I explained the cause of the delay, and suggested that Mrs. Thorneycroft and her friends could amuse themselves in the garden whilst the solicitor and I ran over the inventory of the chief valuables to be surrendered together.
After some hurried consultation, the family packed up all their jewels andvaluables and sought shelter in flight.
They searched the empty rooms and were furious at finding no valuables worth carrying away.
The ancient inventories of church goods show the deplorable loss of the valuables of the church which has taken place.
Of course we feasted in it till we were tired; then we put as much of its valuables into our ships as they could carry, after which we set the place on fire and returned to Norway.
I wonder if there arevaluables in it," said Edgar.
Customers deposit their valuables with me and I hand them a receipt: they give me back the receipt when they demand their valuables, and all I have to do is comply with their request, without asking questions.
What is your view, sir, of a crapulous robber who sees valuables like that within his reach, and who does not take them?
As to the valuables in Mr. Luker's possession, Mr. Luker himself must take the best measures for their safe custody.
The valuables in the boat were quickly transferred to the ship, and the little craft which had proved an ark of safety to the adventurers, was then cut adrift, and soon lay a mere speck upon the waters, unguided and alone.
The tenant must give an assignment of his goods to the keeper-in-chief, who shall not be held responsible for the safe-keeping of merchandise or valuables which have not been duly declared.
Merchandise orvaluables stored in these warehouses are held by the administration as security for payment of rental.
A descriptive catalogue of these valuables and works of art was kept in each temple, and sometimes engraved on marble.
The third class consisted of buildings in which the citizens might deposit their goods, money, plate, securities, and other valuables for which they had no place of safety in their own houses.
The cache of goods or valuables was generally made in a wagon bed, if one, as in the present instance, was to be abandoned.
When Mrs. Reed reached Sutter's Fort she found these valuables awaiting her.
So with a groan I consigned all these valuables to my capacious pockets.
It was easy for her to show that she had been driven to pledge her jewels and other valuables by need of money.
She had employed the two nights previous to his death in transporting valuables thither to a great amount.
He brought in guns and other valuables in part payment of the fine, and was ordered to produce the two offenders and to raze their houses to the ground.
Many of the villagers keep their valuables in boats for protection, and some women and children go nightly to sleep in the boats, where they consider they are safer than in their houses (ibid.
The train-surgeon, having delivered the valuablesof the patients, walked with me to the naval barracks, where for the first time in thirty-six hours he had a chance to really rest.
The patient's clothes are packed in a bag, and all the valuables of one batch of patients are sealed up in one envelope, which is receipted for by the surgeon of the hospital to which the patients are sent.
On the other hand, if the customer should leave his valuables at a safe-deposit company, a different rule would apply, because that company charges him for keeping the articles.
It is a common thing for a customer to go to his bank, especially in the country, and ask the cashier to keep his valuables during his absence.
Suppose they are put in the safe among other valuables belonging to the bank and a robber breaks in and takes them away--is the bank responsible?
The valuables now under this roof, together with the proceeds from the last voyage of the blockade runner, Red Bird, I am putting in that safe place discovered by me in childhood, of which I have sometimes spoken.
Richard had been warned of their raid and had managed to hide the family valuables in a secret place--somewhere within this very hall, according to tradition.
He used the men brutally, having them hoisted by the arms and drubbed with a cutlass, to find out whether or no any valuables were on board.
This done, they gathered all the plate, valuables generally, and merchandise they could, or thought convenient to carry away.
This was to see whether any one had secreted valuablesfor his own use.
The clothes, money, and valuables of the inmates were also salvaged and sent to the appropriate agencies for disposition.
Eighty thousand dollars' worth of valuables was carried off, and the owner and his two sons were carried away for ransom.
In cases of invasion, a favourite plan adopted by the Scots for the defence of their country, was to convey their cattle and other valuables to the more inaccessible districts north of the Forth.
The police kept a wise eye upon the valuables of the Palace, and let the people alone.
A vast, hideous barn without, it yet holds somevaluables that well repay the trouble of inspection.
St. Mark’s has drawn heavily upon the Holy Land, if one-half the valuables stored within the Cathedral are genuine.
The concealment ofvaluables in secret places frequently results in misadventure.
In spite of her doubt of the wisdom of bringing such valuables so far and to such a place, she and Cicely took a secret delight in a weekly cleaning up of the silver, secure of all observation from outsiders.
My three valuables (let a kind world forgive me this luxury!
On a Monday in the week, he had stopped on the highway, and robbed of all his valuables and all his papers, an Italian nobleman--the Marquis Petrucci of Sienna.
None of the valuables about the dead man's person had been touched; his watch and his money were still in his pockets.
Then, after a pause, he fixed his eyes suspiciously upon Charlie, and added, "I wonder if the Doctor kept any valuables or securities that thieves might covet in his house?
Whatever valuables Dr Petrovitch had kept there had disappeared.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "valuables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
