| 单词 | price |
| 例句 | He realizes that he has not asked the price, but without a thought he signs the receipt for two hundred dollars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The dwarf was pulled down roughly from the saddle and lashed to a post whilst his captor woke the stable’s owner and haggled with him over the price of his horse and saddle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She padded the grocery bills, added to the prices of clothes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She was holding a bag of frozen peas in each hand, comparing prices or brands, Virgil didn’t know which. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Now the Queen was paying her own price: She was dying, and so were her land and her people. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The Greek behind the counter said the price was sixty cents, so that when he had paid he was left with only a nickel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Because of those laws, not much foreign beer gets exported to Germany, and because of inefficiency and high prices much less of that wonderful German beer than you would otherwise expect gets sold abroad. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was designed to increase the speed, lower prices, and raise the volume of sales. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Starting in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the gov-ernment began a policy to keep prices from rising or falling too much. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The price for the coffeehouse. You’ve got a good spot here. You sell this place, you’ll get enough money to set you up nice.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What a price to pay for a soul.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z We might make as much as fifty cents on that one catch, ten times the price of a soft blue crab. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As yields grew and farmers grew more corn, prices dropped. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was not only the price he must pay for his hours with the girl, but there was the pretty demanding of her desires. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Down from Sweet Jimmy’s place a woman was bargaining with a used furniture dealer over the price of a lamp. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small price to pay if it simplified such a great problem and let you know which hand was which. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was my account! Mine! How dare you undercut my price!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When Prosper saw the price tag underneath its plinth, he nearly knocked over a large statue in the center of the shop. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “The wait is up to four years and even I am embarrassed to mention the price. Have your weapon made by another.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Just call the paper and tell them to lower the price,” said Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Richard Lopez thought your clean blood and clear eyes and strong heart would fetch an excellent price from the Harvesters. You wish I had stayed loyal to that?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The “relos” move periodically from place to place but usually resettle into a neighborhood much like the one they left, adjoined by other subdivisions just a price point richer or poorer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z To Stella it seemed a small price to pay to live. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Cane sugar production in Cuba was booming, driving down prices. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Intrigued at the cheap price, the man walked around to the other side of the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if he’ll give it all to me at that price. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The method worked, but black families paid a heavy price and children were hardest hit: there had already been several tear gas- related deaths. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The lady and us, we settle upon a price. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z And, at any rate, the price of a share of General Electric didn’t mean a thing to the vast majority of Americans, who owned no stock at all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “How can we know what is a fair price, if we do not know what the pearl buyer gets for the pearl in another place.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Snow could have gotten a really good price for the girl on fire. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z According to his calculations, that sum would be enough for her studies, so that all that was lacking was the price of her fare back home. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z America’s embrace of speedy executions was, in part, an attempt to redirect the violent energies of lynching while assuring white southerners that black men would still pay the ultimate price. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At that price Naylor would have lost more than a dollar on every bushel of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I had coasted along without having to pay a price for my commitment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The price was always remembering to be grateful. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He hated explaining to them why his prices were higher than at other stores, even the other Korean ones, though he always did. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She bought clothes and more clothes, lovely things with fat price tags. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Like I said,” he continued, “crops is down, but prices is too.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “If being cold is part of the price of being free then we’ll just have to pay it,” she said, and sat up even straighter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "No," she wept, "no, please, stop it, it's too high, the price is too high." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For the price of five reales, people could look into the telescope and see the gypsy woman an arm’s length away. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But those who gave in had to pay a price, for to invite death inside would mean striking a bargain with it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It took him half an hour to escape, and then only at the price of carrying with him a juicy piece of raw beef which he was supposed to hold over his eye. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Much of a pinhead as you is, if I was you, I wouldn’t pay no more’n half price,” he said to one man. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Carriages came in a wide variety of models, styles, and price ranges for commercial and private use. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He bent to jot the price on the receipt pad. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘At a bargain price,’ said others, ‘and that’s more likely when Mistress Lobelia’s the buyer.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If we had enough money to pay the ridiculous prices, we could stuff ourselves silly. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I also had no idea how the prices on the menu corresponded to the money in my pocket, so I would hand the waiter a large bill and wait to receive change. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Business picked up and prices began to rise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Unable to resist this ripe opportunity for promotion, Mr. Cogswell had also tacked a smaller banner across the back of the wagon, advertising “Fresh Cherries at Cogswell’s. Best price in town.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He was thinking hard, and I hoped he was calculating the cost of Sarah’s wardrobe and the price of gas. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t heard Mamma say much about Stanford besides to lament the price tag of a private school education. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She waited on her without complaint, but she managed subtly to extract from her the price of her invalidism. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At first the prices had been so modest—a few hundred dollars per piece—that Mia sometimes had to take on two jobs, or even three. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She will be safe, and the price is nothing that matters. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the dressing room, Mrs. Trepid changed back into her own dress, took out her glasses, and examined the price tag. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to make “popular price” stuff—wash dresses, silks, and woolens. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z One of his first tasks was to convince the generic manufacturers that reduced second-line antibiotic prices could still result in significant revenues and profits. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was the biggest tree in the neighborhood and its price was so high that no one could afford to buy it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And farmers wished they hadn’t contracted their beans for a lousy two cents a pound above the going price six months ago. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She stood before it a minute, selecting a box of doughnuts at half price. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z A “fantastic” house is surely fantastic enough to warrant a high price, isn’t it? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z After international investigators confirmed that a North Korean torpedo sank the Cheonan, voters in the South refused to rally around President Lee, who had said the North Korean government should “pay a price.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The prices ranged from seventy-five to a hundred and ten dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z But I knew Papa h; d warned me that the colored always paid a price when the races got too close to each other. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The prices exclude the city’s own teachers and firemen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Helps keep my hair in place and protects me from the elements. Two for the price of one!” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He was very busy with his politics and his business, traveling constantly, financing new political campaigns, buying land and tractors, raising race horses, and speculating on the price of gold, sugar, and paper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wanted, oh so badly, to come here; and disregarded my mother’s wishes, and paid a big price to come,” she confided to her diary. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My nail circles the little spintria symbol, and I wonder how Du Barry and the Beauty Minister quantify the price of beauty. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “In exchange, she swore to me that one day I would tip the balance of power. I would bring the minor gods respect. An eye was a small price to pay.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Some of these ‘oddities’ might be peculiar,” said Millard, “in which case they might know something about Miss Wren. I say it’s worth the price of admission.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But it had done so at a costly price: The poor were pushed farther and farther from the heart of the city — the center of wealth, hope, and potential. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z They price their assets as if their customers knew as much about their quality as they do. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Still, it was a small price to pay for better depth perception. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But the price is subjugation to a way of life completely alien to their urges and desires. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I give you betteh one!” he said, indicating the higher price on the sticker. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Mr. Lyte, owning the matching cups, would pay a very good price. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Bill Ferny’s price was twelve silver pennies; and that was indeed at least three times the pony’s value in those parts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Ma’s taking out all the things she’s bought and putting ’em on the table, taking the price tags off Becky’s underpants and socks. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But these men hadn’t made it, and the price would be severe. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z These generous gifts were a small price to pay for the respect and prestige they could bring the giver. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It seemed like a steep price to pay for a ride home. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It took us half an hour to agree on the price. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z For that price, a parent with one child could afford to be late every day and only pay an extra $60 each month—just one-sixth of the base fee. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Thus our father put down the purchase price himself, as he has four sons and not enough land for us all. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Through it all, Attorney General Palmer continued to practice restraint, and soon he paid the price for it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z On a slip of paper the salesman scribbled a price and then briefly, almost furtively, showed it to Rick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Hell, it never has been and it never will be any fun but it’s the reward that you get for payin’ the price, payin’ your dues, okay? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He hurried on, “We bought futures at five cents and when the price jumped—It’s for you, fifteen thousand dollars. It’s for you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They set the price of oil, and that felt funny as hell. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I see her check the price of one of them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The prices of clothing, for example, have barely risen in the last decade, while department store prices in general fell 10 percent from 1994 to 2004, the federal government says. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Since war started, prices of food and everything else had skyrocketed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When she told me the ridiculous price the contractor had quoted her for replacing it, I went online to find a tutorial on how to lay tile. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He could hear customers shouting orders, people haggling over prices, babies wailing for their mothers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Adam Trask refused to buy in a hurry, and Bordoni was asking a big price and using the selling method of pretending not to care whether he sold or not. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And when he saw the prices he was glad X-Ray had brought over the three hundred dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z And yet, if you only watched Aunt Toyo, you might never guess the price of this defeat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “It depends on what they are. The price is reasonable.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe I could afford Mr. Rory’s prices if someone’s firm paid me on time,” I said with a teasing grin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I was Madame Ngemba, someone to commiserate with in the market over the price of fruit, the mother of children who sought mischief with theirs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a little disappointed that the car was not so expensive as he had hoped, but what it lacked in price was more than made up for in color and style. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Was I so blind, or did I close my eyes willfully, so I would not have to see the price of power? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You don’t think you’re paying the price for all your luck?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Rani finally agrees on a price, and the man fills a plastic bag with something flaky and yellow. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “But remember—I’m not giving them away. I must be paid. The price is threepence for each of you.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z In Iowa a bushel of corn fetched less than the price of a packet of gum. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At the restaurant she insisted that the waitress had overcharged her for her milk shake, even though the price was right there on the menu. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z If it were not, one could make a killing on the stock exchange by having a computer that would remember tomorrow’s prices! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “But if you can defeat my dwarf, you may have the price I paid for him, in gold.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were so courteous that Dany was hopeful for a time, but in the end the price they asked was far beyond her means, and might have been beyond Xaro's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But Wang Lung would never talk of selling a foot of any piece, and he would only rent it for an agreed price for a year at a time. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I hate to be so mercenary, but the price of flour has gone up too.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes a man brings in a dozen. Well, let us see your pearl. We will value it and give you the best price.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z This diversity, with many different types of crops, allowed the farmer to get by if prices fell for any one crop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In fact, the first thing he’d thought when he heard the news about his daughter was what price the driver’s insurance company would pay. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She heard shrill voices at the marketplace: women shouting outrage at the prices, vendors shouting in reply. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The tannery owners are buying the land. They pay good prices.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z "Five million,” he repeated slowly, "sounds like a fair price.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Like all such racial pioneers, Joycelyn understood that she would have to pay a price for being first. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I guess trading away your prime of life is a fair price for somebody flying you out of that hellhole. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then and there, in a fever of impatience, we got out the gunny bags and the tall brass measure, and set to calculating quantities and prices. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course the prices are wrong. It was ten cents for a coffee, then.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Conversation would be nice, but the true reward would be the ability to haggle fluently and get my next two-headed skull for the same price as a normal one. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Nicholas of Cusa had turned the earth into a true star, but only at the price of turning the sun into an earth—hardly anyone was prepared to follow him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a superhuman feat that came at a price—the immense suffering of the workers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z In the first case, you fear setting the price too low; in the second, you fear setting it too high. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z On Wall Street, stock prices were racing toward an all-time high. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z How grateful she must have felt to pay such a modest price for her betrayal. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z For the consumer, it is a godsend, as he is no longer required to pay outrageous prices for music that may end up being bad. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mad to believe your word alone! The price must be silence, utter silence!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The store had a chess collection—at prices lower than Buschke’s—combined with a specialization in Caribbean and radical literature. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had promised to school me in how to beat the barbershops’ three- and four-dollar price by making up congo- lene, and then conking ourselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Bep has offered to get us some fruit, at so-called bargain prices: grapes 2.50 guilders a pound, gooseberries 70 cents a pound, one peach 50 cents, melons 75 cents a pound. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Not long after Naomi began looking through the enormous racks of children’s coats, checking the prices, Cari and Beto tugged at her sleeve. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She would succeed in this, she had to—the price of failure was too high. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He disliked the petty complaints about the prices, especially from the customers in Manhattan. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, if lumber prices was too low, the mill would shut down for a few weeks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Drop the price per ounce, but sell a lot more ounces. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And he would, if the price was right. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Most of it still got price tags on it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z He saw a place where the great panacea of school integration had turned into a numbers game in which the blacks and the Hispanics ended up paying the greater price. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As Grandpa had predicted, the price of coonskins jumped sky-high. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Three of the five terms correlated with a higher sale price are physical descriptions of the house itself: granite, Corian, and maple. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The boys circled around to find blond and perky Anna Archie on one knee, aiming her price gun at a stack of electrical outlets sitting next to a box of massaging showerheads. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z This is a small price for what he’s given me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “He knew it,” said Elisha, “because He was willing to pay the price. Don’t you know it, Johnny? Ain’t you willing to pay the price?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Unnoticed by the townspeople, who were busy sweeping up glass and haggling over the price of the fuel, Will followed the bear-king up the gangway and aboard the ship. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And before I knew it, I was saying my conclusion, and Danny had begun his argument on why women could not make important decisions about war or about the prices of oil and gas. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Electronic computers were rare jewels, their million-dollar-plus price tags affordable only by large research universities and government institutions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z No one wanted him even at that price, and he lost again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not in the note. He expressed his ’deep concern’ but didn’t mention anything about price. