uncostly
Example Sentences
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Morning after morning, from the back-page of your newspaper, quick and uncostly cures for every human ill thrust themselves wildly on you.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
It is this uncostly gentleness of bearing which gives a winning impression of the whole people, whatever selfishness or real discourtesy lie beneath it.
From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean
Nothing is so beautiful as a rose diamond with the light playing through it, except that uncostly thing which is just like it—wavy sea-water with the sunlight playing through it and striking a white-sand bottom.
From Following the Equator, Part 7 by Twain, Mark
The ring, uncostly as it was, took nearly all Guy's spare money, and he decided to buy a book for her, because in Oxford bookshops he still had accounts running.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton
It bore that air of uncostly refinement which is one of the most pleasing outward features of the aloof civilization to which it, though not the Callenders, belonged.
From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo