Vocabulary Word
Word: gratis
Definition: free; without charge; ADJ.
Definition: free; without charge; ADJ.
Sentences Containing 'gratis'
Well, I know, and you know, that all along a line that's being surveyed, there's little dabs of land that they call``gores,''that fall to the surveyor free gratis for nothing.
It is something thrown in, gratis, for good measure.
Either the diplomatist must give his lessons gratis, and I will tolerate him, or he must never set his foot again in my house; do you understand, madame?''
They spoke to me with great humanity, and said, “they were sure the captain would carry me _gratis_ to Lisbon, whence I might return to my own country; that two of the seamen would go back to the ship, inform the captain of what they had seen, and receive his orders; in the mean time, unless I would give my solemn oath not to fly, they would secure me by force.
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