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  • + The salary was so attractive because I didn't have to pay exorbitant malpractice insurance.†   (source)
  • Saeed bought a simple fishing rod, available for a less exorbitant price because its reel was broken and the line had to be spooled out and pulled back in by hand.†   (source)
  • Rather, he supervised the work of a team of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), which allowed him to handle three or four patients at the same time and bill them all at standard, exorbitant rates.†   (source)
  • The inflatable Godzilla was gone (the daily rental for something like that must have been exorbitant), but the neon sign still blazed: UTGARD LANES.†   (source)
  • I knew it was likely that he was paid an exorbitant amount of money for his story and that he was probably worrying about a mountain of debt for his education.†   (source)
  • Even to Papi fifty bucks wasn't exorbitant but he was reluctant to part with it.†   (source)
  • Her own vigorous young frame resisted valiantly; yet the Saturday half-holiday, the Sunday of rest, could scarcely renew her for the exorbitant hours of mechanical toil.†   (source)
  • His solution may not always be pretty—it may involve coercion or exorbitant penalties or the violation of civil liberties—but the original problem, rest assured, will be fixed.†   (source)
  • That's a classic means of gaining leverage over girls: The debts mount with exorbitant interest rates, and when girls can't repay the loans, the trafficker sells them to a brothel.†   (source)
  • Sometime after the dinner, Howard contacted the filly's owner and offered an exorbitant sum for her.†   (source)
  • He would fortify the interior of the island and make it a killing field, hoping the exorbitant casualties would make the Marines falter and perhaps cause the civilians in America to pause in their desire to invade the Japanese mainland.†   (source)
  • His contraband entered the house through the service door and exited through the front door on its way to other destinations, where Jean consumed it in secret revels or sold it at exorbitant prices.†   (source)
  • 'The price,' said Milo, 'was outrageous — positively exorbitant!†   (source)
  • Again and again the tenants would tell me of neighboring landlords who threw their tenants out of their homes for any little thing, or landlords who charged exorbitant rents.†   (source)
  • Mia is the one who bought my guitar for some exorbitant sum, which means that Mia knew it was up for auction.†   (source)
  • Heimagined the rent for their accommodations at the Mel de Valentinois to be exorbitant.†   (source)
  • Once they tossed the exorbitant fee across, the ferrymen used their long poles to position the raft against the dock.†   (source)
  • I may get my exorbitant profit-or Taggart Transcontinental may crash before I collect it.†   (source)
  • However, the salvage claims of $40,000 were exorbitant since most of the manifested cargo had been destroyed or hefted overboard by the muti-neering slaves.†   (source)
  • Beyond the exorbitant pay-and frequently the pardoning of past crimes—the opportunities were unlimited.†   (source)
  • Eugene's trip to Tilghman Brothers, the exorbitant fee they had charged for the expedited service (exactly double their regular fee), Junior's two separate trips to apply the varnish and the final trip he would make Friday morning to screw the eyebolts back in and reattach the ropes on their figure eights and hang the swing from the ceiling: she would have no idea of any of that.†   (source)
  • Why was Baker, a spy, paid an exorbitant amount for his services?†   (source)
  • She'd met him now twice and knew him to be a charming and canny man who made his rather exorbitant living with transportation.†   (source)
  • —which was hardly exorbitant by metropolitan standards in that deflated time, and even for Schrafft's profoundly ordinary fare.†   (source)
  • Piedmont addressed his letter to Sedgwick, following the prescribed rungs of the ladder of command, and asked him to look into an "exorbitant" gas bill and to make recommendations and regulations binding the use of the boat.†   (source)
  • I don't know exactly how much it was, and the price of any gift in the arena was exorbitant.†   (source)
  • No one has had to wonder why a track laborer is using such exorbitant amounts of electricity.†   (source)
  • Rent for the house was an exorbitant $2,700 a year, plus another $2,500 for carriages and horses.†   (source)
  • In this meeting we would discuss the "exorbitant" gas bill.†   (source)
  • If a victor is considered desirable, the president gives them as a reward or allows people to buy them for an exorbitant amount of money.†   (source)
  • She bought bags of flour and rice and nuts and dried fruit, and bottles of oil, and cans of powdered milk and cured meat and fish in brine, all at exorbitant prices, her forearms aching from the strain of carrying them up to her apartment, one load after another.†   (source)
  • The fact that Coros is well known and pays exorbitant bribes to facilitate his smuggling makes him an ideal candidate.†   (source)
