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• Flitches of bacon and 'hands' (_i. e._, shoulders of cured pork, the legs or hams being sold, as fetching a better price) abounded; and for any visitor who could stay, neither cream nor finest wheaten flour was wanting for 'turf cakes' and 'singing hinnies,' with which it is the delight of the northern housewives to regale the honoured guest, as he sips their high-priced tea, sweetened with dainty sugar. Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1
• From the perspective of economic analysis, children are high-priced consumption goods that are rapidly becoming more expensive.
• I'm not speaking of technique; I suspect that any high-priced hetaera in New Rome is as skilled as any famous courtesan in history. Time Enough For Love
• He slept there rather than pay for the last remaining room, a high-priced deluxe suite.
• From the perspective of economic analysis, children are high-priced consumption goods that are rapidly becoming more expensive.
• At Lord's I kept thinking how strange it must feel for Sri Lanka, playing a game that draws empty seats back home, but here in London's Greatest Beer Garden inspires a full house of the often insensible, the beer-goggled, the bladder-swollen, the game's faithful backbone lolling dutifully in their high-priced seats, all doing their bit for English cricket's new economy of the sozzled. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
• They bought a lot of very high-priced stallions and brood mares and so on from all around the world.
• Known for its speed, high reliability, and ease of use, MySQL is rapidly becoming a low-cost alternative to high-priced, high-maintenance database systems.
• Constructed by a team of high-priced hitmakers led by Americana Authenticity Signifier Rick Rubin, "21" is informed, but never overwhelmed, by roots music: The booming opener "Rolling in the Deep" draws heavily from blues; "Rumour Has It" is set in a fictional universe where Dusty Springfield fronts the Ronettes; "One and Only" is an awe-inspiring gospel rave-up. Album review: Adele, "21"
• Resistance by those who seek to secure profits from high-priced petroleum, plus the domination of basic fuel research (until recently) by the Atomic Energy Commission and the military have delayed the development of efficient coal gasification and liquification as well as that of new methods of power production like magnetohydrodynamic systems. Energy and Society~ Chapter 16~ Energy in a Contracting System