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How to use precious in a sentence

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I sat in my back corner all by myself ignoring the whole world and reading my precious manga.
The urban environment is ailing and, what is more, there are precious few ways in which to address its problems.
Their racket was laundering drug money through companies which traded in precious metals.
Things got worse when the boat's watermaker packed up and Richards had to spend precious time repairing it.
The Australian gold rush of the 1850s generated a huge demand for accurate scales to weigh precious metals and guns to protect the gold bullion.
Such joyless suppression crushes that most precious thing in life, the flowering of the individual human spirit.
Worse than that, his predecessor had spent all the money, leaving him precious little room for manoeuvre.
No novelist can afford to be precious about the film adaptations of their work.
Indeed, there is precious little to suggest he is even well-disposed towards the poor.
Expeditions would scavenge the desolate landscape for precious supplies, such as fuel and water.
It is this lack that has made archeological finds scarce and precious, finds like the one Dan made.
When my mom died, I got my mama's glasses, and they're very, very precious to me.
Particularly in the Saxon pagan period, gold jewellery was often inset with precious or semi-precious stones such as garnet.
A babymoon is important because it allows parents the precious time to be totally present with their new baby.
The tool is easy to use and in the end, will spare you aggravation and save you precious time.
He walked the 300 metre long hall, carved from antique mahogany and adorned with precious gems and family portraits.
The walls had excellently crafted tapestries that must have been precious family heirlooms from the look of them.
I for one would like to see a NZ that values its smaller citizens as a precious taonga, as autonomous rights-holders, and a worthy investment.
For the most part, the copy editors do a magnificent job, for next to no money, and precious little thanks.
These precious records are saved on DVD and magnetic tape to ensure safe storage.
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That night, the carpetmaker closed his shop, piled his most precious wares upon a single camel, and left Baghdad.
Future generations might actually find our radioactive wastes valuable, just as old mine tailings are a useful source of precious metals today.
Space was a precious commodity on sailing ships, and decks were kept as clear as possible.
What was ordinary yesterday becomes precious today, and what was precious yesterday seems dull and lusterless.
However sacredly boomers regard their nostalgia, it turns out their children regard it as more precious than their own.
So there is also a loss of the fear of God, and the judgement to come, and the precious atonement for our sins.
Even as we export this precious principle, however, there is evidence that it has lost ground here at home.
Prices have doubled in the past year, often selling at a premium to other precious metals such as platinum.
He says development of low-profile projector lamps will also help on saving precious space and mass.
There are few principles so precious as that which asserts that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
And if your pension scheme simply runs out of money, there is precious little you can do.
It is also true that many players know better than to waste precious match time trying to assault a strong defensive position.
After all, who doesn't want their precious daughter to aspire to such heights?
It was not as precious as silver was these days but it was nice loot for a pickpocket.
Hours later, soaked, cold and shivering, John pulled himself up the river-bank downstream, still holding his precious loot from the heist.
Christ feedeth and fast nourisheth his church with his own precious body, that is, the bread of life coming down from heaven.
It may sound precious, but I wonder if a first step is to begin making, literally making, the bread and wine of communion.
I have to spend my precious day off in front of a PC doing nothing but geeky stuff all day long.
Artesian water is a precious commodity and some parts of the desert have insufficient water supplies to maintain a pool in the long term.
This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious.
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Well, I sure hope you didn't get your loafers dirty, and that your precious nose has recovered from the smell of animal poo.
At first glance Jackson Hole might not seem the most likely place to introduce your precious little ones to downhill.
Fluxing agents include lead oxide or litharge which is used as a collector of precious metals.
But it wasn't until nearly 300 years later that Arab traders began to boil or roast these precious beans.
Detailing is refined but never precious, allowing the house to feel at once substantial and robust, light and refined.
Restaurants in the hotel were the first to provide authentic Beijing cuisine such as roast duck and precious royal dishes.
Shaped by one of the few men to be trusted with the last precious piece of bona fide linksland in Scotland, it is truly beautiful.
She is not only a coffee researcher, but also a coffee fan who collects beans during vacations and roasts the precious commodity to perfection.
A gift more precious than any other, he had given her his love and approval.
Paying attention to the home front can produce precious property value appreciation.
This includes seal engraving, die-sinking, line engraving, carving and also grain setting of precious stones in jewellery.
Trichinosis, a parasite found in pork, is the villain responsible for this accepted practice of burning of our precious pork chops.
In that precious time they tried unsuccessfully to launch the boat's inflatable life raft.
Weak palladium and rhodium prices also affected its precious metals division, though demand for platinum helped to cushion the fall.
Sarah's time was too precious to be rewashing clothes, and in an instant she decided to put them away for her.
Confidantes are a more precious commodity than ever, in part because the CEO position has become a revolving door.
There's a few covers out there which manage to make these precious songs vibrant and new without sullying their reputation or burying the lede.
Although the government says it won't bail out the company, it has done precious little to repair the situation apart from sacking Subramanyam.
Each exquisite creation is studded with semi precious stones like turquoise, amethyst, pearls and corals.
If he was in the home removals business, he would be the one gingerly carrying the precious crystal vase across a treacherously slippery floor.
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The panels had come up with some amazing stories and had recorded some precious memories and insights.
Those surveys have precious little use as evidence for anything useful or important any more.
Gone are the days of planting just wheat every other year, alternately leaving soil fallow to perhaps store precious water.
In the Feast of the Passover we see Christ as the Lamb of God, shedding his precious blood to redeem his people.
But, indeed, this was a day, a very precious day, considering the time between now and Tuesday, taken up trying to rejigger the staff.
Palladium is generally alloyed with other precious metals, such as gold and silver, as well as with copper.
This is a precious gateway into the alleviation of suffering, which I believe to be our principal task on this earth.
But all hail to the few precious craftsmen firms that keep the city and the whole of North Yorkshire firmly rooted in a glorious past.
The bee transports her precious contents to the hive, where she regurgitates it from the honey sac to a waiting house bee.
A number of our precious readers wrote in saying they didn't believe it was him.
Everything was spread out over five different levels with precious few staircases open to the public.
The archive holds some of the oldest and most precious works of art and treasure known to man.
And remember, he knows you're great or he wouldn't be spending his precious time with you!
The right to seek redress of wrongs in court is precious and should not be restricted or abridged, based on myths.
Hydroxycut can also help you burn stored fat for energy while sparing your precious muscle.
Later, it was the rector's two daughters who gently instilled into his mind the precious truths of God's redeeming grace.
There are earrings with precious stones in red, green and blue at another stall.
The female wolf spider is a very gentle parent, encasing her eggs in silk and carrying the precious bundle with her wherever she goes.
And even holy people, who can sometimes seem a bit precious about getting their feet wet, can't keep out the commercial tide.
Gemstone settings are basically any setting with a combination of diamonds and other precious stones.
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Thermals save a flyer from having to use precious stamina on wingstrokes to gain altitude.
Wasting a precious 10 minutes of airtime on a puny regional news bulletin was not going to happen.
The area where precious defense resources can be used to best effect is to improve our airlift and sealift capabilities.
A steady stream of them continuously marched right down the middle of the log and into Ana's precious ariat.
He wrestled her arm away long enough to gasp a few precious seconds of air from the surface before going under.
I am sure you have something precious in your world which can key you into a harmonious vibration.
And George went on about losing his family member and losing this precious addition to his life.
It's hard to say more without giving away the precious kernels of the plot.
When made of precious stones, pyramids gain value as ornaments, and are valued as decorative pieces as well.
With the cadaver onboard, the train gets ready to leave and we scramble for our precious third-class seats.
These technologies also allow a wide readership of certain precious manuscripts.
Other lemurs cross razor-like mountaintops to reach precious pools of water.
My baby woke us up every morning with the precious jingle from his silver rattle and I will always cherish that sound.
If your resources are precious, then you cannot afford for there to be anything in the program that the programmer does not understand.