  • His exorbitant fees come from my enemies here in Hong Kong and Macao, and up the Deep Bay water routes north into the provinces themselves!†   (source)
  • He stressed that his clients were willing to pay salvage on a refigured value based on the condition of ship and cargo when boarded, but certainly not the exorbitant sum of $40,000.†   (source)
  • When Max met Prusias's challenge and dispatched of his foe in record time, vendors were able to charge exorbitant sums for the privilege of witnessing Bragha Rim in the arena.†   (source)
  • In the hysteria to get things, there were all sorts of confusions: people who had never smoked wound up paying an exorbitant sum for a pack of cigarettes, and those without children found themselves fighting over cans of baby formula.†   (source)
  • As I gave the clerk the passports, I also handed him the exorbitant sum of one hundred fifty dollars in American currency.†   (source)
  • The article had come out as a collection of sentences that gave him exorbitant praise and garbled every thought he had expressed.†   (source)
  • The shock was not so much the exorbitant expense of public life in Europe, but that extravagance was taken as the measure of one's importance.†   (source)
  • Dr. Najafee divided his time between the two countries, coming here to earn exorbitant fees in his private practice, and spending six months of the year in California attending seminars, studying, and appreciating freedom and cleanliness.†   (source)
  • However, to award such exorbitant sums as claimed by the Naval officers would be the equivalent of robbery of my clients, as this voyage is already a total loss for them.†   (source)
  • The man was either a consummate politician or truly benevolent and wise—Adams could not tell which—and though apprehensive that the sums demanded would be exorbitant, he felt there was no time to lose.†   (source)
  • Most of the rural population had long since been reduced to the life of those ages when artificial light was an exorbitant luxury, and a sunset put an end to human activity.†   (source)
  • The office suited him; it contained nothing but the few pieces of furniture he needed, all of them harshly simplified down to their essential purpose, all of them exorbitantly expensive in the quality of materials and the skill of design.†   (source)
  • He drafted reports to Congress, sent off letters to various agents of Congress in France who had been drawing exorbitant bills on the commission, directing them to start providing regular account of their disbursements, and warning that they could be running up debts beyond available funds.†   (source)
  • …of the libido with a heady apprehension of filthy but thoughtfully spent lucre—caused me a troubling mixture of sensations as I sat there: accelerated pulse, marked increase in my hectic flush, sudden salivation and, finally, a spontaneous and exorbitant stiffening against my Hanes Jockey shorts which was to last all evening in whatever position I found myself—seated, standing up, or even walking slightly hobbled among the crowded diners at Gage & Tollner's, the restaurant where I took…†   (source)
  • A bus seemed like the most pragmatic form of transportation, but when I inquired about prices I was continually staggered by exorbitant figures.†   (source)
  • I want you to find a cheder for him and a rabbi who isn't too exorbitant.†   (source)
  • Will Benteen sat on the front steps at Scarlett's feet in the pleasant sunshine of the early autumn afternoon and his flat voice went on and on languidly about the exorbitant costs of ginning the cotton at the new gin near Fayetteville.†   (source)
  • She wore a plain gray suit; the contrast between its tailored severity and her appearance was deliberately exorbitant—and strangely elegant.†   (source)
  • Why is it that you exact an exorbitant rent of eight dollars per week from the Thomas family for one unventilated, rat-infested room in which four people eat and sleep?†   (source)
  • Which seems to me, when I look about at my contemporary scene, no exorbitant gift from nature or circumstance to demand—'" "Will you wait?"†   (source)
  • He gave exorbitant tips.†   (source)
  • Anticipating an easier victory than she had foreseen, she named an exorbitant sum.†   (source)
  • He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost odious.†   (source)
  • There is my explanation; it is sad enough, Poole, ay, and appalling to consider; but it is plain and natural, hangs well together, and delivers us from all exorbitant alarms.†   (source)
  • There was food aboard, albeit at exorbitant prices, and the three of them contrived to eat a meal on one of the seats forward.†   (source)
  • I do not blame Oxford, because I think Oxford is quite right in demanding a certain social amenity from its nurslings (heaven knows it is not exorbitant in its requirements!†   (source)
  • Mrs. Dave Dyer broke into Carol's peroration with a furious, "That's all very well, but believe me, I do those things myself when I'm without a maid—and that's a good share of the time for a person that isn't willing to yield and pay exorbitant wages!"†   (source)
  • All we have ever managed to do is to pay our rent, the exorbitant rent that one has to pay for a few square feet of space near the heart of things.†   (source)
