Ça peut être également une place de foires et marchés, mais l'argent n'y a cours que très accessoirement, même si la possibilité de vendre en ligne est réelle et ne doit pas être négligée ni méprisée.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

“And you made us pay dear for it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Pr. L'adversité est sans doute un grand maître; mais ce maître se fait payer cher ses leçons, et souvent le profit qu'on en retire ne vaut pas le prix qu'elles ont coûté —Adversity is without doubt a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dear for his instructions, and often the profit we derive from them is not worth the price we are required to pay.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He was dressed in a new shooting-jacket, with his gun lying carelessly across his shoulder, and an ugly pointer dog following at a little distance.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Un peu de fiel gâte beaucoup de miel —A little gall spoils a great deal of honey.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Désirs est une proposition de fragmentation d'un poème anonyme (texte de 1692)
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But, after all, was this unconquerable distrust of Judge Pyncheon's integrity, and this utter denial, apparently, of his claim to stand in the ring of human sympathies,—were they founded in any just perception of his character, or merely the offspring of a woman's unreasonable prejudice, deduced from nothing?
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offence by weight
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Full thirty thousand their numbers are, Their ugliness passes description far; A compound of men and animals dread, With many a hand and many a head.
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

All the sad and melancholy and touching songs, that came up like dreams of childhood, this unknown player drew from the keys.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

Radunatisi parecchj frecciatori gettano in sù una pannocchia di frumentone, e si mettono a saettarla con una tal prontezza, e con una tal desterità, che non la lasciano venite a terra, finattantochè non le hanno levati tutti i grani.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

We may draw a picture of burned houses and roofless churches; of broken doors and narrow lanes, cumbered with useless plunder dragged from the houses and left in the streets because it could not be carried away; of dead bodies left unburied where they fell in defence or in flight along the streets and in the houses; of City gates lying open to any who chose to enter; of the City wall broken away, having never been repaired since the Britons fled before the Saxons came.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

The rain seldom falls, until the violence of the gust begins to subside; when a torrent of rain usually pours down for a short time, seldom more than half an hour; after which, the wind shifts around towards the west; and generally, in about an hour from the commencement of the tornado, the sky becomes serene, and sometimes almost cloudless.
— from Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr

and, although I'd often heard vaguely that young 'uns, playing draw for beans or tin tags, once in a while shoved the joker into the pack for the fun of the thing.
— from Taking Chances by Clarence Louis Cullen