The old repertory costs, as a rule, very little, and the rights of new works are charged generally from 5 per cent.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
But you don't know what it costs a girl to come down from the clouds and find that reality is hard and ugly-from dreaming of a cozy little nest of a home, and the love and care of-of Manley, to the reality-to carrying water and chopping wood and being left alone, day after day, and to find that his love only meant-Oh, you don't know how a woman clings to her ideals!
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
There's just one way of putting anything through here, and that's to take hold and hang right on, no matter what it costs.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton