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Meanings of frightful cost in English

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Usage of frightful cost in English
1
Twelve hours later, the danger was averted; but it was at a frightful cost.
The Pomp of Yesterday
2
For this, and this mainly, did Europe gird herself at frightful cost for war.
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
3
The frightful cost which you and yours must pay if you dare defend Virginia?
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
4
He published a succession of pages showing the frightful cost at which the aigrette was secured.
The Americanization of Edward Bok / The Autobiography of a Dutch...
5
The Londoners gained part of High Wood at frightful cost and then were blown out of it.
Now It Can Be Told
6
Why were my eyes designed but to see, my breast to love, my Cyrène, at such frightful cost?
The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
7
It had been gained at a frightful cost, but no price was too high to pay for such a victory.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
8
Better that the American Union had never been formed, than that it should have been obtained at such a frightful cost!
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
9
They are a peace-loving people and know the frightful costs of war.
The World Decision
10
"At a frightful cost," Crowther said.
The Bars of Iron
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