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• My house now is worth double what I paid for it.
• Cleanliness is the virtue most worth having but one.
• I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.
• Two years after their first European trophy, Atlético were well worth their second.
• This job is hardly worth the effort.
• They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.
• I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.
• Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
• Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.
• For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon weorthan equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, ‘What is word of him?’ meaning ‘What is become of him?’ and the like. Nay we in modern English still say, ‘Woe worth the hour.’ [i.e. Woe befall the hour]
• Corsed worth cowarddyse and couetyse boþe! [i.e. Cursed be cowardice and covetousness both]
• Woe worth the man that crosses me.