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But on another day he came back smiling sideways and confided to Mama that every man has his price. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They lower their prices to try to sell their grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was lovely, and reasonably priced, so I bought it hoping it would keep her happy until I could find a way to get my photo taken. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I put a very high price on the house. I was going to come down during negotiations. Mr. Trask accepted the first price. It put me in a fix.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He looks at the items, does some addition in his head, and names a price. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It took me a long time to understand the awful price I’d paid, and that even God has to admit the worth of freedom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She drags out a bright yellow bike and shakes her head at the price tag. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding the price was exorbitant for such hard accommodation, Dr. Trefusis nodded, which movement was imperceptible almost from the palsy of his chill, and we were admitted into the house. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z "Well, look fast. She goes to the butcher soon. Hardly anyone will buy her milk, and then they only pay half price," said the man. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Black women were quoted a price, on average, of $1,195 above invoice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She pointed at a sign up on the wall that listed the prices for rooms in red ink. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z If there was a penny over and above the price of the rice at the kitchens for the poor, they bought a bit of cabbage. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Five of them have a strong positive correlation to the ultimate sale price, and five have a strong negative correlation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As we eat, Daddy and the Senator talk about cotton prices, boll weevils. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Do you know how many mothers pushed their daughters at him? Do you know how many asked him to impregnate them, even, and not to bother paying a bride price?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She saw piles of butchered chickens and was able to buy as many as she wanted even though they cost three times as much as usual, since free pricing had been decreed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ida Wells-Barnett understood that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I can have a room without a kitchenette right now if I want, but it’s in the basement and the price—$144 a week—seems a little steep. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But when they stopped in at the realty offices and filled out applications, they found that the houses suddenly went off the market, or were sold, or doubled in price. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If you support a war, if you think it’s worth the price, that’s fine, but you have to put your own precious fluids on the line. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But this was a wasteful method, for often, in the excitement of bidding for a fine pearl, too great a price had been paid to the fishermen. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Partly as a result, food prices in Japan are very high: the best beef costs $200 a pound, while chicken costs $25 a pound. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dad looks at the coins in Mr. Heggarty s hand and says,You could add to that and make the price of a pint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d ended in old Rome with Leo breaking a cookie and paying a price much worse than an eye. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z From the beginning, I felt it, snug inside my heart, the pearl of great price. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Do you know how many favors I would have had to call in? How many bribes I’d have had to pay out to get Matthias Helvar out of prison? The price was too high.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “He says... he says every price has a tax.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I was traded in for the price of six goats and a cow for my eldest sister's wedding. My parents promised they'd come back to get me as soon as they repaid him.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “But there is a demand for medical supplies. I can roll the cotton up on wooden toothpicks and peddle them as sterile swabs. Will he sell to me at a good price?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z With so many thieves around anxious to get rid of stolen good-quality merchandise cheaply, many Harlemites, purely because of this conditioning, jumped to pay hot prices for inferior goods whose sale was perfectly legitimate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It helped him to see that every regularly priced carton he bought meant that the white man’s government took around two dollars of a black man’s hard-earned money for taxes, not for tobacco. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It seems like a price, giving up our names, but maybe it’s a fair exchange for the gun being lowered. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z In fact they cared not at all about the war, about scientific inventions, about the advance of industry, the price of gold, or the latest extravaganzas in the world of fashion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have a gift to deliver to him, a gemstone of unimaginable price, carved by your ancestors before your people crossed the Bonecruel Mountains into this land.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The price of dogs had dropped five dollars. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he read his paper of an evening, Demi’s colic got into the shipping list and Daisy’s fall affected the price of stocks, for Mrs. Brooke was only interested in domestic news. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is everything you need to fix the truck. You’ll get a better price for it now.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He said that if someone touched your sister or your mother, they paid the price, and everyone looked the other way. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The price is never as high as the cost of managing the same diseases during the earlier stages of no-technology or halfway technology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The judgment of how to price the deal will come from the investment bankers themselves,” said Kulkarni. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z We paid good money, the same prices, but we just couldn’t eat inside. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And even if we sold it, you couldn’t possibly pay the price. What kind of animal do you have at home?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z "Why? I don't need a discount or anything just because it's the display. I'll pay full price." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Beautiful pictures! Three for the price of one!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Sometimes it gives me a bad rash first, but that’s the price of beauty, right?** Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “One drink. With a drink from your well, Mimir, I will be wise. Name your price.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Whatever the price of saving lives, Farmer and Lafontant believed, it must be paid. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Now that the food is running low, I’m going to have to walk again, to get the best price. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z His mate would be marching sturdily beside him, also with a price on her head—her hair shaven off before she took to the woods, and known as a weyve. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Just why Mr. Frodo was selling his beautiful hole was even more debatable than the price. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z That was one good thing about all the fighting— soldiers ate beans, and prices would be high. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “We run the Kelley Blue Book values on all these, so our prices are fair.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z So I didn’t resist, although when we were back in the car and Mom started complaining about the price of gasoline, I wondered if maybe I should have. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If he found himself unexpectedly overboard, Richard Parker would simply tread water, climb back aboard and make me pay the price for my treachery. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Arnold and I worked out new prices, since Pasqual would be doing additional work. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z And if Singer were a drinking kind of man he could get liquor at half price any time he wanted it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Not easy to say. I paid a heavy price to say it. Many sleepless nights.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Why, the law of supply and demand regulates the price of houses.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I thought he was just trying to drive up his prices.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “He’s buying my house. Giving me a very good price for it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Drivers always like to up the price of a ride after the fact. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I gave the woman fifty centimes to make a tip, and she gave me back the copper piece, thinking I had misunderstood the price. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I felt that pork chops were a fundamental item in life, but I preferred that someone else chart their rise and fall in price. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I told myself that I was tired, that I must not judge these men who picked me up and for the price of a ride submitted me to the swamps of their fantasy lives. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re still pretty enough to fetch a good price. Getting hard around the eyes though—too much time spent with that little thug Brekker.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If the price of dog food and cake mix can be rationalized, why can’t some sort of rough “safety index” be devised which allows us to gauge how safe various activities, procedures, and illnesses are? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But I got a decent price for his pelt. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I went to Purity Supreme, wandering up and down the aisles, converting ounces to grams and comparing prices to things in England. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But affordable prices are only one reason the marketplace has blurred. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z To avoid getting caught, they used earphones, which were sold at exorbitant prices. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In fact bitterness arose as the day wore on and prices went up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If the boys wanted steak, they knew they had to pay Lee’s prices. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I held out my hand, vowing that never again would this happen to me, no matter what the price. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Not I. They had invaded our village with clatter and din, had taken from us the maidan where our children played, and had made the bazaar prices too high for us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were aiming for white-owned businesses that sell inferior goods at inflated prices. There’s a study out about how the poor actually pay more for the basic necessities.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z They had set a fixed price for all Sierra Leoneans; those who couldn’t pay were kicked off the bus. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And so he stared at the price above the ticket-seller’s window and, showing her his coins, received the piece of paper that was charged with the power to open doors. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Occasionally Chuck or Johnny shelled out a dime for a dance, but to Joe the price seemed extravagant. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “He is inspecting it—No price has been mentioned yet—They have not come to a price.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Then again, you can never put a price on human life—so it’s down the hatch they go. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He has remained faithful to the first floor where, for the single admission price of ten dollars, he has a choice of activities. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Often, as in the case of term life insurance prices, the information existed but in a woefully scattered way. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “The price is doubled, too,” Archie reminded him, enjoying himself now. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Now farm policy was aimed at one thing: keeping corn prices as low as possible. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He’d said the ugliest thing possible to his dad, and now he was paying the price. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I figured that wasn’t too bad a price for as much fun as we’d had. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The storekeeper took down bolts and bolts of beautiful calicos and spread them out for Ma to finger and look at and price. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Human fallibility is always a part of war, and the price for it is always high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had got a good price for the cattle and had negotiated for most of the other things he wanted to bring back to Redding. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Fifteen! For the prop of my old age and the delight of my eyes! Do not mock my grey beard, Tarkaan though you be. My price is seventy." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z These were sold to the gussaks who paid high prices for them, and within a few years the people of Kangik became independent and prosperous. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Augurs tricked everyone into thinking I died yesterday. Fll explain later. What’s important is that I'm setting you free—for a price.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I walked around the shop while Eliza argued with the owner about his prices. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He acknowledged the high price exacted by the war in human death and suffering, and assured listeners he was eager to negotiate a settlement. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I lied, knowing it to be a reasonable price. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Melisandre had practiced her art for years beyond count, and she had paid the price. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “About half. We still have quite a nest egg. About fifteen million dollars at today's market prices.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z As a young man, when I joined the African National Congress, I saw the price my comrades paid for their beliefs, and it was high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Trinity brothers wanted peace at any price, quiet on the campus, no broken bones. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked about whose daughter had run off with whose son, who’d had babies, who had died, the price of groceries, the hot weather, the rickety buses between San Juan and Santurce. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They forgot El-ahrairah, for what use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy’s warren and paying his price? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Moushumi blushes, glances at the price tag dangling from a thread on one side of her face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For the first time I realized that there were other students like me, and so I was able to frame the meaning of my academic success, its consequent price—the loss. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We and our pathogens are now locked in an escalating evolutionary contest, with the death of one contestant the price of defeat, and with natural selection playing the role of umpire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The carcasses were laid out, blackened and crusty and minus their heads, and the vendors’ cries went out and the prices went up. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z What there is for sale, the prices are expensive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Inevitably there are mystery items requiring extra time and inquiry: clothes that have wandered over from girls’ or men’s, clearanced items whose tags haven’t been changed to reflect their new prices, the occasional one-of-a-kind. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw them toiling, saw them suffer and grow gray about things that to him did not seem worth the price—for money, small pleasures and trivial honors. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Sanjeev had found the house on his own before leaving for the wedding, for a good price, in a neighborhood with a fine school system. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “And your brother knows about that sort of thing, believe me. He bought himself an old cedar table in the city Talked the guy down to three hundred and got the chairs half price.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z "I'm okay," Turtle replied, the final prices of actively traded stocks rumbling in her ear. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She had kept, precariously enough, what her aunt referred to as her pearl without price while she had been with Richard down home. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “You’re free to go to other places. Offer will last.until five. But you’ll find that I give the best price. I’m not trying to sell you short.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “No I wasn’t. I was pricing out, like, vent brushes. Seri-ously, I was.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z But now we’re paying the price for having had so little physical exercise; we’re so stiff we can hardly turn our heads. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They could not start in paying café prices. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The price of loin of pork and the tax on beer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Second, if contact was made, he’d never accept the first offer, and he usually named an amount that was double or triple—or more—pricing himself out of the market. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z All along the way Jefferson chafed at the jump in prices brought about by “harpies who prey upon travelers” returning to Philadelphia. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it was the price we were willing to pay to be popular. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Or for that matter, the price of china in Turkey.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z More importantly, driving seemed to cost much less than using public transport — an illusion created by the fact that the price of a new car did not include the price of building new roads. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z It is hard enough to confront the environ- mental options ahead, and the hard choices, but even harder when the price tags are so visible. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had long before accepted the fact that education exacted a great price for its equally great benefits. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When he heard that the price was only six dollars, he said he would buy the pig. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The problem was woven into every aspect of family life, from the high price of fresh fruits to widespread cuts in funding for sports and rec programs in public schools. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On the other hand, world sugar prices were plummeting. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was a hard and bitter price to pay. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of the garlic would make the very shopkeepers in the cloth shops raise the price of blue cotton cloth as they might raise the price for a foreigner. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "You could hire an army of common sellswords for half the price, and that's for a merchant. I don't dare think what they might ask for a princess." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The Klan trafficked in secret information whose secrecy engendered fear, while insurance prices were less a secret than a set of facts dispensed in a way that made comparisons difficult. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Audiences who attend operas are usually able to afford the price of a ticket and are of an educational level and demographic cohort that supports, understands, and appreciates the form. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z With prices like that, how can Naylor and the other corn farmers stay in business? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I liked a dark blue one, but when we checked the price tag, Mamá and I convinced ourselves it did not fit right. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z If taking care of the poor and the sick meant sacrificing time with his family, it was a price he had to pay. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Honey, your inventory might move a little faster if you dropped your prices,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He would go with the silver in his hand and he would say plainly, “I have money. What is the price of the earth you wish to sell?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Octavian, you are a gem of rare price. You are worth every ell of the rope that they shall hang me with.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But there was also a price to pay. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He had paid the iron price for every one, Theon knew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I glance at the price tag on a ridiculous pink sweater and see that it’s on sale for ninety-nine dollars. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z If we kept to our budget, we believed, we could afford new clothes and shoes and coats, and buy a ton of coal at the cheaper off-season price. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She looked up at his shadowed eyes and asked, “If you grant my wish, will there be a price to pay?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When prices fall, the only way they can stay in business is to find a way to grow even more corn or soy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “That’s why I waited so long. I was holding out for the right price.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "If you knew what the oath would cost you, you might be less eager to pay the price, son." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Oh, the effects of it were real—the rising prices, the shortage of everything, the news that so-and-so had been killed in some faraway battle. