precious

• So our poor natures may be drenched with God and give Him forth fragrant and precious, and men may be drawn thereby. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• Life is very precious, and one clings to it when one has such good children. —  Hortense Makers of History Series
• The grapes are very precious, and are kept upon the vines till they are nearly rotten. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
• But with these few and rare exceptions, he loses sight of the natural earth, and of its free intercourses, for weeks and months together; and precious in proportion--precious beyond its utmost anticipation--are his hours of holiday when at length they come. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
• The hour of lamplight is precious, and I am near the end of it now MUCHADIN, Monday, May 7th A day seldom passes on which one does not receive fresh proof that the world contains foolish people. —  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900

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