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I don't say it can always be worked as cheap as this; but it's cheaper than war every time." "I wonder," said Gorman, "if it would work out on a large scale. Take the case of the Emperor now." "There are difficulties," said Donovan. "I don't deny that there are difficulties. It isn't always easy to get hold of the right man to pay, and it's no use paying the wrong one.
They have never conquered the country. It is cheaper in the proportion of 100 to 220 to send goods to Tabriz by Trebizond than by the Persian Gulf. The Imaum of Muscat carries on a large trade in opium between the Red Sea and China. He carries British manufactures to the Indus, and trades extensively with Cochin China, where sugar is half the price it is in India.
"It is hard for a man of your constitution to be shut up day after day as you are here. A little bear-fight now and then would do you almost as much good as an extra bottle of brandy, besides being cheaper." "Yes." Dumnoff yawned, displaying all his ferocious white teeth to the assembled company. "That is true and then, those green cloth policemen look so funny when one upsets them.
In spite of all the cunning and ingenuity of the German steward, who would try to tempt him into purchases by making his original estimate always far larger than really required, and then representing to Vronsky that he might get the thing cheaper, and so make a profit, Vronsky did not give in.
He had learned his lessons from the forest and its creatures, and on this night nothing was cheaper to him than time. It was another proof of natural power and of the effect of long training that he did not move at all for a quarter of an hour.
Let me give you a case in point it touches on our present discussion. I have heard often enough the cheaper forms of prostitution decorously alluded to; but when did I ever hear dealt with, either for approval or reprobation, the established practice among the unmarried youth of our aristocracy of keeping mistresses?" "I think, sir, that you must have been often inattentive.
"The first thing to know in politics is when to come into the game and when to keep out. Personally, I can't make my firm believe that it is cheaper to buy the other fellows' men after they are elected than it is to try to elect our own, and have them raise the ante on us, but they'll come to it after a while.
Not only that, but it may be asserted with but small risk of contradiction that the aesthetic value of a detected counterfeit in dress declines somewhat in the same proportion as the counterfeit is cheaper than its original. It loses caste aesthetically because it falls to a lower pecuniary grade.
Then Ranjoor Singh began to pay attention to the German's dress, pulling off his expensive turban and replacing that and his clothes with cheaper, dirtier ones. "Why?" asked the German. "I will show you why," said Ranjoor Singh. Then they sat back, each against a side of the cart, squatting native style. "This regiment that I will show you is mine," said Ranjoor Singh.
If I'd gone you'd have had to." "Yes." "It would even come cheaper," he said, "if I stayed. I can prove it." He produced his pocket sketch-book. The leaves were scribbled over with sums, sums desperately begun and left unfinished, sums that were not quite sure of themselves, sums scratched out and begun again. He crossed them all out and started on a fresh page. "Premium, two hundred.
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