dearness

Example Sentences

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Today, the company has no office and Dearness and his son are the only full-time employees.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2019

New England Southern owner Peter Dearness met Tuesday with rail transit officials about the sale.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2019

If another Nation becomes Master of the Seas, and prevents the Fishery, the People will diminish in Proportion as the Loss of Employ and Dearness of Provision, makes it more difficult to subsist a Family.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

Dearness of wheat and meat had obliged half of the Irish and many of the English to live entirely on potatoes.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

And what signifies Dearness of Labour, when an English shilling passes for five and Twenty?

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell