He keeps the reports in his cash-box, just as though they was as precious as his stocks and bonds.
And they could seeprecious little outside of their den.
Just as much, my precious one," said grandmamma, drawing her arms close about Bessie, and pressing her lips on the little curly head.
This precious child is asleep," said Mrs. Rush, in a low voice.
I was a wandering sheep;" "I think you do need our precious Jesus.
God's holy book, that most precious gift, in which all may find what their souls need.
Even his wishes or commands must not come between me and the precious words in which I found so much comfort and strength.
And do you not think that his precious blood is enough to wash away our great sins as well as those which we may think are smaller?
The noble Lord, however, did not abandon his purpose of proclaiming to the world his valued kindness towards his German contemporary and brother poet, a precious evidence of which was placed in front of the tragedy of Werner.
He had barely time to answer by a well-filled page, which the possessor has preserved among his most precious papers, as the worthiest evidence of the connection that had been formed.
They go astray, they give up some precious thing--their innocence perhaps--to a deluding temptation.
I am too miserable to laugh, and my grim Emersonian fatalism gives me precious little comfort, though it is about the only thing that I do firmly believe in.
His clenched hand rested on the arm of the chair, and he continued sarcastically: "Oh, a precious pair of idiots!
You little knew how precious you were to me, nor what keen suffering our estrangement cost me.
She would insist on seeing about some shelves for this precious kitchen; thinks I am bound to put pantries, and closets, and shelves all over the house, for my future tenants.
What a precious age of backbiting we city belles live in!
She is my all; yetprecious as she is to my sad heart, I would gladly lay her in her grave to-morrow sooner than see her live to marry an uncongenial spirit, or know that her radiant face was clouded with sorrow, like mine.
I do not speak of anything counted wicked; it is only gambling with the preciousand lovely things of the deepest human relation!
They shut up God's precious light in the horn lantern of human theory, and the lantern casts such shadows on the path to the kingdom as seem to dim eyes insurmountable obstructions.
Does that mean that Mrs. Langton has been told this preciousstory with all the latest improvements?
Here's a passage where your solicitor is guilty of a bit of sharp practice--underlined by your precious uncle!
I shall do so: But I must also feele it as a man; I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me: Did heauen looke on, And would not take their part?
Even Lefuel de Méricourt abandoned her, and in an article in his precious journal, "regretted the loss of a part of her physical gifts by an actress who had been so long the idol of the public.
I profit by my liberty, that liberty so precious to philosophers, to leave you.
She even snatched her hitherto precious earrings from their pink cotton resting place and hurled them as far as she could into the night.
And how are you going to prevent my saying what I please about your precious protégé?
I didn't do much out there, precious little in fact but what I was told to do.
General Guerrero, in full uniform, glistening with precious stones, appeared at the head of the troops.
Valentine hesitated a moment, thinking whether he should follow him; but, after due reflection, he felt persuaded that all was not finished yet, and that he should probably still obtain some precious information.
What is the use of this long deliberation, and such a loss of precious time?
The word appeared so precious to the Frenchmen that, in spite of their anger and alarm, they could not prevent it, but burst into a loud laugh.
Because I know that the big things are in you and always have been, I would trust you--with my most precious possession.
Gold and jewels were thrown in, but it still seemed bottomless, and at last the augurs declared that it was courage that was the most precious thing in Rome.
The braver, stronger men shut themselves up in the Capitol; all the rest, with the women and children, put their most precious goods into carts and left the city.
As you know, I often wrote articles for some of the more precious papers when at college.
Remember, you and yourprecious friend plotted to kill me.
It is I who have to suffer, I who am crushed, humiliated, ruined, while you and your precious friend shield yourselves behind your cloaks of honesty.
Mrs. Siddons, when she came off the stage after dying hard, as Desdemona, or harrowing the hearts of her audience by her representation of Jane Shore, could composedly ask those around for a pinch of the precious restorative.
What is the best beverage to imbibe whilst inhaling the precious weed?
