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" The costliest kind of meat, the finest flour, and very highest priced butter were demanded, and many scorned the less expensive meats and groceries such as well-to-do and sensible people were in the habit of buying.

And worst of all for the pecuniary economy, or lack of economy, the wasted protein and fats were mostly from the meats which supply them in the costliest form.

-All the dollarbills her husband gave her were spent in the stores on wondrous gowns and costliest frillies.

But he, the young chief of the O'Bergan's, could ill brook to be outdone in generous deeds but gave therefor with gracious gesture a testoon of costliest bronze.

The NYT reports that UPS is losing between $30-$50 million a day, and the LAT says the dispute "is on its way to becoming the biggest and costliest strike in a generation.

One of the costliest made-for-TV movies--a telling of the King Arthur legend from the wizard's perspective--is judged one of the best.

The lawsuits, modeled on those successfully brought by several state governments in recent years, constitute, in the words of the LAT , a "major new assault" in what is already history's costliest collection of cases.

Bass had been in the respectable lower middle class of the preference rankings, so its disappointing Val-u-meter showing mainly reflects the fact that it was the only beer not on "sale" and therefore by far the costliest entry in the experiment.

The Times says that with his State of the Union and now this budget, Clinton has moved into a policy vacuum created by a year of scandal and the Republicans' failure during that time to offer their own coherent response to the long-term problems of the nation's costliest domestic programs.

Disparity in Salaries Far Greater Now By Thomas Adcock New York Law Journal March 8, 2002 It was hardly the most enlightened of times, not with the "conflict in Indochina" rapidly becoming America's costliest and most divisive war.

According to what German prisoners said, these attacks were among the costliest they had engaged in during the entire campaign.

The side of the castle that looked on the gardens was all marble and gold; a banquet awaited them beside a water on a shady lawn, consisting of the exquisitest viands on the costliest plate; and a hundred beautiful maidens attended them while they feasted.

Steeped in the rarest wine and the costliest odorous, the remains were placed in a silver urn, which was solemnly stored in one of the neighboring sepulchres beside the road; and they placed within it the vial full of tears, and the small coin which poetry still consecrated to the grim boatman.

The buoyant air of Campania weighed heavily upon his breast; he longed to hurry from a scene where danger might not sleep eternally with the dead; and, having Ione now in his possession, he secretly resolved, as soon as he had witnessed the last agony of his rival, to transport his wealth-and her, the costliest treasure of all, to some distant shore. 'Yes,' said he, striding to and fro his solitary chamber-'yes, the law that gave me the person of my ward gives me the possession of my bride.

George, in the said castle, be set forth and adorned with its richest furniture; that the high altar be hung with arras representing the patron saint of the order on horseback, and garnished with the costliest images and ornaments in gold and silver; that the pulpit be covered with crimson damask, inwrought with flowers-de-luces of gold, portcullises, and roses; that the royal stall be canopied with a rich cloth of state, with a haut-pas beneath it of a foot high; that the stalls of the knights companions be decked with cloth of tissue, with their scutcheons set at the back; and that all be ready at the hour of tierce-hora tertia vespertina, as appointed by his majesty's own statute-at which time the eve of the feast shall be held to commence." "Take breath, captain," laughed the earl. "I have no need," replied Bouchier. "Furthermore, I delivered your lordship's warrant from the lord chamberlain to the usher of the black rod, to make ready and furnish Saint George's Hall, both for the supper to-morrow and the grand feast on the following day; and I enjoined the dean and canons of the college, the alms-knights, and all the other officers of the order, to be in readiness for the occasion.

The aggregate return from the land has immensely increased; but the cost of the costliest portion of the produce, which is that which determines the price of the whole, remains pretty nearly as it was.

Hackney charioteers sat on their boxes warped and whitened; whilst those strange amalgams of past and _never-to-come_ fashions--the clerks of London--hurried about with the horrid consciousness of exposing their costliest garments to the "pelting of the pitiless storm." Evening stole on.

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