It was composed of a precious pink sapphire of 20.35 carats, several sapphires, colourful diamonds and natural pearls.
Every inch of thirsty land was soaked by the precious rain, the crops were saved and so was people's livestock.
Worse, they're also tremendous space hogs, gobbling up dozens of precious square feet in useless aisle area.
The pen was necessary to safeguard the feeder and its precious contents from cows and wild hogs.
In a few days, the curls will unfurl and get rough, turning the precious karakul pelt into cheep sheepskin.
Due to insect infestation, only thirty-two out of the 120 precious kapok trees along Chungcheng Road are still alive.
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But he feels he may be whistling in the wind, with precious little hope of forcing a change in the short term.
However, they may be whistling in the wind, for they entrusted the precious volume to a tabloid journalist, of all people.
In a whirl of activity, the team boarded the aircraft with well over 500 pounds of precious lifesaving equipment.
To be able to take a stand like he did is rare and precious thing in politics.
Artistically, it is a rare and precious gem that demands careful examination.
Kids play cricket on the road, young men idle at the edges, women scrub small wads of wet clothes beside buckets of precious water.
And they do it at great personal risk and with a view to saving many a precious life.
But United pay his weekly wages so Keane is careful not to tread on the precious egos of anybody still at the club.
His life and work existed out of time, marrying innovation to an old-time American sensibility with a singular sense of humor like precious few.
It's incoherent, absurdly argued, poorly written and precious beyond words.
Jacinth is a crystal, bright, purple gemstone. It is called Gomed in Urdu. Pure jacinth contains a very uncommon, precious metal named Zirconium.
An entire manuscript of Urdu written in Roman is a precious treasure of the Lahore Museum.
Geologists know it as an area of mysterious abyssal hot spots where sediments may hold millions of dollars worth of precious metals.
Do you want to be safe in your own country or do you want to waste precious lives and resources on military adventurism?
Very often these precious children are carried into these death traps in carry cots or wheeled in, in prams.
Ancient amber, jade and other precious stones are lovingly re-created in polymer clay, as well as newer, space-age materials, such as niobium.
Another often used precious stone was jade, which because of its color often represented the corn plant in the Mayan culture.
The old rugby adage was proven correct against the Boks as the Scottish pack gave their opponents no quarter and precious little ball.
The pressure told on both sets of players as the game got bogged down in a midfield melee with precious little invention from the teams.
I sorted and filed, and many of the precious accumulations of the last ten years went into black plastic bags that then went on to the tip.
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Many precious waterholes, lagoons, creeks, and rivers were named after them.
However, there's no point wasting precious time and effort on petty jealousy.
If you've never fetched water, known how heavy the jerrycans can be, how each drop is precious, you can't really enjoy a bubble-bath.
The movie's so precious, so obviously delighted by its paint-by-numbers quirkiness, it's actually embarrassing to watch.
Statues may contain healing herbs, sacred objects, precious stones or jewels, or other offerings.
There was a separate stall for jewels embellished with precious stones like pearls, ruby and emerald.
The fecund decorations are transplanted in the exquisitely designed gold-plated jewels embellished with precious stones.
On the cradle by the window slept their precious jewel, their baby daughter.
To him, she was a precious jewel among thousands of massive and useless rocks.
St. Pio is certainly one of the most precious jewels of the Capuchin Order.
Surprisingly, Mr Marchant said it was not uncommon for jewellers to transport precious stones in this seemingly casual way.
Into this walks Frederic Montague, a jeweller and purveyor of precious stones who is invited to stay.
At the entrance stand the king, his wife, sons and courtiers weighing a young prince in a balance against gems and precious metals.
But beyond the jiggle, I don't see much else at work here that's worthy of note, or your precious nickel.
This marvellous creation is worked in precious two-tone variegated lace, and is accompanied by a tanga panty and a push-up bra with latticed straps.
Worst of all, if you accidentally reversed the A and B battery connectors, you could fry your radio's precious tubes.
The conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us.
