Citations:cost


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * It was well you escaped her net; Joseph was hard put to it by her, and he escaped her as you did; but it had like to have cost him his life.
 * Take heed, he is one of the flatterers; remember what it hath cost us once already for our hearkening to such kind of fellows.


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * This cost me a great deal of time and labour, especially to cut the piles in the woods, bring them to the place, and drive them into the earth.
 * It cost me much labour and many days before all these things were brought to perfection; and therefore I must go back to some other things which took up some of my thoughts.
 * This cost me as much thought as a statesman would have bestowed upon a grand point of politics, or a judge upon the life and death of a man.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned — they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
 * "It isn't that," said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. "It isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."