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that day, I took Barack to lunch at the fancy restaurant on the first floor of our office building, a place packed with well-groomed bankers and lawyers power lunching over meals priced like dinners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Delighted — and young Master Malfoy, too — charmed. How may I be of assistance? I must show you, just in today, and very reasonably priced —” “I’m not buying today, Mr. Borgin, but selling,” said Mr. Malfoy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A woman’s stern voice spoke from above: You will pay the price for that, Daedalus. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A bicycle would be handy but you’d have to be working a year for the price of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “No, people buy the tickets last minute at half price, or for even less, and the show would technically sell out” His parents had bought tickets this way before in New York. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Men shouted their prices over one another, and their voices echoed through the bazaar. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She said the ticket price was a waste of her hard-earned money. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z If you asked the price of anything, the shopkeeper would say, “For you....” and pretend he was giving you a great deal, but you knew he would say that for anybody. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Many of them spoke Spanish, which made it easy for Mami to negotiate the price of everything. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The answer strikes me like a whip when the men finally settle on a price. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z At that price, the customers had to supply their own wrappings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But that was the price you paid for a life of crime. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The price tag for Valley Forge was even steeper than that for Riverdale. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z This li’l boy’s got a whole bunch of money pinned to the front of his jersey—it must be his birthday—and he’s got the nerve to complain about my prices? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Money was greatly on his mind, though not as relentlessly as it had been earlier in the day—a day he’d begun “without the price of a cat’s miaow.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Lower corn prices drive farmers out of business. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was a price to be paid for such joys, though; the deck was hard, and he woke stiff and sore, his legs cramped and aching. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The answer is a little complicated, but it boils down to this: The price of corn is kept low by government policies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It took them miles out of their way, and cost them two days at the least, but the old man said it was cheap at the price. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Those vegetables,” he said, “that Old Granny buys from you. What price does she pay you?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Olmsted had another reason to worry about high meal prices. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In just a few minutes, there was a long list of differences—things like advertisements, a purchase price, color pictures, comics, gossip columns, advice columns, world news. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z “I went to Malley’s,” he said, “and bought my chocolate half price.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He was always telling her what she could and couldn’t do, howling over the price and necklines of her outfits, telling her to go to bed, to get up, to speak, to keep silent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “It’s true! Land speculators are just spoiling prices for everybody. And the speculators are guys in government. We have serious problems in this country,” Ahmed said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “With your eyes, and then keep walking. Tell me what you like, and I’ll go back and get a good price.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z There were some among the traders—those who had put up their prices and made their money—who regretted their going. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because otherwise the price would go up. It’s fun to bargain, although I’m not good at it. The market is so crowded. I drank pomegranate juice that someone squeezed right in front of us.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “No, and the good year will break the price of beef. I wonder what Will would do. He’s scarcity man. He told me. He said, ‘Always deal in scarcities.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead of trying to keep corn prices low, gov-ernment farm policy was aimed at keeping food prices—and farmers’ income—stable. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It is these government checks, or subsidies, that keep corn and soybean prices low. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Whatever decisions the Collective made long ago were made in our best interest. What we are now was what they were striving for. Unity demands sacrifice. Sacrifice comes with a price.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z "Not wishing to take advantage of this emergency, I've reduced the price to only five dollars each." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is your price?” he whispered at last. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “What’s that got to do with the price of milk? Come inside.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z We pay two hundred and forty dollars each, the kind of price you can get away with charging people whose savings accounts would go to waste otherwise. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “It varies depending on a homeowner’s needs, but the base price for this model is about sixty-five thousand dollars.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z There are specialty stores where they sell dog meat but at a very expensive price. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then listen to me. Set your price much higher. In short, tender yourself more dearly, or you'll tender me a fool!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "Never mind, just write down the prices of our stocks as they cross the tape like I'm doing. Once school opens it's all up to you." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew the prices of everything in the store. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Please, Bryson, can I borrow”—he looked at the price—“four dollars and seventy-nine cents? I’m broke.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z "Thirty? Did I say thirty? Such a fool I am. The price is twenty honors." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Yeah,” she muttered, "price we pay for having the last bunk. Guess we’ll have to shower tomorrow.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The slave sailors off the Selaesori Qhoran, sold singly, had gone for prices ranging from five hundred, to nine hundred pieces of silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His mother was going on as she did every year about the incredible price of trees and butter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The markets were crowded with ragged men selling their household goods for any price they could get . . . and conspicuously empty of farmers selling food. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “With grain prices the way they are...what are we going to live on?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z A visor and a pair of haptic gloves were included in the rental price, but a haptic suit cost extra. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At his suggestion, his parents had recently purchased an electronic touchscreen register that had all the prices programmed in, along with a credit card machine, allowing customers to sign their name with their finger. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Julius Caesar and Pompey, two of the three generals who shared the ruling power in Rome, agreed to provide Ptolemy with the support he needed, but it came at a very high price. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Also, prices of critical supplies such as oil, bread, and sugar had risen because of the policies of the government in the capital city of Khartoum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I read the neatly typed NOTICE! until I saw that it was only another list of prices a white man would pay for various types of sensuality with various ages of Negro girls. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The next night, when all the serious news about wars and oil prices and world food supplies had been talked about on the CBS evening news, the anchorman looked into the camera and smiled. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the most pernicious factors, Olmsted found, was the widespread fear that anyone who ventured to Chicago would be “fleeced unmercifully,” especially in the fair’s many restaurants, with their “extortionate” prices. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “That song they sing,” said John, finally, “if it costs my life—is that the price?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The list prices, naturally, appeared in italics; like Percheron horses, none existed on the market for sale at any figure. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He'd told me all about human traffickers who offered to deliver people to the safety of the West—for a price. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And they paid whatever price the white man asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I gotta know all the prices cold and do the math right. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z If that’s what a house cost, she would pay the price. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He told the judge that Bodega, as an American citizen in business for himself, could set any price he desired on hot dogs, since hot dogs were not controlled substances. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Nights when he failed to get up, he paid the price by having to start a new fire from scratch while he shivered in his underwear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z "Besides, the rent's too steep for a secretary's salary. Believe me, you get the same luxuries here at a third of the price." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I quickly came to realize all of this work was the price of playing a sport well. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He returned to the sweatshirts even though Kaira told him not to worry about the price. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z After setding on the best school districts, he said, “we looked within price points.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She examined each object, sighing audibly before affixing a price tag, and scolded her husband for trying to carry things too heavy for him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Running wide around turns offers the best chance of clear sailing but exacts a high price in extra distance the horse has to cover. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “If this were a business matter, Mr. Stonecrop, would you be giving us an offer above the market price?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Sir,” the animal salesman said, “our asking price is already a thousand dollars under book. Check your Sidney’s; I’ll hang on. I want you to see for yourself, sir, that our price is fair.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z As it was, she spent the night in one of the guest rooms, paying full price, although Mistress Cutler pretended for a moment that she couldn’t possibly take payment from an old and valued employee. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The fresher it was, the higher the price. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The pouches were available by the carton from a little man who didn’t bother adding government tax to his prices. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Blake knew some carpentry—it was not, as was often the case, a lie put out by the trader to bump up his price. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I paid half price, because I was under eighteen, but half price in those times was more than full price when everything was peaceful. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Although Harry much preferred this new laughing, joking Ron to the moody, aggressive model he had been enduring for the last few weeks, the improved Ron came at a heavy price. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z That way, they could have the prized Asian spices they wanted without having to pay high prices to Venetian and Muslim middlemen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z With customers able to instantaneously find the cheapest policy, the more expensive companies had no choice but to lower their prices. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Grandma took charge of a small hamper full of our lunch, since they charge you two prices for everything at a fair. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, and when you do make it to Miss America, you already know who’s doing all of your styling! I won’t even charge you full price!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “To learn the right thing to say, there is a price you must pay.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Besides, the price was fair, and he was leaving today. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Yes. Then there’d be many questions, you see. Even the king must pay the price.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z These types of desktops have only recently started shipping in the States, and they’re, of course, way out of my price range. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He now knew what price the beast had truly asked of him. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The details of her crime did not hold up under scrutiny, but she paid the ultimate price. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. Usually with a poor crop, we at least get the higher prices. Only thing that staying the same right now seems to be the mortgage payment.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, though, he couldn’t get that tin of red paint out of his mind, and he thought he’d paddle along to the chandlery in Jericho, just to get an idea of the price. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z How could I spend thirty cents on a kilo of beef roast, when I could get twice as many potatoes for a fifth of that price? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When he heard the story, Hiatt said, “Looks like price gouging to me.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z ‘If they come to bargain for our goods at Helm’s Gate, they will pay a high price,’ said Gamling. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In the United States the price of corn is usually below what it costs to grow it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z That put extra grain on the market and brought the price down. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “There is always a price. And when you don’t know what it is up front, then you must be prepared for it to be too heavy a burden when they come for you.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Later we got in trouble and our allowance was docked for the price of the Kleenex. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “There is always a price, is there not?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Daily rental prices varied, depending on the horse and planned use, but the cost was usually under a dollar a day. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But at this point, even the United States was over the shah because...wait for it...he increased the price of oil. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Since they were going to be the last blue emitters made for some time, the price was high, and my share was slightly over a talent and a half. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The price of peace had been high: expelling himself from the gang, proclaiming himself a traitor, banishing his beloved pet. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Her mom took one look at the price and called on Jesus. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Still, there is always a price to be paid. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even the silent victors began to realize that victory came at a high price. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Art, science—you seem to have paid a fairly high price for your happiness,” said the Savage, when they were alone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z "Even a man's courtesies. Stay, and you shall have your answers ... for a price." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Some had prices written in marker on the covers, like the library had gotten rid of them in a clearance sale. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z During all my months of ciphering, I had counted on selling my grain to the miller at grain prices, not to the odd farmer as cattle feed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z As soon as we’re within shouting distance, three or four bus hawkers immediately surround Baba, negotiating the best price to Adana. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z And no one there seemed very interested when Jim declared, “We can drive down the prices by ninety to ninety-five percent.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Maybe a painter would come by and we could argue about method and haggle about price.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She has a nice smile, which she tends to offer me for the small price of an extra cherry or two. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers had come back into town following the frost, and their prices dropped as quickly as the temperature. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The uncomfortable silence from the car was holding, however, and Faith and I were having only the briefest exchanges, to discuss prices and sizes, to make change or to ask for “The cash box, please.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z But there was no price that could be put on Sounder’s voice. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have several bays free, so there’s no waiting. Package pricing information is displayed right here.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “There is no price. I tell you it will obey you, serve you as your slave.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Some shelves had rows of untouched chip bags and candy bars, all priced like they were endangered, precious goods. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Then I’ll owe them much, much more than the price of the photos.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Now the traders retreated into their tents, and the visitors to the market found themselves whispered at, invited to partake of numerous wonders, each available for a price. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In the late 1990s, the price of term life insurance fell dramatically. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He spoke a stately English without ever using the letter R. When the tong wars were going on in California, it happened now and then that Lee found a price on his head. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few minutes’ confusion, Baba agrees a price and an otobus. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She would grab the box, flip it over, read the price tag and toss the box back onto the shelf. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He didn’t know the price of a steamship ticket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But when the Central Valley started to dry up and the price of produce skyrocketed, people started to pay attention. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Granny always said, “Ask the price exactly as if you intend to pay.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Tyler paid a price for that letter, though the price is hard to define. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Let her flay half my face, it will be a small price to pay for her consent to the Dornish marriage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Let us begin, then. Let us commence. Let us undertake to establish what it is that you hope to achieve or acquire, what it is that I may provide to you for this yet-to-be-determined price.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “The price of one of Min’s vases—two oxen, a horse, and your first-born son!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “I bet you saw my books and thought they’d fetch a big price, right? But you could sell a thousand of them and never make enough to pay off what you owe.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “That some extravagant prices were paid, we admit,” wrote Jones and Allen, “but how came they to be demanded?” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Ned had played and lost, and his men had paid the price of his folly with their life's blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Not me! Your pa's put a price on this head o' mine. No, thank you, Prince! I don't fancy doing a jig from the end of a rope." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z When there were no futons and no duvets, the price of an ice cream cone was five cents. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When Roosevelt climbed into his canoe, looking it over, he could see that all their hard work had come at a price. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Nobody in their house is religious, but for some reason, that’s what came to her lips when she saw the price. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z But there was a price on her head, as a result of which she’d been isolated, overprotected, and largely friendless, even while a teenager at Hampden. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But then I considered the price I’d have to pay later with Mother. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He told me how hard times were, and that it looked like a man couldn’t get a fair price for anything he raised. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Trust me, kids, these are as fine as any orb you’d buy in the Light Market, and I’ll give ’em to you at half the price!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Ben, the youngest brother, was licking a black crayon and marking prices on soap-flake boxes when they walked in. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you think you can sell it for a higher price on your own, be my guest. It’s going to take a long time,” the pawnbroker said to Nali. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z With no other food coming into the city, the price offish was ten times what it had been before the war, and still rising. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Of the two, Frederick was the more anxious to get hold of it, but he would not offer a reasonable price. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But they paid a price for this union. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted my brother to love me again at any price. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “They were getting into the cornfield. They brought a good price — two hanks of wool for a new cape.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Can you give me your best price, please?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Shadrach, however, was very far away and was a part of the price which the battle of Gettysburg had cost. