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Dearer air fares, rising food bills and price mark-ups on clothes after the summer sales kept Britain's inflation rate stubbornly high at 3.1% last month.

Inflation stays high as clothes, food and travel rise 2010

Dearer to me is the child Kenneth, who chaseth the butterfly on the banks of the

A Legend of Montrose 2008

“Dearer to God than all of the Israelites who stood at Mount Sinai is the convert…Can anyone be dearer to God than such a person?”

Some Converts Are As Harmful For Israel As… | Jewschool 2007

Dearer to true young hearts than their own praise,

Idylls of the King 2004

Dearer than the whole world would she be to him and gild his days with happiness.

Ulysses 2003

Dearer than life and hope, if unenjoyed with thee.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Why is she silent when Lear turns expectantly to her, his favourite daughter, after he has heard Goneril and Regan swear that their father to them is 'Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty'?

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

"Dearer yet, if the duke must raise coins from us to rebuild his fine tower."

Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

Dearer if possible than ever; for all the parental props which once sustaind and supported me are fallen!

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 20 September 1783 1993

But I must add that I do not wish you to send much of any of these articles in this way as I find by compareing the articles you was so kind as to send me, with those put up, both by Mr. Bondfeild, and the other Gentleman, whose Name I cannot undertake to spell, that they turn out much Dearer by retail.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 May 1780 1973