  • I did not object to these conditions because they were exorbitant and inhuman: it was their extraordinary irrelevance that prostrated me.†   (source)
  • She haunted out unassuming restaurant and entered, but was disturbed to find the prices were exorbitant for the size of her purse.†   (source)
  • Peter told his troubles to Mr. Shimerda: he was unable to meet a note which fell due on the first of November; had to pay an exorbitant bonus on renewing it, and to give a mortgage on his pigs and horses and even his milk cow.†   (source)
  • For the privilege of six rooms and a bath, running in a straight line, they were compelled to pay thirty-five dollars a month—an average, and yet exorbitant, rent for a home at the time.†   (source)
  • "So may Abraham, Jacob, and all the fathers of our people assist me," said Isaac, "I cannot make the choice, because I have not the means of satisfying your exorbitant demand!"†   (source)
  • Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning Oak's feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances.†   (source)
  • To such the State renders comparatively small service, and a slight tax is wont to appear exorbitant, particularly if they are obliged to earn it by special labor with their hands.†   (source)
  • I was far from expecting ever to belong to him, for the price asked for me from the time I was first enslaved was exorbitant, and always provoked either anger or derision, yet my master stuck stubbornly to it—twenty-two dollars.†   (source)
  • The living, suffering man was no longer before her to awaken her pity: there remained only the retrospect of painful subjection to a husband whose thoughts had been lower than she had believed, whose exorbitant claims for himself had even blinded his scrupulous care for his own character, and made him defeat his own pride by shocking men of ordinary honor.†   (source)
  • …was now quite alone; the monstrous dissipation and alliance of his brother Rawdon had estranged her affections from that reprobate young man; the greedy tyranny and avarice of Mrs. Bute Crawley had caused the old lady to revolt against the exorbitant pretensions of that part of the family; and though he himself had held off all his life from cultivating Miss Crawley's friendship, with perhaps an improper pride, he thought now that every becoming means should be taken, both to save her…†   (source)
  • The window, let at an exorbitant price, which the count had doubtless wished to conceal from his guests, was on the second floor of the great palace, situated between the Via del Babuino and the Monte Pincio.†   (source)
  • He is an exorbitant prince.†   (source)
  • …wives talked in an undertone to each other, over the tall pews, about their illnesses and the total failure of doctor's stuff, recommending dandelion-tea, and other home-made specifics, as far preferable—about the servants, and their growing exorbitance as to wages, whereas the quality of their services declined from year to year, and there was no girl nowadays to be trusted any further than you could see her—about the bad price Mr. Dingall, the Treddleston grocer, was giving for…†   (source)
  • Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations.†   (source)
  • There was an unlimited range of society--the powerful, the wise, the witty, and the famous in every walk of life; princes, presidents, poets, generals, artists, actors, and philanthropists,--all making their own market at the fair, and deeming no price too exorbitant for such commodities as hit their fancy.†   (source)
  • When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did not experience as of believing anything that did not present itself in conventional forms, she persuaded herself without difficulty that Charles's passion was nothing very exorbitant.†   (source)
  • …richest freight will be discharged upon a Jersey shore;—to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise; to keep up a steady despatch of commodities, for the supply of such a distant and exorbitant market; to keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, prospects of war and peace everywhere, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civilization—taking advantage of the results of all exploring expeditions, using new…†   (source)
  • Blighted and battered, but still responsive and still ironic, his face was like a lighted lantern patched with paper and unsteadily held; his thin whisker languished upon a lean cheek; the exorbitant curve of his nose defined itself more sharply.†   (source)
  • And this we offer to the poor sick folk who come to us trustfully and pay us at an exorbitant rate to be made well again!†   (source)
  • Sometimes, it is true, she tried to make a calculation, but she discovered things so exorbitant that she could not believe them possible.†   (source)
  • He had then cared but little about Lydgate's painful impressions with regard to the suggested change in the Hospital, or about the disposition towards himself which what he held to be his justifiable refusal of a rather exorbitant request might call forth.†   (source)