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Speak no ill of the dead. The prince paid a ghastly price for what he did.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were more concerned with price—it should be affordable—and that it have the number of rooms they needed, including a study for Charles, as well as quarters for servants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Prince of Dragonflies loved Jenny of Oldstones so much he cast aside a crown, and Westeros paid the bride price in corpses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Whom had she defied with that scream, he wondered, and what price might she have paid for it? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Lieutenant thought he'd advise his Colonel to pay a pretty fancy price for such a choice beast. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe we are living in a moral universe. If we continue to demonstrate and pay the price, then we will succeed.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was so discouraged about the cabbages, it was easy to talk his price down. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can pay the price. Give me a face.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z South Koreans have paid close attention to the price tag of German unification. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When prices were higher, farmers sold their grain and repaid the government. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Okay, well, you know you have to divide, because, um, well, you want to figure out the price per ounce...because it says so right here.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z This would guarantee sales for the drug companies and motivate them to produce the drugs at cheap prices. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We knew to stay away from the kitchen, where they argued about politics, the price of ham hocks, whether or not his daughters were uppity, and which horse had won the trifecta. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A few secondhand mint-condition musical instruments like trumpets, trombones, congas, and tambourines were on display inside a glass case, their price tags sticking out like a tag on a dead man’s toe. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I look at the price tag on a simple shirt, and it’s nineteen dollars! Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I asked the price and counted my change twice. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The price of a hotel in Toronto, he said, even a second-rate hotel, is becoming offensive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As Gau told me this story, I had no difficulty at all seeing him back in Ashland, somehow convincing the seller to part with his beautiful home for a ridiculous price. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What price could anyone set for the joy and laughter and peace of mind I had given up? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hotchkiss charged an outrageous price for a moldy cheese, but there were no other cheese sellers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was about to try it on when he saw the price. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Good-hearted people paid a dear price for standing up for African-Americans’ equal rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "That was a lie you told yourself. You knew the price." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Well, uh, because the clothes I really want are out of my price range.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I like it, and it’s the perfect price.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Fifty thousand pounds in modern money, using a retail price index, but £725,000 in modern money using an average wage multiplier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’m constantly angling for the best price, the most attractive bundle of goods, the newest option. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “I didn’t twist anybody’s arm. They all came to me. They wanted the tickets, and I charged a fair price. If they didn’t think it was fair, they didn’t have to buy them.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Small price to pay to get airline tickets for you and Frankie.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z There was no stringiness in it and he knew that it would bring the highest price in the market. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “A banner year for strawberries. How are prices holding up?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “The price of water has gone up,” he says, getting defensive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The jeweler who gave him overflow work to do at half price sent in a couple of clocks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “You were chosen because you are young and strong. You sur-vived the long journey here. You will fetch a great price.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And Wang Lung, hearing this, felt his mouth suddenly dry and parched and his voice came from him in a whisper, “Silver, then! Silver and gold! Anything to the very price of my land!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "I am trying to set a price on one of the three living dragons in the world." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His own people could not buy from Onofre at those prices: they were used to paying five dollars, at the most a sawbuck, for a pickup load of pinon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will make Mambutu by tomorrow. I will take you as far as that. For a cheap price.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z To those who knew and worked with him, that was Jim to the core, and it was largely due to his efforts that prices had fallen so much. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Tom, for instance, didn’t even know the price of pork and its probable trend. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For friendships acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of spirit are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper time cannot be spent. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Haggling over prices was another Persian Social Cue, one I had observed when I went with Mom to the Persian Grocery back in Portland. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In the country’s largest cities, otherwise prosaic services have been transformed into status symbols simply because of the price tag. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Those companies that did make MDR drugs could pretty much name their own price. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Beans running fine and prices good, so the Indians could be, must be, wrong. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z It was best to go as late in the year as you could, because the closer to winter it was, the scarcer beef was and the higher the price, you could get. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby’s funds were meager, but the good doctor would often give him a discount price, a policy he shared with absolutely no one else. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “And is he behaving like a man that will deny his child? Aunty told me he’s even talking about coming to pay her bride price.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t, though, and we couldn’t find a buyer at a decent price w'hen we divorced, so instead he said he’d buy me out and stay on until he got the right price for it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Colored folks who’d broken some unspoken rule, gotten uppity and acted above their station, and paid the price for such an error with their lives. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The state of the crops, the price of fat cattle, the mysterious ailments of swine, I relish them all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But that year, the price the grain elevator co-op paid for a bushel of corn was only about $1.45. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Really? Well, let’s just say that’s true. What’s it got to do with you or me or the price of potatoes ?” “My father’s in jail,” I said, “for sinking that boat.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z They had a reputation for high prices and outdated hardware, but their connections were supposed to be fast, reliable, and lag-free. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Bark? Yes. This is Nimbus. I want you to sell all my shares in the shuttle port. Yes, all of them. I have a hunch the price is about to take a severe dive.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They went to the post office; Ron pretended to be checking the price of an owl to Bill in Egypt so that Harry could have a good look around. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z But I did not feel that being honest was worth the price of starvation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that he had the longest list of people waiting to grab the shack at any price. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you just raise the price instead of lowering it?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The pages were glued on with wood paste and randomly selected: a wall might sport an ad for medicine next to an article on the price of eggs. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It promised power, freedom, speed, adventure...all for the low, low price of $499.95. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Fadi took in the desolate junction, trying to imagine bustling streets, shops overflowing with stacks of gleaming paper, customers haggling over prices. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He had always had mixed feelings about this, but he had come to accept it as the price of keeping his country safe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z If the price of bread goes up 6 percent, that’s no reason to suspect the price of yachts will go up by 6 percent as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That freedom was won at a hard price and if it requires a hard price to retain it... we are able . . . and quite willing to pay it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For my escape this was a price I was willing to pay. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll figure something out with that too. Starr, show him how to do the price stickers.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Of course, the ground was thick black mud, but that seemed to be the price you paid for burn morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Time and again Pocock explained that he was desperate for business but could not reduce prices: “No one who has ordered a boat this year has asked for it. They know they are worth it.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “That’s right, halfpenny. Yes, sir, empty head still pays full price.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He visits the dealer frequently, despite the rising prices, and buys one bottle after another after another. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt staggered to think that he had been walking about with the price of the Shire under his jacket. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Give me the money and I will go to Mama Onitsha. She is authentic. She will sell you Gowon’s dirty pant if you pay the right price.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Auntie Lindo nodded her head, as if the color were worth this price. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, no one ratted on Cole Matthews without paying the price. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “What they do here has no bearing on the price of tea in China,” he finally says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Often, the price is high because only one company makes it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The price tag dangles, pointing to my rump. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As it warmed my hands and bubbles of froth tickled my lips, I knew it was worth the price. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “So a judge does something they don’t like and we pay the price by sitting in traffic?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z If each of the ten items needed for the manufacture of something or other has risen 8 percent, the total price has risen just 8 percent, not 80 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By said, “Don’t sweat it, punk. The way I figure it one or two of them stupid little monsters ain’t a real high price for you to pay to get someone to play with you.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And, as the pricing was continued, three things began to happen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Admittedly, Anker was getting the services of a talented musician for a bargain price, but it was a deal I was happy to make. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One of rising gas prices, another of a shooting in East Oakland, and then a piece on the upcoming city council election. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Because of the price on the head he had been dropped on, he had to be spirited out of Ireland via cargo ship from Galway. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Your personality—the real you inside—was the price of beauty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In central Java so many were killed that the price of a cat more than doubled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The rain...the truck...the tomatoes...the price of gasoline...and all the while Shiloh lays low in my lap, tail between his legs, shaking like a window blind in a breeze. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Over each one hovers its name in gold letters, along with its starting bid price. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If prices were too high, the government sold some of the grain from its storehouses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “How are you going to lose out on this amazing opportunity? Almost no one has this opportunity! And for this incredible price.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The price to Bayonne had been fixed at a hundred and fifty pesetas. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “But honestly, I don’t see what your master’s bad mood has to do with the price of butter.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the case of the car salesmen, their decision to quote an outrageously high price to women and blacks alienated people who might otherwise have bought a car. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Small price to pay to avoid getting the switch. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Immediately, the price of the company’s stock began sinking like a stone. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sharp introduced the first low- priced fax machine in 1984, and sold about 80,000 of those machines in the United States in that first year. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You could get a pound of ground beef for the price of two of those yogurts. And they’re so small. I ate one and it was gone in three bites.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z These colors and shapes make it fun and easy to play with numbers, and I can find patterns in anything from the stock market to baseball games to the price of cereal. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When I first moved to New York, I shared a reasonably priced two-bedroom apartment half a block from the Hudson River. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z And everywhere there are signs with prices for the great jumble of items waiting to be bought. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Turtle returned to her calculations, multiplying numbers of shares times price, adding a broker's commission, trying to total the sums to the ten thousand dollars they had to spend. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Others believed that if it did work and prices fell, the drugs would become too widely available. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Gold for gruel, and boys... a cruel price. Whatever happened to that sweet lad I knew?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Would she have to hear the price of every nail that went into those boards, and every single nail the finest that money could buy? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I never realized the price you were paying for that mask you were wearing. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I said I didn’t care whether we got a good price for the house or not. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Where you know your family is the one thing without price. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted to get some ideas about pricing and marketing and make sure there was general support for the concept. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It is a case of claustrophobia, he feels as though he is suffocating here and wants to get out at any price. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “But she paid a price for it, and a terrible one at that.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z More of my pictures sell, for higher prices. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The Yoruba man is there helping his brother, but you Igbo people? I ga-asikwa. Look at you now quoting me this price.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I want him to organize against high prices,” Nealson told his wife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All summer prices climbed higher and higher and food got scarcer and scarcer. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We would pay a small price, though; we could go to school as long as we kept ourselves covered in public. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And then, inevitably, he would pay a price. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem with this view was that it meant abandoning the idea that the universe was created out of nested spheres—a high price to pay, and one that few were prepared to contemplate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “But we’ve paid a fair price already. He’s getting paid good money,” the husband said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z One day of such reports was all that Victarion Greyjoy could stomach; he paid the gold price for food and water, though it shamed him, and took his ships back out to sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Every time her name was mentioned everything went up in price, which was so backward because she wanted everything to go down in price. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He brought in a college-educated manager—Mr. Devotee Dantzler, a Mississippi gentleman—to make certain prices were kept fair and no miner was gouged. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When Will Hamilton raised chickens and his hens began to lay, the price of eggs went up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Turned out he’d been cheating folks for years, shorting their coffins and burial plots by six inches to a foot while charging full price. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They waited in their chairs until the pearls came in, and then they cackled and fought and shouted and threatened until they reached the lowest price the fisherman would stand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Polyneices had been given burial at the price of his sister’s life; his soul was free to be ferried across the river and find a home among the dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The owner, Robin Coyle, offered a lower price for people displaced by the storm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The prices at the emporium had gone up again, he observed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Fine goddess, Athena. A shame she pledged never to marry. All right, half-blood. I can tell you what you want to know. But there is a price. I need a favor done.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The difference is that one will be splurging and then play on a public course while the other will not blink at the price and tee off at a private country club. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But my family paid a terrible price, perhaps too dear a price for my commitment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I continued to study until two or three A.M. each night, believing it was the price I had to pay to earn God’s support. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After staring at it, Rick spent a few more minutes staring grimly at the price tag. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Of course, nothing is free in this world, and my pardon comes with a small price.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The auction is almost done, having narrowed to two users, but this time I stand by as an onlooker, watching behind the security bots as the price continues to climb. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “But you can use it to make a different type of emitter for sympathy lamps. You get a bluish light instead of the ordinary red. A little easier on the eyes. Fetch outrageous prices.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Luke made it over to Jen’s only once in all of February, and twice in March, when Dad began driving around looking for the best seed corn prices. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He wore half a dozen gold watches on each arm, and a zebra-patterned cowboy hat with a price tag dangling from the brim. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Merchants demanded that the Osage pay “special”—that is, inflated—prices. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Whatever Kasigi was thinking—if he was thinking—I was the one paying the price. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Should someone demand the previously agreed-upon price, he or she was accused of trying to fleece a poor immigrant woman with a small, struggling business and a child to feed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Surely it was more than happy coincidence that the price of admission—“fifty cents, straight up,” remembers one former bug boy—was precisely equal to the pay for galloping a horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "Good man. Eight pesetas for the two. The lowest price." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She’d check the price of train tickets or see if one of their uncles could drive out to get them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In fact, so-called differential pricing was standard in the world of large drug companies; Americans paid more for their products than people in any other country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Are you willing to pay such a price for conformity? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She had also said that the money she would get for the car would pay only for Chima’s ticket, which was half the full price of a ticket. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z One group of mutual fund companies let preferred customers trade at preferred prices, and another group was charged with hiding management fees. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I had to tell him about the high price and that I had planned to be argued down. He didn’t seem to care either way.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.’ Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The right price bought space on deck to lay a bedroll or perhaps pitch a small tent. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Stock is just flying off the shelves at prices so low you won’t believe your feed! Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One Saturday, not even having collected the price of the doors, he fell into a desperate confusion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z President Wingfield says it will sell at a very good price because it is used to make medicines. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Nine dollars a bale, some said, if you grew your own; eleven dollars if you had a white friend to carry it up for pricing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen immersion rigs were available, of varying quality and price. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z "You knew what I was buying, and you knew the price, and yet you let me pay it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Each of these items, too, must be returned to its precise place, matched by color, pattern, price, and size. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We have to know all about Sanctifying Grace, a pearl of great price, bought for us by Jesus in His dying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Not our cow, but Tam’s — Tam Bywater’s cow — mangy, ribs showing, and breathing like bellows, a beast not worth the price of its hide. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Negotiating with Mama over my wardrobe has been way more stressful than haggling over prices in the market in Pakistan. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “What a price to have paid for Hitler and his madmen!” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The Exchanges, with their system of tokens as currency, had given us a keen eye for pricing up anything we produced. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z No natural light, of course, but that was a small price to pay for privacy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “He said he’d pay a hundred and fifty a ticket. I told you the price would only go up. Didn’t I tell you?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “The Crow’s Eye swore this hom would bind dragons to my will. But how will that serve me if the price is death?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z How much food would be brought to market if he insisted that only preplague prices be charged? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I could see the wheels in his mind turning, trying to calculate how heavy a price he could make me pay and still have the masters vote in his favor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Divide thirty-five dollars by, say, three weeks, minus Boseman’s share, and the lost bounty was a very small price to pay for silence and a restful mind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When she returned, the dealer sold her the girl with the finding chant at my mother’s price. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z From these he produced the first calculations of life expectancy for different age groups, and so the first reliable figures which could provide a basis for pricing life insurance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Look at these prices!” cried Eye, who seemed ready to faint again, but the maitre d’ insisted on serving them for free. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They usually featured easy credit and inflated prices. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He realized that the artisan who carved it probably received only a fraction of the sale price for his labor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Desdemona would have felt no more ashamed had she herself been for sale, displayed naked on the green sofa, a price tag hanging from her foot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I knew what a tremendous price had been paid by the “innocents”—my friends—in the name of freedom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “In your stables,” Taran said, “I saw hammers and iron bars. Will you grant us the use of them? Or,” he added bitterly, “must we pay still another price?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Then she dusted the shelves and arranged the leftover potions and lotions, selling Haldar’s old inventory at half price. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Losher’s redeemed the stale bread from the dealers and sold it at half price to the poor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Human spines, knees, necks and arches paid the price. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Has he been telling you stories? Has he promised to give all my precious cargoes away for half price?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “There is no price for a man,” I answered passionately this time. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Frogs were cash as far as Doc was concerned, the price was standard and Lee had a double profit. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The price of food doubled and doubled again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen men die all his life, and death was the luck of the chance, the price you eventually paid. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the price of what I’d wanted for so long. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Jones was outraged a little later when the price of Coca-Cola went up from one to two frogs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His competitors soon had their own rolling machines—although Duke had worked out a special arrangement with the machine's makers guaranteeing him a rate 25 percent under the best price charged any other manufacturer. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And why does sticking an alligator on a shirt raise the price eighty-five bucks? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Cooter,” Pa said, “today your lucky day, son. You’s ’bout to get two shows for the price of one. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I watch in silence as they haggle in Urdu over the price of something I don’t want. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The next day at work, I was pricing cans. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He must also determine lobola, the bride- price, which is paid by the groom to the bride’s family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They called him Dirtyhands because there was no sin he would not commit for the right price. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Still, it was a small price to pay for something I’d dreamed about for most of my life. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And I was about to pay the ultimate price for my hubris. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Like I said, I paid my price with him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell your friends to buy tickets. They’re now on sale in the student activities room. The price is seventy-five cents for students and one dollar for adults.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z But if we’ll buy more of something even if the price hasn’t been lowered, then what’s to stop supermarkets from never lowering their prices? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Officer Delinko was left alone to ponder the object lying on the linoleum tile—toothy, scaly, and lifelike, except for the $3.95 price sticker glued to its snout. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’ve laid so much fiber in the ground that they’ve basically commoditized themselves. They are going to get into massive price wars with everyone and it’s going to be a disaster.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z This is where she’d smile and change the subject to the price of silver polish or white rice. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And I repeat: The price of the liberation of the white people is the liberation of the blacks—the total liberation, in the cities, in the towns, before the law, and in the mind. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z It’s an expense, but maybe they think the price of appearing to be benevolent rulers instead of tyrants has a cost benefit—it’s cheaper than bullets and burying bodies. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It was the first meal of the prices being doubled for the fiesta, and there were several new courses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I rein over to the kitchen cabinet and got the jug bottle of Amaretto with the red $23.99 price sticker right on the paper label. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey read the prices before she read the menu. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Many others had paid the price of their beliefs before me, and many more would do so after me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z WorldCom and Global Crossing fabricated billions of dollars in revenues to pump up their stock prices. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was going to pay the price for that for a while. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The policy would also protect farmers from going bankrupt if prices fell too much. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Half price for children under six weeks old!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The secondhand dealers had been prowling around for weeks, like wolves, offering humiliating prices for goods and furniture they knew many of us would have to sell sooner or later. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The amount varies depending on the prices of oil but in recent years has usually amounted to a few thousand dollars. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The girl replied, “She didn’t sell it for the money. She would have shown her evidence if she really wanted a big price. She sold it for the fun of it. For excitement.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z You’d sell a bag of nails for a shilling, and when you went out to buy some more you’d find that the price had gone up to two shillings. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The deal is, this is really two birthdays for the price of one, because Freak the Mighty is almost a year old. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Other types of insurance, including health and automobile and homeowners’ coverage, were certainly not falling in price. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I remember the woman who explained the pros and cons and price differences of various brands, how she measured my foot and told me I have an exceptionally narrow heel. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When, in the time of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, we refer to a ‘public’ concert, it is not in the modern sense of a gathering open to absolutely anyone, for the price of a ticket. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “IDA,” said the Dutchman at the meeting, “is going to do everything we can to lower prices, by exploring generic manufacturers.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Rising incomes, flattening prices, and easily available credit have given so many Americans access to such a wide array of high-end goods that traditional markers of status have lost much of their meaning. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Demand was so great that the price skyrocketed from ten cents to two dollars and fifty cents per copy in New York City. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At first people had laughed at his prices. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Walmart, which was then the nation’s largest grocery retailer, had joined our effort by pledging to cut the amount of sugar, salt, and fat in its food products and to reduce prices on produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Gifts go up in price the longer the Games continue. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I look at the prices on the menu. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The burden of ownership means everything has a price. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Sometimes the seller would just laugh at the buyer, but Hanako didn’t know if that was just to get the buyer to offer a higher price. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In all the tales, the price for a life was a life — to bring back the dead, a newborn child would be given up. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the price is up,” I said, shrugging. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Out in the Midwest the railroads were intact and carried the farmers’ grain and stock to market; trade was good, and prices high. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z She informed me that a double room at the front was available, though I was welcome to it for the price of a single. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Leo wondered if that price would ever be paid. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some shop was having a clearance sale on mobile phones, and they were selling them at such a ridiculous price I knew Sizwe and I could flip them in the hood for a profit. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “He would not sell at any price, and I don’t blame him,” he said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She looks at the price sticker and frowns. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “This will hurt,” he warned her, “but pain is the price of power. Do not move.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Well, a lot of people think so. Now, do you know the present price of beans? I mean, what can you sell a hundred sacks for in Salinas?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "You'll need someone to share your burdens. I assure you, my price would be modest." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Or if a restaurant was closed, he'd appear out of nowhere and offer to make people lunch for half the price. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z And each of the side panels declared: “The best work at the best prices.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z The ones too young and too small to bring a decent price were going to an auction for feeder pigs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Car salesmen even have a particular word to describe the customers who pay the sticker price. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was the price I had to pay, Birdie said, for living with two former thespians. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Or,” I add, “the price of turkey in Denmark.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z After he names his final price, I pull out the wad of rupees from my purse, and Zohra counts some and hands them over in defeat. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The pages make a lovely crackling sound as I study the treatment price list from her generation. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In today’s market, the estimated auction price for the original score sheet is $100,000. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally she heard a satisfying click, and the window swung open on a deserted office, its walls covered in maps marked with trade routes and chalkboards listing share prices and the names of ships. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He can remember prices, to the cents, of cans of coffee he bought ten years ago. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “My last bottle, and prices are sky-high at the moment. Still, it might be reusable.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Humanity sins but it’s God’s Son who pays the price? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Interest, he said, and all the fertilizer and stuff we got from the general store—things he paid for—the prices, he said, went up. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The exchange rate is a farce, the price of carrots indefensible, duplicity lives everywhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Once the bugs were worked out of the Bonsack machines, Duke churned cigarettes out of his factories at an unprecedented rate—823 million in 1889—and at a price his competition couldn’t match. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She also responded to the commercial offers, but for reasons of his own, Bobby showed almost no interest in them, whatever the price offered. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Liyana still had to translate prices into dollars in her head for them to make sense to her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It is worth noting that these websites only listed prices; they didn’t even sell the policies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Then the price had gone up, and he found he would have to go over into every one else’s dollar to make up the full amount for May Belle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry. Same price. This is my patriotic deed today. I’m making the world safe for democracy.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “A fair price,” I said, “and no haggling.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, the layout is about the only thing she can control, since the clothes and at least the starting prices are all determined by the home office in Arkansas. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite a good deal of opinion to the contrary, an item whose price has been increased by 50 percent and then reduced by 50 percent has had a net reduction in price of 25 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s a hefty price compared to the same meal from the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I won’t say the Georgia Mountain had food I would travel for, even within Hiawassee, but it was certainly reasonably priced. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He is the rightful owner of the space but was persuaded to let me hang out for an hour or two for a price of my one dollar. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Chacko said that the high incidence of insanity among Syrian Christians was the price they paid for Inbreeding. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The price they’d get for the offspring of such a stud alone. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Francie read them all avidly, then sold them at half price to the neighborhood stationery store and put the money in Mama’s tin-can bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "You blush red as a maid, Theon. A question was asked. Is it the gold price you paid, or the iron?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She gets a discount and charges you the full price and interest on top. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Wes wondered where people like him were supposed to go once they’d been priced out of the old neighborhoods, once the land changed hands right under their feet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z That is why he sold the vast Louisiana Territory to Jefferson for the bargain price of just fifteen million dollars. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Auntie Ying mentions she bought yarn at half price, somewhere out in the avenues. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “And must return the property or the price of the property plus a fine of one silver talent.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I want you all to come, can’t let Beth off at any price, and nobody shall worry her. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Double last year’s price but John was confident. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Marco starts to say he can tell she received quite a good price for the ring, but then there is a knock on the door of the flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z For flat runs, he had the Norden bombsight, an extremely sophisticated analog computer that, at $8,000, cost more than twice the price of the average American home. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Right, sir. What price?” the third officer asked. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z This was less than the price of a Big Mac. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Two farmers, each leading this year’s cow, passed each other, shouting prices. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl said, “We don’t buy from Sidney’s or from any animal dealer. All our purchases are from private parties, and the prices we pay aren’t reported.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “It can be very seductive, very seductive. But the price to live it is severe.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They didn't tell us kids about the divorce till after it happened, and when they finally mentioned it, they claimed it was a small price to pay if it ended our immigration struggles. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z To-night, at least, I would be her guest, as I was her child: my mother would lodge me without money and without price. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “How many cakes? The price of sugar is still high. How about apple bread instead? That’s cheaper to make.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Up came our truck’s hood and out came the battery, which the fishermen would carry across the Kwenge to the ferry—for a price, of course. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Confined and isolated, Mudd would wait to learn what price he would have to pay for his part in hiding Lincoln’s assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I search out Ellie, whom I find shooting out new labels from the pricing gun, and ask if there’s anything special I need to be doing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z So naming a price — one that spares possible enemies — angers them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z So they would have to turn to the English, who would surely raise their prices. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They would still live upstairs, snug in their nests behind the baseboards, growing fat on crumbs from all the food skiers smuggled into their rooms to avoid the dining-room prices. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z So when Mr. Abbas asked about the prices, she said, “Ten dollars each.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Before the Old Lord he heard himself saying and to the Old Lord’s agent, “Count me as anyone else. What is the fair price? I have it in my hand.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z What’s to stop them from cheating us with meaningless “everyday low price” signs every time we walk in? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "What's risky about having your nephew from the village visit? You want your money, you'll get it when you bring him back—or give him to me now for a quarter of the price." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “It has everything to do with the price of butter!” he said through his teeth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The benefits of the new meritocracy do come at a price. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In the long run, however, these cheap calories come with a high price tag: obesity, Type II diabetes, heart disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In stores, he did not look first at the prices of things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Axelroot told Father that food goes for the price a gold in Stanleyville, but it wasn’t gold in the little cloth bags. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know exactly how much it was, and the price of any gift in the arena was exorbitant. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After a few paces she turns back and sees that he’s still standing there, bent down to see if there’s a price tag on the bottom of the shoe. