1 Except for that small expenditure in the decoration of her infant, Hester bestowed all her superfluous means in charity, on wretches less miserable than herself, and who not unfrequently insulted the hand that fed them.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE 2 For myself, I found that I was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronize Herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before I quite knew that I had opened my lips.
3 Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO... 4 Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO... 5 Only during the first days of his stay in Moscow Levin had been struck by the expenditure, strange to one living in the country, unproductive but inevitable, that was expected of him on every side.
6 Even the consideration that with such an expenditure he could not go on living for a year without debt, that even had no force.
7 Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated their expenditure, which was very modest.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD 8 Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in useless expenditure of them.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE 9 He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 10 But her will-power seemed to have spent itself in a last great effort, and she was lost in the blank reaction which follows on an unwonted expenditure of energy.
11 There was a lavish expenditure of bread and cold meats, coffee, and pickles and cheese.
12 I searched, ransacked, counted, calculated a thousand and a thousand times the income and expenditure of the family for three hundred years.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 13 Indeed, seeing that his expenditure was only one-fourth of his income, he might have been called a prosperous man.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 14 It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 15 One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST