It was the exorbitance of the mansion that finally convinced them that the owners were very rich.    From LearnThat.org. 

But the exorbitance and arrogance of "the slave power" forbade this accommodation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Ended Slavery] Reference

The aviary was the only pristine place in the realm-quite an exorbitance, given the aerial army it would take to protect the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Streams]

This is the latest salvo in the battle against Wall Street's exorbitance, and this time it appears shareholders might stand a chance.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Calls against big CEO pay grow louder: Shareholders Want 'Say on Pay' in Push Against Excessive CEO Compensation] Reference

This is the latest salvo in the battle against Wall Street\'s exorbitance, and this time it appears shareholders might stand a chance. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Calls against big CEO pay grow louder: Shareholders Want 'Say on Pay' in Push Against Excessive CEO Compensation] Reference

Goetz, who had been mugged once before, interpreted the exorbitance of the figure, as well as their threatening posture, as the prelude to another mugging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russ Wellen: Confronting Your Inner Vigilante] Reference

But, as to his being bereaved of his most beloved wife, this was probably the cause, that the Lord intended to correct the exorbitance of his affection for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference

That emotional reaction simultaneously encourages consumer loyalty to the particular hotel and justifies exorbitance that might otherwise be out of the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel Package PushersPackage Pushers] Reference

Some older readers of this essay will remember Reza Baraheni, whose 1977 book, The Crowned Cannibals, did much to alert the West to the sheer exorbitance and cruelty of the Pahlavi pseudo-dynasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Version] Reference

It strikes the balance between minimalism and exorbitance beautifully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newegg.com RSS Feed - Daily Deals]

But the price extracted in exchange MUST be absolutely dazzling in its exorbitance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marc Cooper] Reference

Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such exorbitance n.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

No care at all was had to curb the unruliness of anger, or the exorbitance of desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.] Reference

There's such exorbitance in the storyline as we see Skynet take over land, sea and air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig Daily Press stories] Reference

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced her first hostilities against the axis of exorbitance will ….    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

The cruelty, exorbitance, and intransigence of the Muslim Barbary states, however, would decide things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

We view this matter with great concern, as this exorbitance has caused severe damage to our religious mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte was Both] Reference

On this upper tunic, to confine the exorbitance of its draperies, and to prevent their interfering with the free motions of the limbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference

A Cæsar, securely seated in power, cares less for it than a free democracy; nor will his appetite for it grow to exorbitance, as that of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

This dearth, it is fair to assume, was caused by the exorbitance of Red-Eye, and it illustrates the menace he was to the existence of the horde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before Adam] Reference

But the exorbitance or dishonesty of their charges rarely exceeds a certain reasonable scale, and hardly ever demands the bitter misery of a remonstrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [North America] Reference

It is this that curbs nature, circumscribes appetite, restrains the gaiety and exorbitance of desire, stops the career of luxury, by taking off its wheels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference

Catholic apologists, when they try to tone down those pretensions and to explain them away, forget that it is in their very exorbitance that their fascination lies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cardinal Manning: Part VII] Reference

One week it was said to be the exorbitance of Mme. Nilsson's demands which gave Mr. Gye pause, and the next the difficulty of finding a tenor worthy of succeeding Signor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

In truth, we can hardly bring the whole exorbitance of that viciousness and absurdity home to our own minds unless we contemplate it as reflected in the mirror of a simile.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference

Only when love here claims to be above the world -- "All for Love, and the World well Lost" -- we feel that its exorbitance must wreck it here and now, however it may shine hereafter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Amity] Reference

The exorbitance of salaries was also a subject of some declamation, and the equality of commercial privileges with which foreign bottoms entered American ports, was not free from objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched] Reference

Their season is but of two months, which is their sole reply to every remonstrance against the exorbitance of their charges; and certainly they cannot be accused of not making hay while the sun shines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters] Reference

And though "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" makes for a usually-wise platitude, Voltaire wasn't dealing with the exorbitance of American health care or the ecological cataclysm of global warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Fierce competition for places leaves Sparky a happy manager … By Zack Wilson Manchester City are concerned, there is a tendency to judge everyone by the exorbitance of the fee and the size of the column inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to President James Michel addresses first Seychelles Tourism Seminar in the People’s Republic of China] Reference

No overflow or exorbitance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Funny Book Is Hard to Find] Reference

Even their exorbitance of power: and when.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference

The mantle of exorbitance had also changed hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Such exorbitance!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference