Nor should I complain," said she, still more resolutely, "if these same services could be rendered toilfully, but costing nothing of self-sacrifice in honorable feeling.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
It's costing us considerable time that we can badly spare, but once or twice I fancied the whole river was coming in on us.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Now that I can pay them back without, in all probability, its costing me a dollar I'm at least going to try.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss