What is "expences"

Usage examples of "expences".

Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford, by the practice of what might be called economy in her own private expences, she frequently sent them.

The heap, instead of increasing, diminishes daily, and leaves its possessor so much more unhappy, as, not having been able to confine his expences to a large revenue, he will still less be able to live contentedly on a small one.