Expensiveness

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234. Expensiveness

  1. Lais charged Demosthenes 10,000 drachmas for night in bed. [Gk. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 328]
  2. 100 Philistine foreskins price David paid to marry Sauls daughter. [O. T.: I Samuel 18:2527]
  3. Vincy, Rosamond Lydgates income did not meet her spendthrift habits. [Br. Lit.: Middlemarch, Magill I, 588591]

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