The level of the land is so low, the soil so soft, and stone suitable for metal so entirely absent, that the making and upkeep of roads would here be ruinously expensive.   anvd [Please select]

War is always ruinously expensive, and that party generally is successful which can the longer furnish resources.   anvd [Please select]

Flour became ruinously dear, and the poor could not get enough to eat.   anvd [Please select]

Absolutism, on its side, seems to hold that 'some' is a category ruinously infected with self-contradictoriness, and that the only categories inwardly consistent and therefore pertinent to reality are 'all' and 'none.'   anvd [Please select]

Harlan tells us: "During my sojourn in Stockton I mixed freely with the returning and disgusted miners from whom I learned that they were selling their mining implements at ruinously low prices."   anvd [Please select]