  • Miss Crawford, a little suspicious and resentful of a certain tone of voice, and a certain half-look attending the last expression of his hope, made a hasty finish of her dealings with William Price; and securing his knave at an exorbitant rate, exclaimed, "There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit.†   (source)
  • The nobles, whose power had become exorbitant during the reign of Stephen, and whom the prudence of Henry the Second had scarce reduced to some degree of subjection to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent; despising the feeble interference of the English Council of State, fortifying their castles, increasing the number of their dependants, reducing all around them to a state of vassalage, and striving by every means in their power, to place themselves…†   (source)
  • All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that Brujon, that somnolent fellow, had had three different commissions executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all fifty sous, an exorbitant outlay which attracted the attention of the prison corporal.†   (source)
  • Money troubles soon began again, Monsieur Lheureux urging on anew his friend Vincart, and Charles pledged himself for exorbitant sums; for he would never consent to let the smallest of the things that had belonged to HER be sold.†   (source)
  • Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing; and the excessive affection and endurance of the Miss Steeles towards her offspring were viewed therefore by Lady Middleton without the smallest surprise or distrust.†   (source)
  • LADY P: And been exorbitant— 2 AVOC: You have not, lady.†   (source)
  • He established a fixed rate for servants' wages, which were becoming recklessly exorbitant.†   (source)
  • …thou spoken as my thoughts are, all As my eternal purpose hath decreed; Man shall not quite be lost, but sav'd who will; Yet not of will in him, but grace in me Freely vouchsaf'd; once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit; and enthrall'd By sin to foul exorbitant desires; Upheld by me, yet once more he shall stand On even ground against his mortal foe; By me upheld, that he may know how frail His fallen condition is, and to me owe All his deliverance, and to none but me.†   (source)
  • Knavery and folly, though never so exorbitant, will more easily meet with assent; for ill-nature adds great support and strength to faith.†   (source)
  • Exorbitant duties on imported articles would beget a general spirit of smuggling; which is always prejudicial to the fair trader, and eventually to the revenue itself: they tend to render other classes of the community tributary, in an improper degree, to the manufacturing classes, to whom they give a premature monopoly of the markets; they sometimes force industry out of its more natural channels into others in which it flows with less advantage; and in the last place, they oppress…†   (source)
  • For he that taketh pains, and industriously layes himselfe to sleep, in case any uncouth and exorbitant fancy come unto him, cannot easily think it other than a Dream.†   (source)
  • Nor were his conditions exorbitant, or the man craving and eager to make a prey of us, but for fifteen guineas we had our whole passage and provisions and cabin, ate at the captain's table, and were very handsomely entertained.†   (source)
  • [*] This is a fact which I knew happen to a poor clergyman in Dorsetshire, by the villany of an attorney who, not contented with the exorbitant costs to which the poor man was put by a single action, brought afterwards another action on the judgment, as it was called.†   (source)
  • — O, my most equal hearers, if these deeds, Acts of this bold and most exorbitant strain, May pass with sufferance; what one citizen But owes the forfeit of his life, yea, fame, To him that dares traduce him? which of you Are safe, my honour'd fathers?†   (source)
  • Whether the Earths, or Suns motion make the day, and night; or whether the Exorbitant actions of men, proceed from Passion, or from the Divell, (so we worship him not) it is all one, as to our obedience, and subjection to God Almighty; which is the thing for which the Scripture was written.†   (source)
  • These demands, however, grew at last so frequent and exorbitant, that my father by slow degrees opened his ears to the accounts which he received from many quarters of my present behaviour, and which my mother failed not to echo very faithfully and loudly; adding, 'Ay, this is the fine gentleman, the scholar who doth so much honour to his family, and is to be the making of it.†   (source)
  • Indifference may, perhaps, sometimes yield to it; but the usual triumphs gained by perseverance in a lover are over caprice, prudence, affectation, and often an exorbitant degree of levity, which excites women not over-warm in their constitutions to indulge their vanity by prolonging the time of courtship, even when they are well enough pleased with the object, and resolve (if they ever resolve at all) to make him a very pitiful amends in the end.†   (source)
  • Among these latter, the act of eating, which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, heroe, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest order to perform.†   (source)
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