This uppowoc is of so preciousestimation amongest them that they thinke their gods are marvellously delighted therewith; whereupon sometime they make halowed fires, and cast some of the powder therein for a sacrifise.
And thousands and thousands of men, if compelled to limit themselves to a single nervous aliment, would relinquish wine and coffee, opium and brandy, and cling fondly to the precious narcotic leaf.
In the courts of princes and wealthy natives the vessels and tubes are lavishly adorned withprecious metals.
Rushing into an opposite extreme, the most outrageous receptacles for the precious dust were devised.
One man, more fortunate than his comrades, continued to use with much economy the most precious of all his stores--tobacco.
Other persons were meanwhile pushing inquiries in a more certain direction, and subjecting the supposed precious treasure to infallible tests.
A village patriarch, skilled in fairy lore, entertained some of the gold-seekers with the following legend, which had the effect of sending them in search of the precious metal elsewhere.
Why, how can the preciousnestlings sleep in so much noise?
Springs are gems of the first water, as the dealer in precious stones would say of a perfect diamond.
This way, if you please, and mind your preciousneck if you prefer pistols.
Whatever happened, the precious voice must be preserved, even if it took the one he loved away from him to the end of the chapter.
It's no use sending the carpet to fetch precious things for you if you're afraid to look at them when they come," said the Phoenix, sensibly.
Now that it is known to contain the rarest, and most precious substance in the world, it goes without saying that the owners have begun to put a price on it.
Yes," said Cyril, "and preciouspleased those Jevonses would be to see us and our traps.
Sadi gained the ruins above with a great gash upon his cheek and his precious fiddle cleaved in half by a cut from a Prussian sword.
He had caught up the precious fiddle which the captain returned to him, and he hugged it to him as the one possession left to him in the world.
Unwilling to submit, and anxious to get forward, we lost twenty-four hours of precious time in vainly negotiating with the master of a small vessel to smuggle us over.
These are so highly valued throughout Japon, that they are regarded as the most precious jewels of their closets and household furniture.
They wear many gold necklaces about the neck, calumbigas on the wrists, large earrings of wrought gold in the ears, and rings of gold and precious stones.
There is abundance of cedar which is called calanta, a beautiful red wood called asana, [75] ebony of various qualities, and many other precious woods for all uses.
These bells they regard as precious jewels; they resemble large pans and are very sonorous.
Some wear strings of precious stones--cornelians and agates; and other blue and white stones, which they esteem highly.
She wanted to give all she could, and keep as much of Mac's affection as she honestly might; because it seemed to grow more sweet and precious when she thought of putting it away.
He is trying to flee temptation, and whoever leads him into it does a cowardly and sinful act; for the loss of one's own self-respect is bad enough, without losing the more precious things that make life worth having.
Why it's the old gal at 42; she 's precious bad, I can tell yer.
Feeling as strong as he did nowadays, he might reasonably count upon ten years more of life, and in that time the precious liquor might be exchanged for much gold.
Not a drop to save your wretched old soul," responded the Colonel; probably thinking that the apothecary was pleading for a small share of the precious liquor.
Twelve precious years, never to be retrieved, were lost by the failure of the Reichstag; it is even harder to create a navy overnight than an army.
One ray flooded the magnificent coffin of the King, surmounted by the English crown, and made marvelous play with the colors of the precious stones adorning it.
I soon realized that the greatest possible improvement of our highly developed technical department was absolutely necessary and would save precious blood.
Perhaps I may catch up even one from the gulph, and, that will be great gain; for is there upon earth a gem so precious as the human soul?
Mr. Calhoun does not tell us who is to bestow this precious boon.
He has given to the war something more precious than a ship: his youngest son, Captain Vanderbilt, the most athletic youth that ever graduated at West Point, and one of the finest young men in the country.
But on board this ship, under a mountain of tea-chests, the owner had two pipes of precious Madeira wine, which had been sent on a voyage for the improvement of its constitution.
