that it's all over, I may find the amusement a costly one.
I need not tell you it's a costly amusement, so far as expense goes.
He catered for the most costly of all publics, and who will insist on listening to the sweetest voices and looking at the prettiest legs in Europe.
Eighty pounds a year is a very attractive bribe, but it may require too costly a sacrifice to win it.
Yet there were very few who made any attempt at agriculture, and the costly ploughs and implements that had been imported lay rusting on the beach.
Wills, an accomplished young astronomer, was sent to take charge of the costly instruments and make all the scientific observations.
The costly Government farms were, one after another, broken up, and the convicts assigned to the squatters.
Instead of employing the poorer labourers oncostly and unnecessary public works, he persuaded them to take employment in the country with the farmers and squatters, who were rapidly opening up the interior parts of the colony.
Then followed naturally an era of really delusive prosperity, while the expenditure of this capital in substituting the new lamps of costly railroads for the magical old lamps of stern-wheel steamboats was going on.
A vociferous outcry was of course heard; the courts were appealed to; and the result of what promises to be a long and costlylitigation remains to be seen.
Evidently he took in the whole situation at a glance.
I have brought besides costlyearrings of Roman ladies, discovered in the villa of Annius Mucius Papilinus in Pompeii.
The dishes were of solid silver, the cloth and napkins of the finest linen, the wines the mostcostly and exquisite.
But they were made in Europe and are the most costly I could get in Manila!
When a courtier presumed to ask him what he was looking at, he said, 'I am searching for those costly walls of Panama.
Costly hangings, partly unnailed, hung from the cornices, and streaming over step-ladders, trailed on the dusty floors.
True, such costly amusements have been rare since the days of the 'Cyranides' and the 'Seven Seals' of Hermes Trismegistus.
When he returned he avoided me, and has never yet been inside of the costly church which his taste and his money constructed.
It was composed of an oval jacinth, with a splendid scarlet fire leaping out as the light shone on it, and the diamonds that clustered around it were very costly and brilliant.
His dress was costlybut negligent, and the red stain on his jacket told that his hunt had not been fruitless.
The facts forbid that your pen-feathered saint should decamp with some of my costly travel-scrapings!
As she crossed the room tears fell on the costly trifles, and finally she approached the beautiful miniature temple and stooped to look at the fastening.
In an exquisite ivory casket, containing a splendid set of diamonds, and the costlybetrothal ring, bearing the initials, Edna found a sheet of paper around which the blazing necklace was twisted.
How little a barbarous people are in a condition to make use of very costly material as money, is proved by the account which Tacitus gives of the ancient Germans, who preferred silver to gold in trade.
Adam Smith, on the other hand, claims that gold and silver, because they are costly superfluities are uniformly paid most dearly for, in the richest countries.
We, however, call a commodity costly whose price, compared with that of other similar commodities, is high.
Seyd calls bank notes more costly than metallic money, because the former in England require an outlay for administration of 1-½ per cent.
Adam Smith calls attention to the analogous case in which a manufacturer replaces a costly machine by a cheap one, sells the former and employs the difference between the old one and the new in enlarging his business.
In national economies whose commerce is a growing one, the same advantage finds a negative expression in this, that they are not compelled to satisfy the increasing demand for money by procuring costly metals.
Besides, only rich nations are able to possess the costly metals in a quantity absolutely great.
The words costly and dear, as contradistinguished from common and cheap, both indicate a high price.
And you must recollect that high farming requires an increased supply of labor, and hired help is a luxury almost as costly as artificial fertilizers.
Nitrogen, or rather nitric acid, is the most costly ingredient in plant food, and unfortunately it is very easily washed out of the soil and lost.
In parts of South America, where land costs nothing, cattle can be kept for their bones, tallow, and hides, but where food is costly we must make better use of it.
Manure is a costly and valuable article, and we want to convert it into plants, with as little delay as possible, which will, directly or indirectly, bring in some money.
Funeral obsequies are as costly here as in America; but everything is here regulated and fixed by custom.
Shortly after the death, there is a short service in the courtyard of the house, which, with the entrance, is hung in costly mourning, if the deceased was rich.
The space within is planted with flowers, and laid out for the burial of the people; the arcades are devoted to the occupation of those who can afford costly tombs.
But the Goth had not lain in it long before Arianism went out of fashion quite, and the zealous Roman Catholics despoiled his costly sleeping-place, and scattered his ashes abroad.
After the development of the Virginia coal mines, our furnaces were altered to use coal, which proved to be more convenient and less costly than wood.
Lead is an important and costly ingredient of flint-glass, used as a protoxide, either as litharge or red lead, and should be perfectly pure, for the presence of any other substance or metal will be shown in the color of the glass.
All these operations, however, were evidently on a very limited scale, their views being mainly directed to the production of small but costly articles.
Of course, I still admire beautiful, costly things, but I would not give him in exchange for a millionaire.
This has been clearly demonstrated in many places where costly churches have been built.
A society in this city have been struggling along for some years, in all the ways mentioned above, to raise money to build a costly church.
A justified soul has light in regard to costly churches, and the modern mode of selling them to the highest bidder, and running them according to modern expediency.
He intends that his remains shall be laid to rest at Woodlawn, in a mausoleum more pretentious and more costly and of greater proportions than any yet built.
He has erected on Central avenue, in Woodhaven cemetery a costly and imposing structure.
On passing to it we were shewn the costly mansion of its late proprietor, who has lately retired on a large property acquired by the sale of native born Americans.