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The price of accidentally running over a seventeen-year-old girl who was clearly not paying attention is considerably less than the price for his own daughter, killed by a texting driver. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The price was too high; he had too much to lose. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I think I was always, somehow, aware of the price. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And the dealer heard a little grumble go through the crowd as they heard his price. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z It was tiresome having to smile and act interested, especially if they were chatty, but that was a small price to pay for a meal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Now, however, though the town is slightly tattered—Ossining is far from the most desirable address in Westchester—housing prices have pushed out practically all state correction officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that the more outspoken Victoria Woodhull became, the more the National Woman Suffrage Association paid the price. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In order to recoup his costs, he set out a cash basket and a sign with the suggested price. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “The Crochan is destroyed, and with it Arawn’s power to add to the number of his Cauldron-Born. It is one of the gravest defeats Arawn has ever suffered. But I know the price you paid.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He arrived amid insults, spat upon, accused of having accelerated the war in order to sell it for a better price. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We could get a pretty little price for a terrapin of that size. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been so confident that I had failed to put aside the price of train fare home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z You’d think I’d get some slack on the price since my face is on the cover of so many magazines, but that only makes the hobgoblin charge me double. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He had sold a piece of his land at a fine price and he was in Salinas to celebrate, and celebration meant the whole shebang. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At the time, Leo had had no choice but to use it if he wanted to save his friends—but Nemesis had warned that her help came with a price. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Inside, the price has been snipped away on the diagonal. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He got everything he wanted, but at a horrible price. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I also give them a stack of clothing from America, and they’re most excited by the price tags and labels, which get posted as artwork throughout the village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I listened to all the sounds of the market, vendors calling out prices, children laughing and crying, the rush of dried spices, beans, and rice being poured into bags. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I'm only gonna explain how to use this price gun one time, and you better pay attention.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It was easy, ’cause in the ’hood, for the price of a backpack, you can get a gun, a couple of rounds, and probably even have some money left over. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But when news of the events at Bree came to Tom’s ears, he sent them to Mr. Butterbur, who thus got five good beasts at a very fair price. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “If the dragon girl pays a small price, the magician girl can get knowledge vital to her quest.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “No used underwear,” she said, “just some things. And look on the bright side. Now you won’t have to waste so much time comparing price tags with your friends.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z And he knew what was the fair price for every one of his animals. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your prize? Risk your life? We have lost life and shed blood for the cauldron. Yes, a heavy price has been paid, heavier than you know, Prince of Pen-Llarcau.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “I am here to remind you all of the price of breaking the law. Tell me, child, are the nights dark here in Namwon?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Even prices higher than any in memory couldn’t tempt farmers into the city with fresh food. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Indeed. I am here at your service, prepared to offer a fulfillment of your wishes, at a price to be negotiated to our mutual satisfaction.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Though Sidhean might grant her wish, she knew there would be a price to pay. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1890s, the price of cane sugar was declining, and the planters who owned sugar fields in British Guiana were on the edge of bankruptcy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Of course, there’ll be other houses. But not like this one, not at this price. We’ll never be able to afford one like this. I guess I really didn’t expect to find anything.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She showed me the taxi receipt, and I assured her that this was indeed the correct price. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I want all of you to meet some expatriates. They are looking for land and I can arrange for them to buy from your father at five or six times the price.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z By seeming to be friendly with Pilkington he had forced Frederick to raise his price by twelve pounds. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z We spent the day wandering around the neighborhood, finding restaurants and cafes where we could eat for an affordable price. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He never bothered to explain his prices to them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was beautiful of course; I knew that, and those chairs and tables probably without price, but for all that I had no wish to linger there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “This is a violation of public trust. Nobody should get advance news of price changes.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But that was the price she had to pay for not letting her children see them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z From his PhD research on Korean pharmaceutical companies, Jim knew that the price of a drug to the public often had little to do with the costs of manufacturing or distributing it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Their owners shouted, plying their wares; the customers shouted, bargaining for the best prices. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z If that was the price of a magic sword, it was more than he cared to pay. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He and Min agreed on a price for the labor, and Crane-man began to weave the container under the eaves of Min’s house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They bargained for a while and then the young woman shouted, “If you want to rob people, then do so. Don’t say you are selling garri for that price.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She went for two hundred and eighteen dollars in a hasty exchange, a drop in price occasioned by the realities of the local market. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The goddess had warned him of a great price for her help—as great as losing an eye. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t hold out for the best price. All we need is enough to hop a ship out of Oxscini. Doesn’t matter where.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “It’s a fair price for a nice fat little heifer. Thee’s kept her well.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Now he’s finally stable, and I wanted to get away so badly I didn’t think about the price tag. I’m blowing a lot of cash here I shouldn’t blow.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The price keeps going up; it’s already risen from 27 to 33 guilders. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Or consider the automobile dealership: a salesman does his best to obscure the car’s base price under a mountain of add-ons and incentives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Sorting out the multiple transactions, prices, and motives would be an administrative nightmare. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It began at the feet, especially as the strangers were dressed in outlandish clothes like knights-in-armour, and it mastered the texture, the construction, the articulation and the probable price of their sabathons. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t look like a very friendly place, but Neil summed it up: “It’s worth the price of the trip.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He would sing the glory of Hrothgar’s line and gild his wisdom and stir up his men to more daring deeds, for a price. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It was his job to price the unwanted and unexpected. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z If you didn’t have the image of our Dear President on the wall—dressed in his three-piece suit and clutching a flywhisk—you would pay a hefty price. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “America, as it should be, once more. What price can one put on that?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In late March of 1862, coffee had reached the unheard of price of seventy cents a pound, and the papers predicted that it would rise even higher. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Hate to split up the money, but if it means a higher price for a fresh fish, it’d be worth it, right? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She keeps an honest, one price house, sells no hard liquor, and permits no loud or vulgar talk in her house. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The price of a liter of rum keeps most of them, with their monthly coupons and meager earnings, stone-cold sober. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z She keeps an honest, one price house, sells no hard liquor, and permits no loud or vulgar talk in her house. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On cement-block walls, there were signs for bars, nightclubs, hairdressers, and even doctors’ offices, with the prices charged for seeing patients painted on the walls. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As Tommy Lacks stood by his crop praying for a good price, Henrietta and the cousins ran around the tobacco piles, talking in a fast gibberish to sound like the auctioneer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “You know there’s a price,” said he, reaching under his mattress and pulling forth another volume. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “His Grace is dreaming, but I cannot sleep. On the morrow 1 must bathe in blood. The price of peace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Bribes and gifts to officials such as Boyle were routine, while the nature of the work gave him inside information about land that became available at knockdown prices. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I paid his price too readily, but I was anxious to be on my way. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Pong noticed that the customers changed along with the prices. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z His operas would be for the common people, at sensible, knock-down prices. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And I priced their palms, two for a dollar. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He gave the price of twenty oxen for her, kept her as kindly in his house as his own wife, though, for the sake of peace, he never touched her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This forced us to raise our prices; then prices would go up again, and we’d have to raise them some more. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A dress whose price has been “slashed” 40 percent and then another 40 percent has been reduced in price by 64 percent, not 80 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The best gifts speak to the heart and don’t need to come with a hefty price tag.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She might tell this buyer about a house nearby that just sold for $25,000 above the asking price, or another house that is currently the subject of a bidding war. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The price tag was $14,600 a year, but Elizebeth was sure that the expanded unit would improve the Treasury’s bottom line. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I’m not here to cause trouble, mind you. I’m not here because of the price on your head.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But their contributions to the war effort were unequal, with Russia paying the heaviest price for Hitler's aggression. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I did not like selling to him, although he paid me a better price. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Very well, Wonka,” he said importantly, taking out a wallet full of money, “how much d’you want for one of these crazy squirrels? Name your price.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z His team’s job is to break up the black markets that have sent prices soaring. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, he circled the three cars on display, casually examining the tags which listed the specifications and equipment, as well as the price, of each vehicle. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z She had found a stack of sticky notes and priced items anywhere from one cent to three hundred thousand dollars. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Chickens clucked and geese honked, customers argued about the price of pears, and children ran everywhere. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he recognizes Doktè Paul and he’s not so insistent on his price after Farmer points out, “And if you get sick, I won’t ask you for a hundred dollars.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “We’re about four hundred guys in the school. That means everybody’s got to sell fifty boxes. Usually, the guys have a quota of twenty-five boxes each to sell and the price is a dollar.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She gives you one price, which you can take or leave, but it's a fair price. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He brought together representatives from multinational drug companies, independent middlemen and distributors, nonprofit organizations—almost anyone who might have an impact on drug pricing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Show him how to do the price stickers.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Inaccurate data from countries with high incidences of MDR have made it difficult for pharmaceutical companies to meet demand for these drugs consistently, and therefore market prices have fluctuated. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Out of love for Lyra, Lanre had sought knowledge where knowledge is better left alone, and gained it at a terrible price. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Many guardians would purchase, for their wards, goods from their own stores or inventories at inflated prices. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And: What do you suppose the already depressed real estate prices would be tomorrow morning? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He bought a rig and drove around, meeting the earlier comers, talking of soil and water, climate and crops, prices and facilities. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “He took away your soccer season, and the price turns out to be one dino park.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z She read everything she could find: trash, classics, time tables and the grocer’s price list. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I let him keep you on one condition: that he take the job as warden of Namwon, so that he would never forget the price of turning away from the law. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He tells Mr. Heggarty how he fought, where, when, how he had to be smuggled out of Ireland because of the price on his head, how he was raising his sons to love Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Hassan’s prices and work were always the best for miles around. The crooks who run the shops around here are spreading rumors about that shop already.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z "Is that all? Two fosterlings? That's a small enough price to—" "Lord Frey's son Olyvar will be coming with us," she went on. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “For once I wanted us to feel like millionaires. And if twenty cents can make us feel rich, it’s a cheap price to pay.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was a price below which they dared not go, for it had happened that a fisherman in despair had given his pearls to the church. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few weeks, however, the new system gained acceptance, as word spread about the low prices and good hamburgers. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z This food had never worn a label or bar code or price tag, and yet I knew almost everything there was to know about it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Blanca was raising a Brazilian rubber tree, a shy, squalid little bush whose one attraction was its price: it was sold by the leaf. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people would end up paying a dear price for their courageous stands against Governor Wallace and the Ku Klux Klan before the dust finally settled. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So there we were, comparing prices, and Mike says, “Look.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The harvests had been very poor, shop prices were higher than ever. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I might borrow your wagon and man for the drive to Newport, Pastor, I’d be grateful. These girls should bring a decent price at auction.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z In the glimmer of an instant, for the price of a 50-cent galloping fee he was probably never paid, Pollard lost the sight in his right eye forever. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom wrote to my gran, asking her to send the price of a train ticket, about thirty rand, to bring her home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The newspaper office was right across the street from the gin, and so the apparatus could be used when needed to receive cotton orders and check market prices. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Aw, sweetie. I wish I could. Tell you what. I’ll do one hundred, the friend price, because I wish we were best friends.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Breaking the law seems a small price to pay to get her to stay. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Dany was thirteen, old enough to know that such gifts seldom come without their price, here in the free city of Pentos. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “My father used to own a shop in this village. And my shop will live up to his motto—‘The best work at the best prices.’ Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of 1967 our rent was hiked; my father’s busfare was hiked; prices at the store were hiked; my father’s wage remained the same. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Upcars flashing past, their prices speaking to me in my head. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When people know about their food, they start considering quality and not just price. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Would they be able to remember tomorrow’s prices and make a fortune on the stock market? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat in silence until John jumped up, saying, “Awful price to pay for a ticket to heaven.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “I hope to get a fair price for it” said Grampa. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z A few ordered a tree set aside for the day; others stopped to price, inspect and conjecture. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But if he drops his price suddenly, the slaver will be suspicious. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Joyce bragged that the butchers “had a highly skilled trade and were high priced men.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was the boy who had not listened and who was now paying the price. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I could offer them good prices for liquor because we could get good prices for it: the officers didn’t care how much they paid for liquor. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I said I knew a man in Paris—a very wealthy paralytic, I said—who would pay M. Yoshoto any price at all for the picture. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The price, given her distress, was such as would not soon be met with elsewhere. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Stock prices and the dollar’s value dropped sharply as investors anticipated a national crisis. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It was clear now why the kidnapper had wanted to haggle over the price, why he wanted to feel like a businessman for once, and, alas, how he had known about Bithynios. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Dr. Howell said it was a side effect of my medications, and that a little weight gain was a small price to pay for emotional stability. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We could have sold our animals to zoos in India, but American zoos were willing to pay higher prices. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Because he valued her work, the shopkeeper had sold the sari to Maa for a good price. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She showed pictures and shared prices: the average cost for one was $1,995. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “A Maven is a person who has information on a lot of different products or prices or places. This person likes to initiate discussions with consumers and respond to requests,” Price says. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If a little accent modification is the price they have to pay to jump a rung of the ladder, then so be it—they say. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z That is the sweet truth bought at the price of so much bitter pain. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A terrible war that everyone believes will soon have been worth the price. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo had taken the fortune cookie out of his tool belt and turned it in his fingers, wondering what price he would have to pay if he broke it open. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “You should see how the prices of dried milk rise every day, as if somebody is chasing them.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z With a sharp sense of style, they stripped Joel Moskowitz’s shoe store of its higher- priced and more fashionable models, leaving only some orthopedic offerings and a few Florsheims. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But it was becoming clear that there could be a high price to pay. