cost

Charlie Sloane’s slate pencil, gorgeously bedizened with striped red and yellow paper, costing two cents where ordinary pencils cost only one, which he sent up to her after dinner hour, met with a more favorable reception.

Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana’s important communication within the limits of ten minutes.

It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it cost them two and thirty pounds.”

It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings.