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came at a price
vb. (en-pastcome at a price)
Usage examples of "came at a price".
Vaylo had been a chief for too long not to know that all things came at a price.
Such things came at a price, Effie knew, and she wondered how Druss and Clewis Reed could afford them.
But this power came at a price: the vily were forever tied to their trees, and if the tree died, so did its vila.
Ethur was the oldest living human being, having occupied the Steel Throne for over four hundred years, but that privilege came at a price.
Jinette spoke the truth, but there were things he did not say and perhaps he could not understand: that in Van Helsing's work, victory came at a price.