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Example sentences for "more precious"

  • Uncovering his royal head, with his kingly purple sweeping in the dust, he walked before the bier, shedding tears, more precious in the eyes of his subjects than the oil which was soon to pour upon his brow.

  • He must be near," thought she, "he whose smile is more precious to me than the adulation of all the world besides, now smiles upon every one!

  • Our two eldest children have a more precious remembrance of that time and the following Easter, which we also spent at Freshwater, for Tennyson read aloud to them for the first and only time.

  • I come to memorabilia more precious to me and of larger import.

  • The bounty of Theodora reserved for her companion a more precious favor.

  • For at that time everything which was not myself, the earth and the creatures upon it, seemed to me more precious, more important, endowed with a more real existence than they appear to full-grown men.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    foot soldiers; more akin; more certain; more comprehensive; more correct; more curious; more danger; more delicate; more detail; more especially; more formidable; more fortunate; more good; more grace; more intense; more literally; more nearly; more parts; more positive; more profitable; more rapid; more scientific; more sensitive; more simple; more suitable; taken away