That the field is sufficiently wide will more fully appear when we come to advert to the inconsiderable share of the public
expenses for which it will fall to the lot of the State governments to provide.
Thanks to the influence of his companion, backed by a bank-note (which can be repaid, by the way, out of the fund for the American
expenses), my clerk succeeded is making the fellow speak.
Five dollars per day, in gold, it is believed, will be a fair calculation to make for all traveling
expenses onshore and at the various points where passengers may wish to leave the steamer for days at a time.
I tried to shake her on the question of
expenses. She answered by handing me over her share of the proceeds at Derby and Nottingham -- and there were my
expenses paid, at the rate of nearly two guineas a day.
Pope Julius the Second was assisted in reaching the papacy by a reputation for liberality, yet he did not strive afterwards to keep it up, when he made war on the King of France; and he made many wars without imposing any extraordinary tax on his subjects, for he supplied his additional
expenses out of his long thriftiness.
To appreciate the full magnitude of this stroke, consider these other figures: the annual
expenses of a national government amount to the equivalent of a contribution of three days' average wages of every individual of the population, counting every individual as if he were a man.
One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping
expenses would be lessened.
Show me a woman--and I'll show ye a man not far off wha' has mair
expenses on his back than he ever bairgained for." Arnold's patience would last no longer--he turned to the door.
Yesterday he added that, had he but known, but foreseen, these
expenses, he would never have married.
Meanwhile Dolly and the children had moved into the country, to cut down
expenses as much as possible.
"Your
expenses both in town and country must certainly be considerable; but your income is a large one."
This I decided to sell, in order to get a little money for travelling
expenses. I had a good deal of boyish pride, and I tried to hide, as far as I could, from the other students the fact that I had no money and nowhere to go.