...But if diplomatists never know anything more than they had succeeded in finding out in this instance, they appear to me to be somewhat expensive luxuries... 
Anthony Hope 「The Prisoner of Zenda」
... "Must be an expensive kinder kid to home...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
...Dropping the body of the girl to the ground the bull turned to battleanew for possession of his expensive prize; but this time he looked foran easy conquest...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
...“The superstition is that on anyman who kills a leopard will fall a curse or evil disease, curable onlyby ruinously expensive process of three weeks’ duration underthe direction of Ukuku...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...Living in the native style is cheap; but cooks are hardly procurable, and a decent table is more expensive than in an English country town...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
..."It would be too expensive," I said...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
...I may have occasion to speak hereafter of the expensive and magnificent bridge at Carthage, which was the wonder and admiration of the times...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...The sportsmen of India once thought,—for about a year and a day,—that it was permissible to kill troublesome and expensive tigers by poison...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...To go a little further into the matter, there are nogamekeepers because the landowners cannot affordthe expensive luxury of hand-reared pheasants...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
...The genuine Newhouse is of course the best long spring trap made, but a little more expensive, and we find that the H...
Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock 「Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper」
...Sea-otter fur is about as expensive as any, and some 48,000skins are used yearly...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
... It is truly grievous in those which are privileged to possess themselves of the works of their countrymen, however expensive, at free cost, and thus to inflict a ruinous fine on authors...
William Swainson 「Zoological Illustrations, Volume I」
...Good hounds are too expensive to monkey with that way...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Wolf and Coyote Trapping」
...One of the most satisfactory foods is bread and milk, butit is considered too expensive by some people...
A. R. Harding 「Fur Farming」
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