costliness

In the Bible Aloes are mentioned five times, and always with reference to their excellence and costliness.

The crises due to this unregulated production, and the costliness of the struggles, led to the formation of joint-stock companies.

It is not only their costliness and their beauty, but the associations which make them of so much interest.

Though quite without means, he planned this in his visions on a scale of extreme costliness and magnificence.

As we have already remarked, the secret of perfect dressing is simplicity, costliness being no essential element of real elegance.