"Exorbitantly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hospitality of the citizens, and the abundance of food which prevailed; but Villani and others give us more disagreeable accounts—namely, that the Roman citizens became hotel-keepers, and charged exorbitantly for lodgings, and for whatever they sold. Numbers of pilgrims were thus necessitated to live poorly; and this, added to their fatigue and the heats of summer, produced ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch |
