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Sentences starting with precious

Precious time lost--for us; precious time gained for Bedford. [5]
Precious minutes were lost in accomplishing this circuitous descent, and then they found the stepping-stones under water, and the sea-weed swishing about the slippery rocks with the incoming tide. [4]
Precious few people. [5]
Precious little. [14]

Sentences ending with precious

Time,' said Mr Witherden, pulling out his watch, 'in a business like this, is exceedingly precious. [12]
In effect they were days of companionship with one's sacred dead, and I have known no comradeship that was so close or so precious. [5]
Your father says time is precious. [10]
Opinions based upon theory, superstition and ignorance are not very precious. [5]
I saw that the last chance had the best show, but I didn't waste any bother about that; time was too precious. [5]
It is from that museum, I think, that the globe must have been supplied with the trees and vines and shrubs that it holds precious. [5]
Every moment is precious. [2]
Life has seemed more precious. [5]
Come, Marthana, the minutes are precious. [10]
To-day she would have been amply satisfied with pleasing Pollux, and she would, without a regret have transferred to another her part with all the applause and admiration it would procure her, and which, only yesterday, had seemed to her so inestimably precious. [10]

Short sentences using precious

It was a precious moment. [5]
Time is precious! [10]

Sentences containing precious two or more times

There, there, there, my precious, my own; it's nasty bitter stuff, but it's good for Nelly--good for mother's precious darling; and it will make her well. [5]
S. Well, I've lost a couple of precious daughters, but I've gained a couple of precious scamps to fill up the gap with; so it's all right. [5]

More example sentences with the word precious in them

May I offer you four thousand drachmae for your precious possession? [10]
Also Herdegen had written out many verses of Homer's great song from a precious written book, and had learned to master them well from the teaching of the doctor of Feltre. [10]
It is a world of precious relics, a wilderness of marred and mutilated gems. [5]
But, still, the works which his great and untiring hand had already thoroughly finished will remain to attest his learning and genius, --a precious and perpetual possession for his country. [6]
Over this he wore a mantle of white cloth-of-gold, pounced with the triple-feathered crest, lined with blue satin, set with pearls and precious stones, and fastened with a clasp of brilliants. [5]
She dropped a word or two of grief over the precious time that must be lost, then began at once to issue commands for the march back. [5]
He got through without a mistake--flawless and precious triumph. [5]
Its deck glittered with precious stones. [10]
I am favored with a blessed peace of mind, and a very precious season of good feelin' toward my fellow-creturs. [6]
Plain answers I will have to plain questions, or De Carteret of St. Ouen's shall have his will of you and your precious pirate. [11]
In reviewing the whole course of its history we read a long list of honored names, and a precious record written in private memories, in public charities, in permanent contributions to medical science, in generous sacrifices for the country. [3]
He and those who are like him--the blind--think nothing so precious as what satisfies the eye.--There! [10]
Serious questions to which she had never given a thought had been brought before her; and yet, in this brief period of anxiety she had gained the precious sense of youthfulness and of capacity for action when she had to depend on herself. [10]
Why, just now, when Caesar is here, and gain and honor be in the streets for such a one as you only to stoop for--why, I say, you should waste precious time on that poring fellow from the Museum, I can not understand. [10]
The precious metals were weighed out and used as money in the shape of rings, animals, etc. [10]
Pindar's great odes were occasional poems, just as much as our Commencement and Phi Beta Kappa poems are, and yet they have come down among the most precious bequests of antiquity to modern times. [6]
After dinner they went into the little orchard behind the house and sat drinking (in the French fashion) the commandant's precious coffee which had been sent to him from far-away New Orleans. [9]
Why will you waste the precious time? [5]
The color thereof was white and sapphire-blue, and so likewise were the velvet cap and finely-rounded ostrich feather, which was fastened into it with a brooch of sparkling precious stones. [10]
As the sun was wearing down to the western ridges the mischievous sorrel mare turned her pack on a sapling, and one of the precious bags burst. [9]
But as food was too precious to be given to foreigners, who were for the most part enemies, Napoleon preferred to supply them with money with which to purchase food from outside, and had paper rubles distributed to them. [2]
Our precious opportunity was thrown away; we could not understand Joan's conduct, she who had ben so wise until this fatal hour. [5]
Of course, there was news by telegraph, but that was precious as fine gold,--not to be lightly read and cast aside. [9]
The precious fluid was made by stirring a gallon of water with a quart of tar, leaving it forty-eight hours, and pouring off the clear water. [6]
Mr. Atterbury's faith was like an egg, and he took precious care not to have it broken or chipped. [9]
On the dark walls were Mrs. Forsythe's precious prints, and above the mantel a portrait of a thin, aristocratic gentleman who resembled the poet Tennyson. [9]
All the vast walls are made wholly of these precious stones, worked in, and in and in together in elaborate pattern s and figures, and polished till they glow like great mirrors with the pictured splendors reflected from the dome overhead. [5]
These brief, precious visits were the chief interests of his long days. [5]
Not he; but virtue passed through the hem of their parchment and leather garments whenever he touched them, as the precious drugs sweated through the bat's handle in the Arabian story. [6]
I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. [5]
Everything precious and valuable had been removed to Bogucharovo. [2]
My blessing rest upon you, my son, and upon every Ueberhell who, on his twenty-fifth birthday--that is having reached maturity--shall receive this little bottle and regard it as the most precious of all his possessions. [10]
It is kept under locks and bars, as a precious thing, and is reverently shown to the visitor, "hats off. [5]
After labouring for two or three years in their precious scheme, to find that they've got a beggar at last, and one of them tied for life. [12]
Think rather, if truth is so hard of attainment, how precious are the results which the consent of the wisest and most experienced among the healers of men agrees in accepting. [6]
The fairy said true; in all her store there was but one gift which was precious, only one that was not valueless. [5]
Gold and silver trappings lay there in abundance, costly articles of attire studded with precious stones . [10]
You are the tool, the obedient echo of the infamous wretch who now stretches his robber hand toward my most precious possession! [10]
Only wait till to-morrow or the day after; something will happen then which will reduce our own precious persons and this beautiful world to that nothingness which to-day is inconceivable. [10]
However, I had to obey orders, and my wife would have it that I should entrust my precious person only to the most skilful specialist in each department of medical practice. [6]
With kindest remembrances to Mr. Gaskell and all your precious circle, I am," etc. [14]
I don't take to men often, and to convicts precious seldom; but there was a look in this man's face which the prison clothes couldn't demoralise--a damned pathetic look, which seemed to say, 'Not guilty. [11]
Yet he spoke to me of his intention to offer himself to his country, and his blood must now be reckoned among the precious sacrifices which will make her soil sacred forever. [6]
To force her to marry Chartersea you made her believe that your precious honour was in danger. [9]
It was sweet to lie thus, to possess, as her very own, these precious, passionate memories of life lived at last to fulness, to feel that she had irrevocably given herself and taken--all. [9]
Whoever knows that thought and feeling end with life will not fear death; for, no matter how many dear and precious things the dead have left here below, their yearning for them has ceased with life. [10]
She felt as though some beloved hand had given her a vial of precious medicine that would cure every disease, when she had learned this verse, too, by heart. [10]
It seemed as though Fate had blessed the modest rooms in Red Cock Street with its most precious treasures. [10]
But spoken by those solemn lips to those stern, simpleminded hearers, the words I have cited seem to me to have a fragrance like the precious ointment of spikenard with which Mary anointed her Master's feet. [6]
I expected better things at their hands--and time is precious, now. [5]
It appeared that they were celebrating what was left of a precious leave. [9]
Egyptian vessels were there, manned by Phoenician colonists from the coasts of the Delta, and bringing fine woven goods from Malta, metals and precious stones from Sardinia, wine and copper from Cyprus. [10]
In the beginning there was but one that was precious, and it is still here. [5]
I walked hither, then, with my precious old friend. [5]
The ship conveying them was stranded at the mouth of the Elbe and my precious manuscript perished miserably in the wreck. [10]
I will have them set with the most precious stones; even diamonds will seem worthless to me compared with this gift from you. [10]
When Pierre remembered them afterwards they all seemed misty figures to him except Platon Karataev, who always remained in his mind a most vivid and precious memory and the personification of everything Russian, kindly, and round. [2]
Going down to the village store was not very exciting, and was, on the whole, a waste of our precious time. [4]
Like Sindbad in the valley of precious stones, he wants to fill his pockets with diamonds, but, lo! [6]
Your pap's got the small-pox, and you know it precious well. [5]
But something of the same fever in a different form reaches a good many non-combatants, who have no thought of losing a drop of precious blood belonging to themselves or their families. [6]
In these shops the precious old dears could buy everything they wanted in the most minute quantities. [6]
It is like the opium-smoker's showing you the pipe from which he has just inhaled elysian bliss, empty of the precious extract which has given him his dream. [6]
She thinks it's the moral aspect, but it's really the revolutionary aspect, the menace to those precious institutions from which we derive our privileges and comforts. [9]
And there, in the low cases along the walls, were the rows of his precious books,--his one hobby and extravagance. [9]
I must sweep the hundred and eighty miles between these places as one would sweep a chamber where a precious pearl had been dropped. [6]
The forest at the farthest extremity of the panorama seemed carved in some precious stone of a yellowish-green color; its undulating outline was silhouetted against the horizon and was pierced beyond Valuevo by the Smolensk highroad crowded with troops. [2]
Perhaps this was the "word," and if not, it was the highest, most exquisite, most precious thing in life, beside which everything else seemed small, pitiful and insipid. [10]
Do you know that you have caused a turmoil amongst both ecclesiastical and secular authorities, and that many a precious hour has been shortened for me on your account? [10]
But I know that what we feel, although it may be foreign to our usual sensations, is loftier and more precious than these, not lower. [10]
It is believed that the produce of the mines of precious metals in that region has during the year reached, if not exceeded, $100,000,000 in value. [7]
The same day that the body was found it was burnt on a pile of precious wood. [10]
Now he knew that it was beyond value, the one precious gift of life, and the knowledge had come too late. [9]
Life, fortune, all that is dear and precious and useful to man, we will resign for the highest of blessings. [10]
Don't you know that every moment is precious now? [5]
The palace of Susa was built of brick, (Strabo p. 728) that of Ecbatana of wood overlaid with plates of gold of immense value, and roofed with tiles made of the precious metals. [10]
To be the supreme authority on anything is a satisfaction to self-love next door to the precious delusions of dementia. [6]
I wore a suit of gray homespun, and in my saddle-bags I carried four precious law books, the stock in trade which my generous patron had given me. [9]
Inlaid with precious stones in lovely patterns of flowers--5. [5]
The genuine precious stone was found farther to the south, on the western shore of the Red Sea, and was highly prized in Egypt. [10]
At first the spring had lost itself in a heap of moss-covered granite blocks and afterwards in the earth; but now the overflow and trickling away of the precious fluid had been stopped and a reservoir formed whence the cattle also could drink. [10]
Sweet and gracious souls Dear to my heart by nature's fondest names, Is not your memory still the precious mould That lends its form to Him who hears my prayer? [6]
She had indeed soothed a pride wounded of late beyond endurance, suspecting, as she did, that Leicester had played his long part for his own sordid purposes, that his devotion was more alloy than precious metal. [11]
He had come so near to being relieved of that most precious possession, his respectability, that the reason in Mr. Cooke's course now appealed to him very strongly. [9]
The precious spoil so easily won had soon lost its value in his eyes. [10]
Shortly afterward they slipped out of the house in the deepening twilight, and moved toward the river with their precious box. [5]
The precious minutes slipped by; among so many bewitching songsters he found it hard to choose, and all the harder because the promised penalty for an error was so terrible that it unsettled his judgment and made him afraid to trust his own ears. [5]
He who, ever since he returned to Alexandria from Tennis, had squandered precious time as if possessed by evil demons, would now make a better use of it. [10]
One day I showed him my treasure-chambers, at the sight of which he fell into despair, called himself a common beggar and declared that one good handful of these precious things would make him a happy man. [10]
I can't think she is perfect, any more than you are perfect--you will find that she is just a woman--but there is nothing in all life so precious as such a heart as hers. [4]
In pained surprise she inquired what cause he, whom Heaven had hitherto loaded with its most precious gifts, had to complain of Fate, as whose spoiled favourite she, like all the rest of the world, had believed him happy. [10]
The Lord, it seems, denies me His precious Blood--and yet--let me try once more. [10]
I need not say that Jake went off well paid for his pickerel and the precious contents of its stomach. [6]
What can I say on that precious topic? [14]
They had to save, as much as they could, the precious remnants of his sight. [14]
Stay here and save our precious lives, if you can, or at least put us through in the proper way, so that we needn't be ashamed of ourselves for dying, if we must die. [6]
Still, his own safety was more precious to him than the wishes of any living mortal; so he began by pouring out, on both, the vials of his wrath at the bad management of the town. [10]
His record is safe in her hands, and his memory will be precious always in the hearts of all who enjoyed his friendship. [6]
The men whom Rudyard had gone to save could control a greater wealth, a more precious thing than anything he had. [11]
It was a room best described by the word "home"--home made more precious by a certain precariousness. [9]

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