Oddly enough, although the Government would not allow the merchants to reap the profit, they themselves, in virtue of the expense in connection with the issue of rations, were not above charging these expenses to prime cost, and so exorbitantly increasing themselves the retail price of the articles which they had taken over.
"The Siege of Mafeking (1900)"
J. Angus Hamilton
On the one hand was the playgoer, always seeking pleasure, paying exorbitantly for it, suffering unbearable discomforts for it, and hardly ever getting it.
"Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara"
George Bernard Shaw
Every chief demanded a present for allowing them to pass, and the people of the villages charged exorbitantly for all supplies.
"The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17"
Charles Francis Horne