Expence

Quarrel, and supported the several Pretensions of the Daughters with all that ill-chosen Sort of Expence which is common with

Spectator, June 1, 1711 1711

Their Mothers, as it is usual, engaged in the Quarrel, and supported the several Pretensions of the Daughters with all that ill-chosen Sort of Expence which is common with People of plentiful

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

When Benny Bache asked his grandfather for a gold watch, Franklin responded tartly: "You should remember that I am at a great Expence for your education ... and you should not tease me for things that can be of little or no Service to you."

Founding Fathers Barbara Dafoe Whitehead 2009

Expence to obtain the Favour of one of these Directors.

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

Expence, no Way instructive in the Rudiments of a Country Gentlewoman's

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Expence, no Way instructive in the Rudiments of a Country Gentlewoman's

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

[The Colour-Man is] the apothecary to the Painter; as he buys the simple Colours and compounds some of them: He grinds those as require grinding, and adds that Expence to the prime Cost.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Fruit, are at the Expence of Walls to receive and reverberated the faint Rays of the Sun, and fence against the Northern

A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue 2003

I can live upon a little and teach my Children to do so too as yet, while they have no Habits of Expence: but those Habits once changed, Adieu to all Happiness both for them and me.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 February 1783, letterbook copy 1993

Expence will be considerable, the Trouble to you great and you will probably have to return with me in the Spring.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 September 1783 1993