dearly-bought

This hovel, however, joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant appearance; but, after my late dearly-bought experience, I dared not enter it.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

This hovel, however, joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant appearance; but, after my late dearly-bought experience, I dared not enter it.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

This hovel, however, joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant appearance; but, after my late dearly-bought experience, I dared not enter it.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

When he had consumed his dearly-bought bread, he got on his legs again, forgot his misery and comforted himself with the thought that he could always see enough with one eye.

Household Tales 2003

Only Tayledras-trained or an Adept with the dearly-bought control he and Savil shared could handle it.

Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

Only Tayledras-trained or an Adept with the dearly-bought control he and Savil shared could handle it.

Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

On his previous visits to the two Russian ports he had encountercd from his allies, blood brothers who should have been in tears of gratitude for the dearly-bought and vital supplies being ferried to their stricken country, nothing but sullen -. ness, indifference, a marked lack of co-operation and, not occasionally, downright hostility.

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

But the ever-provident Gatty, calling on the little girls, ran out, and collected the dearly-bought food; and, taking the little girls, she went boldly to the gardens, and between them they brought in a plentiful supply of everything.

Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Julia de Winton

Claiming reversal of that fine with dearly-bought success.

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

The result of this movement was the bloody combat of Fuentes d'Onore, a complete but dearly-bought triumph for our arms.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various