The adjacent heights were so formed and disposed, that, with little, expence of military architecture, they might have been rendered almost unassailable.
An edifice, for the School of Mines, which was built at an expence of more than £.
The treading on the grass and pasture, which diminishes its value, is prevented; the expence of division-fences is avoided, and the time and trouble of driving them about is all saved.
The new improvement in soft soap is, if properly used, a saving of nearly half in quantity; and though something dearer than the hard, it reduces the expence of washing considerably.
Why was I not permitted, even at the expenceof my blood, to ransom so many thousand souls, who fell unhappy victims to avarice or lust?
I know it all; that the young man's marrying her, was a patched-up business, at the expence of your father and uncles.
Our habits of expence make us too dependant, and there are not many in my rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to money.
Where there is fortune to make the expence of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil.
If I had no wit but what I must shew at the expence of my virtue or my modesty, I had as lieve be as stupid as * * * at the Tea Warehouse.
From these data his mathematical head will easily calculate the time and expence necessary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory.
The answer of the proprietaries to the representation of the assembly concerning the expence of Indian affairs.
This looks as if he conceived the war had been carried on at the sole expence of Great Britain, and the colonies only reaped the benefit, without hitherto sharing the burthen, and were therefore now indebted to Britain on that account.
A security that the British nation shall not be obliged, on every new war, to repeat the immense expence occasioned by this, to defend its possessions in America.
But will not this increase of expence be a means of lessening the number of law-suits?
A provision demanded for the expence of an Indian treaty.
A second objection wherewith they flatter themselves, is, that the great expence of time in preparing Medicines will keep Physicians from this course.
Can they furnish you with Money sufficient to defray the Expence of a Civil War?
Are they not subsisted at the expenceof the Republic?
Labour would beguile the Hours of tedious Captivity and even the Nation at whose expence they are subsisted would be benefited by their exertions.
But this is their own fault entirely and it cannot be expected that if a Prisoner be pleased to throw away his food by vice, that Government must be at the expence of supplying him again.
For the Citizen above all other Men has Opportunities of arriving at that highest Fruit of Wealth, to be liberal without the least Expence of a Man's own Fortune.
I know very well the Value which every Man sets upon his Reputation, and how painful it is to be exposed to the Mirth and Derision of the Publick, and should therefore scorn to divert my Reader, at the Expence of any private Man.
This is their Residence all the Year round; and as they are never allow'd to appear, she prudently thinks it needless to be at any Expence in Apparel or Learning.
The Secretary presently sent down a Special Messenger, who brought up the Traitor to Court, and provided him at the Kings Expence with proper Accommodations on the Road.
My Affairs are such, that your Decision will be a Favour to me, if it be only to save the unnecessary Expence of wearing out my Hat so fast as I do at present.
This is a Poetry which would be understood with much less Capacity, and less Expence of Time, than what is taught by Writings; but the Use of it is generally perverted, and that admirable Skill prostituted to the basest and most unworthy Ends.
It still however merits notice, as containing specimens of all the plants recognized in the Materia Medica, and with that view is maintained, at a heavy expence to the company, for the use of medical students.
In travelling this watery flat, I perceived that it had a visible declivity, and might without much expence or difficulty be drained.
I saw no reason for imputing their paucity to the present professors; nor can the expence of an academical education be very reasonably objected.
The expenceof living is here, according to the information that I could obtain, somewhat more than at St. Andrews.
But difficulty and expence are relative terms, which have different meanings in different places.
The expence was two shillings and sixpence a head.
We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence.
The Man who is resolv'd to serve a Party at the expence of Truth, should have the best of Memories; the want of which has render'd the Court Writers oftentimes inconsistent with themselves and with each other.
Straight fell to forage the rich fields, and thence Enforce both wives and infants, with th’ expence Of both their bloods.
But the Women of the Town are of another mind: For by this means a Lady may, with the Expence of a few Coquet Glances, lead twenty Fools about in a String, for two or three Years together.
Be content, we haue seene enough, and take no care of expence past: I will set you foorth royally the next Spring, if God send vs safe home.
Tis as certain if we be Frugal and Industrious, we must be easy and happy, as that we must be wretched and miserable, if we continue our Love to Expence and our hatred to Labour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