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “And what price do you ask for these ships?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If you have no money for health insurance—and the Hearthside’s niggardly plan kicks in only after three months—you go without routine care or prescription drugs and end up paying the price. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could get a better price for my old stockings. Every old man in America drags his rusty sword around and claims he ran it through a hundred British. It’s a piece of junk.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So all the corn the farmers grew was put on the market, driving the price down. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I have no cell phone, but somebody lends me one—for a price. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “These girls are a bargain at double the price. With your permission, might we increase our offer twofold?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Woolf felt the spectacle was worth the price of new paint and a furious agent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaving a spacious, reasonably priced one-bedroom in the middle of the month usually signified that someone had done something really bad. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But prices went right on climbing; paper money was worth less and less. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently getting what you want still comes at a price. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Our cafeteria had better options than the food court, and the prices were lower. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z He paid us a very good price, and with that money we hired a car to take us to the local train station where we would catch a train to Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price,” Lee said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I thought Jawad Sahib’s arrest would be good for everyone, but it turned out change, no matter how good and necessary, came with a price. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z This is the price we pay for the many benefits of the locked door. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In his correspondence with the boatbuilder, he threatened to buy his equipment from an English supplier, demanded price concessions, and insisted on design modifications if he were to buy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Bargains and trades are announced, social doings, prices of commodities, messages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will be the very goddess of humility, I am sure. But can you pay the price?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The vast majority were relegated to claiming races, rock-bottom events in which any competitor can be purchased for a set, low price before the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Theatre groups in towns and cities across the United States presented live dramas, comedies, and musicals at prices affordable to struggling families. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z We pop in and out of a bunch of other stores, sometimes just to feel the fabric and check the prices. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Sorry, the handshaking is a bad habit, price of the job.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Next to the sink sat a price board: Cut and style ten dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Others are smugglers, who circulate, offering, in a whisper, to take people over to the United States for a good price. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z His tobacco fetched a high price each year at the Auction Holdings Limited in Lilongwe, where the farmers sold their hundred-kilogram bales on the auction floor. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Soon you will face a problem you cannot solve, though I could help you...for a price. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It also made the case for why a space program—and its enormous price tag—was in the interest of every American, offering four arguments for the publics consideration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Babou glowered at the cashier and started arguing about the price of admission. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z But the price is navigating uncertainty and secrets that seem to keep spinning faster than she is. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I paid very low prices for peaches, carrots, and beets. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the websites don’t even list the prices—like they’re afraid to specify how much the things cost. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “You never pay the first price they tell you,” she instructed. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z After just half a day I knew I would never again complain about any price a farmer wanted to charge me for food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My mother offered the dealer half the price he named. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even before the dealership opened, it had made about seventeen sales for its line of cars, which ranged in price from $85,000 to $200,000. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow by looking at the graphs he was supposed to be able to tell what would happen to the price of a cup of coffee if there was a drought in Brazil. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z So if you come up with the money after the thirty days, you have to buy it back at a higher price. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z IDA specialized in driving down prices of essential drugs, the kind that the indigent sick need most urgently. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Fights broke out daily, haggling over prices, or bartering gone bad. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But the adventurers quickly realized their success had come at a price. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Two, that’s the same price they are at the store. Three, why you not in school?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The price of the vouchers goes from two hundred dollars to three hundred to five hundred dollars, and still no one is willing to surrender their ticket. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They had a legendary endurance, but there would be no avoiding the price, either. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The price you ask is beyond what any of us can pay.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Miners in Western Pennsylvania lost what little leverage they had gained and any hope of a new pay increase to cover the spike in prices over the last few years. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z It was such a different way of shopping than going to a store with price tags on the products! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My cousin could have gotten you a better one for a third of the price, Mirian tells her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Go see, but don’t say anything. Once the shopkeeper hears your English, the price will triple.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The average Nantucket house price last year jumped 26 percent, to $1,672 million, said H. Flint Ranney, a veteran real estate broker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “I’m letting you take it home for four-fifty. Believe me, my own mother-in-law shouldn’t have it for that price!” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, he wanted Madison to know that it came at a price: “Mr. A. and myself were cordial friends from the beginning of the revolution,” he explained. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “What can we figure? After all, nobody sets the price ’til June. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “So you still pay a price for your disobedience, but you get one more chance. I might be able to live with that. Seth?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much to them, but with food in such short supply I figured we could get a pretty good price for them if we could get them to a British commissary somewhere. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But Charlie charged the locals a fair price, and charged the brothers even less. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was obviously part of the price he had to pay if he wanted to be her boyfriend again. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The salesman was saying something about the quality of the gold and diamonds, and then, “Does the gentleman wish to know the price?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The industry has kept prices down in part by buying bigger ships, the better to accommodate a broader clientele. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She must notice Madoc’s absence, must be wondering what I meant when I spoke of a price. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “They’d refine it into medicine. It’s a powerful painkiller. The price won’t be nearly as good as if we went to the other sort of people, but still, half a loaf....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Stupidity has a price. You should show more care and wisdom next time.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And even as far away as Ithaka you’ve heard of Agamemnon—how he came home, how Aigisthos waited to destroy him but paid a bitter price for it in the end. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost like it was the price of admission. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The price of the meal was set at a deliberately hefty fifteen shillings to discourage those whose qualifications were merely cerebral. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This is war, this is what it looks like, this is the price of the Iron Throne. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z More rice, for the price of a river. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The price of chicken wings, the company’s bread and butter, had risen. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I expected Kilvin might have padded the price a little, which rankled my pride a bit, but I was in no position to look a gift horse in the mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z C.P. slowly realized the implications of his transformation, seeing in broad but terrifying strokes the price he was going to have to pay. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The lettuce was consigned to commission merchants in New York at a fine price. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And the clamor of the farmwives shouting the prices of their goods in the square was so much nicer than chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They were less friendly, too, unwilling to negotiate prices. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z All that can be had for an average of $1,500 a week per person, a price that has gone almost unchanged in fifteen years, Mathisen said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The national government placed him in the category of a bandit and put a price of five thousand pesos on his head. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She would hide them beneath her underwear until she could figure out a better place, and tomorrow she would call the bus station and ask the price of a one-way ticket to San Francisco. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z To them, a talent was not a great price to set themselves on such proud display. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Donald is not sure what the universe was trying to tell him by taking away his only daughter, but here is what he learned: no one can put a price on losing everything. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Wait until you see the prices! Believe me, it’s half what you pay on the avenues!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z What was happening with the black nurses was a classic example of demand exceeding supply, resulting in higher prices, and nothing more. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I don't get "insider" prices but my skills are good enough to earn respect from the sellers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But what could the former slaves dor1 Every Indian who accepted the paltry wages specified in the indenture contract lowered the price an African could charge for his labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There are always points or prices to calculate. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Here were out-of-town visitors from Omaha and Chattanooga, outraged over the price of their hot roasted chestnuts. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It was as well to go out early, otherwise you could never tell how much had already been taken by urchins, for dung was easy to sell and commanded a good price. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor of the Exchange would erupt into a flurry of trades, runners would spread the word throughout the city, and the price of goods, futures, and shares in outgoing voyages would rise or fall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Soon you will face a problem you cannot solve, Nemesis had said, though I could help you.for a price. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Ignatius had bought a large, elegant, limited edition of the English translation, and all fifteen dollars of its price hit Patrolman Mancuso in the head with the force of a dictionary. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s this got to do with the price of eggs in China, and you know exactly what I mean.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Though $8,000 sounds like a lot in Depression dollars, it was a relatively low price for a racehorse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This was an order, and basically the price of admission, as she was holding the hot dog roasting sticks behind her back as she spoke. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z As farmers produce more corn, the price falls even more! The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One student council meeting is a small price to pay for all of them. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Here three city blocks were crowded with vendors calling their wares while eager shoppers studied merchandise or haggled over weights and prices. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “There are boys who have already found holes in the wall, ways to get out. They can buy things on the other side. For a price,” Aunt Fela said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Kreuk uses the ration allowances of the dead to stock up on supplies, then resells them at higher prices. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “My blood price, he called it,” said Jon Snow, “but he will pay.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “No, when I put your new well down you paid my price.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "Look at the menu. Notice how there aren't any prices? I bet a Coke here is a couple of dollars." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We sat there watching as more and more people showed up and old men opened their stands and set out the products and price tags. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Wish I could, honey,” he told her, “but I can’t pay you girls more without raising prices and losing customers.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But it would have liked to touch them in the end, partly to be sure that they were real, partly to sum up the price of their clothes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The oversupply of houses depressed the real estate prices, which allowed poorer people to move in, and with poverty came crime, and with crime came more moving vans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Or the offer for a cheap price on a cruise. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z A quarter an hour was a decent take, and he was saving for third-class train tickets to the Mexican border, the price of a new life with his girl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Sidney’s catalogue simply listed the price at which the last transaction involving a raccoon had taken place. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Scowling, Snape said, “The Dark Lord does not expect Draco to succeed. This is merely punishment for Lucius’s recent failures. Slow torture for Draco’s parents, while they watch him fail and pay the price.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z At two o'clock Westing Paper Products sold at fifty-two dollars a share, its highest price in fifteen years. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold the items at twice the regular price, but the trip seemed worth the risk and expense. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But, like the Invisible Man in H. G. Wells, I discovered that my gift had its price, which took the form of, in my case as in his, a sort of mental darkness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I guess the promises made by Castro and Che of helping the less fortunate sounded so good at the time that losing some of your freedoms didn’t seem too high a price to pay. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I hate doing laundry, and a few pennies seems like a fair price for dealing with flea-infested blankets. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z With his hands on her shoulders, she could feel the pulsing of her blood within her as if it were rushing up to meet his skin, and the price did not seem so high. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “How are we supposed to wait—with all of you eating like starving hyenas? I suppose he plans to push up the price, the dirty child murderer!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But he held her steady and answered, “There is a price for everything, Aisling.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The school must have gotten a good price on journals. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z They begin haggling over a price like I've seen the women in jail do when someone has been able to smuggle in a thing from outside that everyone else wants. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But what would be the price for a day of freedom? Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now sugar prices were low, but when people found out how hard it would be to get sugar in the coming months, prices would soar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Aimee glanced across the menu to the prices as she was picking what she might want to eat. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z He had searched for horses in Abbot’s Ford and Rannish, offering outrageous prices for even the most broken-down animals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “If you tell them I sent you, they’ll give you the wholesale price.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “And do they have our bounties, like, broken down on a price list?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Could you take the price of the barrel then, sirs? If not the barrel itself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Yet that was a small enough price to pay for Bran's life. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Now he could offer Matthias more than freedom, but the price would be far higher than she had expected. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You do not believe me, so you must give me the necklace. I will not let her buy you for such a cheap price.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In a land where many women can’t read the prices in the markets, we did multiplication. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And one of the village women passing through, the one who gives me a good price on milk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z No wonder he had dropped the price so quickly and easily. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Second, the price of steel and other materials had been on the rise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This is how it worked: In times when prices were low, the government gave farmers loans so they could store, rather than have to sell, their crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had no idea if four thousand won was a fair price for his stolen rice, but he happily sold it and bought some crackers and cookies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z If Burger King and McDonald’s launch a price war to gain market share, they partly make up in volume what they lose in price. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z After a conference with some soldiers along the road, he became convinced that fruit was now bringing a higher price than white women in the city. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We have the forged passports, guaranteed, worth the price. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The dwarfs listened to Skirnir describe the commission, and they shivered, and they named their price. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The price always starts at five when it’s just sprinkling, then goes up to fifteen when it’s really pouring. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z At a school fund-raising auction, his parents bid on—and won at a crazy price—a prime parking spot next to the one reserved for Dr. Williams, the headmaster. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They don’t dare ask the price, but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it; but the others, for whom it is not important, they settle the price first as a matter of course. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z If the price of peace was the dissolution of the Union, many people felt that compensation lay in stopping human slaughter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tour of Italy comes at a price, I guess.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The Securities and Exchange Commission later said that those figures were “false and misleading,” in part because the sale price for the headquarters had been overvalued by as much as $40 million. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She began immediately haggling with Mama and Papa about the price of the cakes, even though they hadn’t said a word about even buying them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The agent, meanwhile, only lost $300—a small price to pay to ensure that she would quickly and easily lock up the sale, which netted her a commission of $6,450. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z My father never went along, having become an apostate at the age of eight over the exorbitant price of votive candles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Insufficient though it is, it still comes at a high price. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Few farmers dare come into town. They charge exorbitant prices for their wares, and get whatever they ask,” he said bitterly. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you go to the Villager tonight? Thirsty Thursday. Two for the price of one.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “For a fine dinner to celebrate. Come back to the coffeehouse a week from today, and we’ll watch the prices rise together.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I fished the emergency money Dad had given me from my pocket, figuring that a little extortion was a small price to pay to find the woman I’d crossed the Atlantic to meet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Tell me the right price for this. No ripping me off.