money's-worth

The sight of that long series of historic rooms, full of such splendors and rarities as a great English family necessarily gathers about itself, in its hereditary abode, and in the lapse of ages, is well worth the money, or ten times as much, if indeed the value of the spectacle could be reckoned in money's-worth.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

The buying of that horse had been Sam's only extravagance, for which he had often reproached himself, and now this day he would see whether he would get his money's-worth out of that horse or no.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

A teacher of this sort I believe myself to be, and above all other men to have the knowledge which makes a man noble and good; and I give my pupils their money's-worth, and even more, as they themselves confess.

PROTAGORAS Plato 1889

A teacher of this sort I believe myself to be, and above all other men to have the knowledge which makes a man noble and good; and I give my pupils their money's-worth, and even more, as they themselves confess.

Protagoras 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

I don't mean that there is anything ungenteel in that itself -- far from it -- but I do mean that he doesn't do it well, and that he doesn't, if I may so express myself, get the money's-worth in the sort of dissipated reputation that attaches to him. '

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

English family necessarily gathers about itself, in its hereditary abode, and in the lapse of ages, is well worth the money, or ten times as much, if indeed the value of the spectacle could be reckoned in money's-worth.

Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

So you're going to have to coast down a lot of Pennines peaks before you get your money's-worth.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Neil Lyndon 2011

Britain and Ireland never received the benefit of the Irish patriot's services in any public capacity at home -- only through the hands of a defaulting deputy in Bermuda: it did, however, at length give him the money without the official money's-worth, for in 1835, under Lord

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815

The pair's tender harmonizing on "Walk Away Joe" was one of several money's-worth moments in the

Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2009

The pair's tender harmonizing on "Walk Away Joe" was one of several money's-worth moments in the

Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2009