... Throughout the Soudan money is exceedingly scarce and the rate of interest exorbitant, varying, according to the securities, from thirty-six to eighty per cent...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
... The demands for porterage were so exorbitant next morning, that we set out on foot under the guidance of Tom Peter...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...The exorbitant demand had evidently been made by express desire of Gidi Mavunga, and only a fortnight's delay could have reduced it to normal dimensions...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...It is not a State road, but was built and is owned by aDutch company, and, except that it charges exorbitant rates and doesnot keep its carriages clean, it is well run, and the road-bed isexcellent...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...I was pleased with this effrontery, having paid the exorbitant charge into his own hands, not a month before...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
... Pilotage is five shillings sterling per foot; and the port-charges are so exorbitant as to prevent the entrance of many vessels, which would otherwise stop to try the market...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...It was exorbitant...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...Frick had thefamilies of the dead evicted from their homes, which had been sold tothe workingmen on the instalment plan and at the exorbitant prices usualin such cases...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906」
...We did not buy the animal, on accountof the exorbitant sum asked for him, and the risk of his living during along voyage...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...But thepossessor was so exorbitant in his demand for Jacko, that the Generaldid not change proprietors...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
...Nor is this an isolated case, the exorbitant pretension of asingle ill-balanced mind...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Naval Stores, however, do not wantfor price any more here than they do at Batavia; these are only sold bythe company, who have a certain fix'd exorbitant Price, from which theynever deviate...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...The price of fresh meat at Port Jackson was so exorbitant, that it was impossible to think of purchasing it on the public account...
Matthew Flinders 「A Voyage to Terra Australis」
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