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “It is of no further use to you. It holds a great deal of importance to me. I will not be dissuaded. Name your price.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “She is not your madam, my child. She is just a woman who is living with a man who has not paid her bride price.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Our family allowed some romance, paying adult brides’ prices and providing dowries so that their sons and daughters could marry strangers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Others offered her “unbreakable” coding and cipher systems—usually for a high price. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “One more basket will be a small price to pay if he is expected,” he answered. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I see myself sitting cross-legged like I am now, but I'm showing Khalil how to do the price stickers. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Although Amari could not understand the language of the white men, she soon began to recognize words they repeated often, such as “slave” and “price.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “So here is your business proposal, Mr. Buckminster. I propose to purchase Mrs. Cobb’s house from you outright. I’m prepared to offer you better than the market price.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He compares his newfound sense of color to tulip mania, when the Dutch were so obsessed with tulips that everyone wanted them and the price of bulbs skyrocketed. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But when the price dropped, the frantic search for oil in the Permian Basin, and all of Texas, quickly became much less attractive. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The complete price is $10,500, for two bedrooms, a large living room, kitchen, bath, and dining space, and five closets.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We keep prices low, and lower them even more with sales every week and coupons in the paper. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Dicey could barely see the words and prices. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave a contact point for later in the evening and urged any Negro man who wanted to earn five dollars for himself to find him a date within this price category. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Live the life; pay the price, she said. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The school he represents, Rider, is a middling institution in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, with a hefty price tag—about $45,000 for tuition, room, and board. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Food was more costly every day, whilst the price of flesh grew cheaper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They raised prices at the start of the teaching period when demand was high, only to offer bargains at the end of the term when there was no longer a need for a specimen. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "I'm going to check the prices in that shop real quick." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He succeeded in getting WHO to agree to sponsor a meeting of drug companies; they would be urged to produce more second-line drugs, and competition would drive down prices, Jim thought. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z My mother had taken the price tag off, but I saw a shirt just like it at the mall. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Meyers won on nearly every race but disliked to give tips because it brought down the prices. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “A very rare price,” he said, handing me the money. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z On November 24, 1859, on a wintry Thursday morning, Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection appeared in bookstores in England, priced at fifteen shillings a copy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Boatmen unloaded baskets of wares for customers who would come later in the evening to haggle over prices in the nearby market. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “She says they will. But for a price.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Drink and meal prices were posted on a wall or chalked on a board. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer’s answer was that project managers could afford to wait for lower prices, but not all patients could. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Yes, that's about the price. It's for a wedding present. I want them to look good. Are these all about Art?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “What could you possibly offer me that is worth the price of remembering?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I told you to keep the price low.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Mom takes one look at the price of the cheapest option and shouts, “No way, Jose! Abuela only sent you twenty dollars—” It takes all my willpower to not point out Abuela sent forty. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Then he pulled out a big blue marker and wrote on a piece of paper, "$2 per cup. Best price in town." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The price of a pair of boots is about two or three loaves of army bread, or a loaf of bread and a small, tough ham sausage. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His mom was selfish for demanding that Georgie buy something in her price range. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a fantastic price because the most sought-after woman earned eight pesos a night, but they all accepted. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “In any case, it’s good that you’ve learned that everything in life has its price. This is what the Warriors of the Light try to teach.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a fugitive with a price on his head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The doctor gave Mom a price and I could tell by the disappointed way she said “I see” that she couldn’t afford the operation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I put on my new dress, cutting off the price tag with Jon’s wire cutters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The Georgia trader paid high prices, and if the masters were in debt, or a crop had failed, or they had been gambling heavily and losing, they sold off another lot of slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But at twenty dollars a week, the price was right. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “By the end of the interview he was sending me links for the best places to get food in town, and how to get student prices for the movies.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I lick the obituaries and the sad memorial poems, the sports pages, the market prices of eggs butter and bacon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Felix had been buying stuff he wanted, not focusing on the price and the end goal of spending every penny. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Three hours’ wage was a high price to pay for answers, but I reached into my overcoat pocket for my billfold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z More generous financial aid policies will probably lead to higher tuition for those students who can afford the list price. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He couldn’t keep letting them pay such a price for him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The price shot up from fifteen dollars to eighty-five in no time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And the price collapse began to spread to the Far West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The human eggs that jump-started their development were always in demand, and commanded a high price. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He came out behind the house one day with a pocketful of change and was startled when he saw the price tags I’d taped to each rock. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The dog-and-rat pits paid fancy prices for the best fighters, and that meant sewer rats. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “I give you this for a good price.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Estimates vary according to the anticipated price for each freed slave, which ranges between one hundred and two hundred dollars. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z You would pay about one-third of the store’s price. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the house servants said the trouble was due to the difference in the price of cotton. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But as a wizard he had learned the price of the game, which is the peril of losing one’s self, playing away the truth. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t have the price of admission,” said Horace, pulling a single, lint-flecked coin from his pocket. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Go to New York if you wish, but I know a gentleman in Wilmington who will pay a pretty price for this.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But loving Daddy comes at a high price. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His breath coming back to him, each new lungful of air a gift of infinite price, Ben rose to one knee and watched the fight with eyes that were clouded with pain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama could feel when rain was coming on, when something was wrong with me or Jay, when someone was trying to fake her out at the market charging a higher price than was right. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I was in the midst of writing a novel and he was calling me from it to tabulate the price of groceries. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She had no qualms about telling a saleslady that a dress marked at twenty-five cents was worth only a dime, and she usually got it at that price. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s usually used in finance or pricing, not romance. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z News of the failed crop came in, and sitting in the coffeehouse, the boys had watched the prices on the chalkboard rise, trying to contain their glee. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Once prices fell, the committee would have real power. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Of course you weren’t supposed to raise prices. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Under protest, he agreed to accept just eighteen dollars, the price he had paid for the boat. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked for a price higher than her suggestion but lower than his first. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He took a second to think of a price. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I’m tempted to point out to him that everything on the menu is about the exact same price, but instead I thank him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “They will be back,” said Nathan, my husband, “or others will take their place. And did you not benefit from their stay, selling your pumpkins and plantains for better prices than you did before?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The low price means there’s plenty of cheap corn for the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “May I ask if this represents a new price bracket for you?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I’m trying to negotiate a 20 percent price reduction with the fitting room lady when—rotten luck!—Howard shows up and announces that there are no reductions and no employee discounts on clearanced items. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad used the word “inflation” to explain why we no longer ate bread, which rose in price overnight from two to five dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z These people were paying a higher price for Polyface food, and in many cases driving more than an hour to come get it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I have learned that no price can be put on good neighbors. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z What price will you give me for this important information? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species, the interpretation of dreams, the nature of things. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1996, Quotesmith.com became the first of several websites that enabled a customer to compare, within seconds, the price of term life insurance sold by dozens of different companies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He came to realize that any business in the oil patch was an enormous gamble, even when prices were sky high, and he really wasn’t much of a gambler. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoping to lower the price they scatter insults over their sisters’ wares, like irritating handfuls of harmless gravel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1733, Parliament ruled that an extra six cents must be added to the price of every gallon of molasses that did not come from an English source. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But the only thing in the living room is debris: price tags from all the gifts they’ve packed for their relatives, plastic hangers, cardboard from shirts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I ask you, is it fair for a girl to sit out her years, pass neglected through her prime, listing labels and prices without promise of a future?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Butcher them and hide the meat. Or sell it. You can get a good price for the hides from the troops. Sell what you can. I promise you, the stock will be stolen.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers planted even more, corn prices began falling, and, with a few interruptions, they have been falling ever since. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “You the only one. You’re smart to stay away from the general store, though. You go there, your pockets empty real fast. They got the prices so high, even a penny whistle costs two bits!” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “If you will meet my price, I said. Not Stannis. It’s not a king I need but a smuggler.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was prepared to offer $450,000 but he first called the seller’s agent and asked her to name the lowest price that she thought the homeowner might accept. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At the same time the wellhead price of U.S. oil dropped to $9.25 a barrel. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Gallup merchants raised prices in motels and restaurants all Ceremonial week, and made a lot of money off the tourists. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z By any measure this is a lot of money—it equals the mortgage on my Seattle home—and the quoted price did not include airfare to Nepal or personal equipment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Since I did not require any facilities, sewer, water, or electricity, the price to me for stopping the night was one dollar. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d negotiate a price and my father would plant them behind the house. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z When little kids were shopping with their moms, I would show off by pricing an entire box of cans real quick, and they got a kick out of that. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “What good would that be? If the asker knew the answer he wouldn’t pay our price for it.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I’d come back to the city after curfew before, once or twice, when there was a better price to be had for Mrs. Diamant’s goods in the villages than the city shops. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Because he worked so slowly, he made far fewer pieces than the other potters, and consequently had to sell each of them at a higher price. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Huge surpluses of wheat, corn, milk, pork, and beef produced in the Midwest had caused the price of farm commodities to crash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Harry didn’t ask for the price, but he returned, almost every day after that, just to look at the Firebolt. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He had succeeded in reaching through to the Soul of the World, and now the price for having done so might be his life. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All hope that this was merely an anomaly disappeared the next day, when the forces that had been battering the nation’s economy erupted in a panic on Wall Street that caused stock prices to plummet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It closed the day at $56, exactly twice the price I set.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z You can’t call your life your own: and in return you have safety—if it’s worth having at the price you pay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But Ebright only hardened his position: “You will not be able to get your old prices much longer, it will just be impossible to pay them... the goose that laid the golden egg is gone.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It had a price tag of $29.95, ten dollars short of a week’s salary. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z So, if this was part of the price to pay to participate in the greatest sporting event in the world, I was happy to pay my dues. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z War preparations were already tightening the supplies of both commodities, but Loomis pulled strings, even yanked them, to get Lawrence what he needed at a preferential price. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Well, if the price for Robert's company is an infestation of Lannisters, so be it. It sounds as though Robert is bringing half his court." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z To him, the oath was a small price to pay; by siding with Pizarro, Washkar’s panaqa, “which had lost everything, had a chance again.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She shifted uncomfortably, like even she didn’t want glory at the price of being Tantalus’s pet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Lige was the one to talk to if you wanted to put your bales in storage till you could get a better price. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Judith might have offered to help me further, but it came with a price. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z ‘Tes, yes, He saved you! And He paid a price for you. He gave His life for you. He was nailed for you. He became a man for you.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z An analysis of the language used in real-estate ads shows that certain words are powerfully correlated with the final sale price of a house. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There was just one way for the owners to silence their workers: by making the price of flight or rebellion too high. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She’d be willing to sell us the old farming tools, and we could easily resell them at a good price. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I used to stay here with your father. It’s super fun and the price is right—free!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z It may seem odd that I was constantly buying materials for my artificing over the river, but the truth was merchants near the University frequently took advantage of the students’ laziness and raised their prices. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He had one more passenger during the morning and with this one he argued and agreed upon a price and in the afternoon two more called to him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The town fathers of a thousand communities lend willing ears to the chemical salesman and the eager contractors who will rid the roadsides of “brush” — for a price. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "I cannot find good wine at any price of late." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Even when we offered them for a cheaper price, we were unable to get buyers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And so, while Eddie V. went off on the chemical taste of soda in plastic bottles, Dell checked out a website that sold bobble-head baseball player dolls at very affordable prices. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A worrying ache seemed a small price to pay for a perfect family. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Two for the price of one,” Mr. Robert said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a price to pay for having the first something in town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The answer was that white people had driven the prices higher by “over-bidding one another” for the services of the few black nurses available. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The sales-person had not even glanced at her, had said nothing other than the price. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The question is, can you pay this price?’ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z In those days, each life had a price on it, and Thiazi’s life was priced highly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Eventually, the whites who restricted their lives made them pay a terrible price. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z You could take a kid’s lunch or even his lunch money and nothing usually happened because most kids wanted peace at any price. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking him as squire had been part of the price Theon had paid for his horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “According to the original price...eighty bucks. But we’re charging half.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “We kept it so long on its mother’s milk. We’ll get a good price for it.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I’ve also printed out flyers with Mama’s catering menu and prices. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Most places the price is the price, but sometimes Elliot will “take an offer,” especially if it’s something he’s had a long time and would like to get rid of. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I glanced through it, noticing the high prices and a long list of different kinds of steak. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They were all happy because Pa had got such good prices for his furs that he could afford to get them such beautiful presents. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the terrible price was exacted for their transgressions. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The number has soared because prices have correspondingly plummeted, to about an eighth of what they cost in 1994. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Standing up top comes with a price, though. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The captain shrugs, like he’s embarrassed to mention the price. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It had cost the same price as ninety oxen, but, as Guenever had already read it seven times, it was no longer exciting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Because at a price I now see that which I couldn't see," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was going to be difficult to find a horse, because most farmers were not interested in overworking their animals—for any price. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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