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Dear-bought   Listen
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Dear-bought  adj.  Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dear-bought" Quotes from Famous Books



... of an immense and warlike population for more than six months. Let me now state the reward of all these dangerous and brilliant services. Narvaez is sent here by your enemies the governor of Cuba and bishop of Burgos, to strip you of your well-earned fame and dear-bought treasures. By aspersing your characters with the great Montezuma he has occasioned the defection of the natives who had submitted to our government, and he proclaims exterminating war against us with fire, sword, and rope, as if we were infidel Moors." He said a great deal more ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr

... study a gallery of pictures, and he will find his taste refined and elevated as much as it could be by a visit to the Vatican. The genius of these authors is to the full as high and noble and original as that of Raphael, Angelo, or Titian. The means of culture are not far-fetched and dear-bought. They lie around us everywhere, and to make use of them is a luxurious recreation of the mind. What mother, wearied and worn by the cares of maternity, what laborer, exhausted with toil, what student, faint with striving for fame, but would be refreshed and renewed ...
— The Elements of Character • Mary G. Chandler

... shame, that he might pour his dear-bought bounty into barren lives. What was his 36:12 earthly reward? He was forsaken by all save John, the beloved disciple, and a few women who bowed in silent woe beneath the shadow of his cross. The earthly 36:15 ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

... strong and high Do more than forts or battle-ships to keep Our dear-bought liberty. They fortify The heart of youth with valour wise and deep; They build eternal bulwarks, and command Immortal hosts ...
— The Poems of Henry Van Dyke • Henry Van Dyke

... tort'ring all the royal race, Him with the throne and dear-bought sceptre grace That suffers best. What region could be found, 97 Where your heroic ...
— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham

... confidence of just renown, Renown dear-bought, but dearest thus acquired, Write, Britain, write the moral lesson down: 'Tis not alone the heart with valour fired, The discipline so dreaded and admired, In many a field of bloody conquest known, —Such may by fame be lured, by gold be hired: ...
— Some Poems by Sir Walter Scott • Sir Walter Scott



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