He used precious time when he could have been resting to brainstorm with Fasanella about ways to make future raids more effective.
And in the meantime, Chuck is going bananas, his tail wagging like a crazed propeller, his face the most precious combination of anticipation and curiosity.
Flippant to a frustrating degree, he give away precious little about the forces that drove him to become one of Ireland's most successful and wealthiest businessmen.
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She wasn't about to waste anymore of her precious resting time.
What you have is a situation where the larger webcasters have what they want, and don't want us small guys to rock the boat and endanger their precious settlement.
The mayor jokingly suggests traditional activities that take place in darkened movie theaters to help the audience preserve their precious body heat.
And precious bandwidth is being eaten up by this worthless junk.
For some parents no consolation prize is great enough to trade precious time with their families.
For a few short weeks, precious white truffles from Italy are being air-freighted in and dropped into the hands of talented chefs across the city.
Jean had been carrying the cash and the precious keepsakes in her handbag because she had been burgled and did not think it safe to leave them in the house.
Today, small is beautiful, because, with a little forethought in planning, our unique and precious remaining wilderness habitats can absorb and readjust to these.
The precious cargo of two dozen gutta-perch balls, three woods, three irons and a putter arrived at the doorstep of John Reid's new home in Yonkers not a day too soon.
The precious limited-edition buckwheat tastes like an afternoon in an old library, all gingerbread, port, currants, leather, tobacco, and woodsmoke.
He fashioned BOB, the demon spirit who lived in the Black Lodge, but such an explanation satisfied precious few of us.
I work my fingers to the bone, and get precious little gratitude for it, and all you can do is treat me like some glorified gofer who's wet behind the ears?
Before preservationists could put a stop to it, he and other looters had raided and destroyed precious relics buried at the site.
The Metalor Medical Division produces components based on wires and fine tubes from specialty stainless steels, unique alloys, and precious metals.
Most traffic calming measures are necessary and need applauding, not lambasting by people more concerned about their precious cars than the important issues.
Agates were apparently highly valued by the ancient Egyptians for their lapidary use and were mounted into gold with other precious stones such as lapis and emeralds.
Do not let your precious lapis be broken into stone for the stoneworker.
Every morning Frederico takes the dried leaves of the precious guayusa tree and steeps them in a large dark pot.
And then let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad.
Although pearls, of varying colours, are the main material Tuck uses, she also includes quartzes and some precious stones such as garnet and amethyst.
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I shivered a little, and dryly advised him to remember better where he had stored the precious liquid.
Being there teaches you to think quickly, edit yourself, and not get too precious about your own work.
Crafted from porcelain, lead crystal and other fine or precious materials in England, each egg is signed by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
He said we should never think we are unknown to Jesus, as if we were just a number in an anonymous crowd, but that each one of us is precious to him.
The foreman was a fireworks expert and is one of three who have since passed away, taking precious information with him.
The traditional kundan work has also been embellished with semi-precious and precious stones and beads such as tourmalines, tanzanites, opals, aquamarine and peridots.
The company did some one-off orders for a client who wanted some of his speakers covered in faux lizard skin and others inlayed with precious Dutch wood.
Or how leaf-cutter ants cultivate a specific type of fungus so precious it is carried by the queen when she starts a new colony.
The ruthless logging of these magnificent trees is leading to the destruction of precious forests that are critical to the survival of wildlife such as the jaguar.
One of the precious and underappreciated jewels of America has always been its geographical diversity.
But precious little has been said about this reckless cadre of gonzo docu-journos.
An almost too perfect example of this anti-visual romance plot is that the first affectionate encounter between Lucy and Paul occurs when she breaks his precious lunettes.
I followed her recipe to a T so I won't re-print it, but I didn't have the heart to cut out hearts since that would waste so much precious cookie.
The exhibition displays exquisite pieces made by fusing and blowing with top quality glass powders, precious metals, lustre and leafs from different countries.
In their haste the government wranglers also damaged precious water resources Bundy had worked years to develop.
Since its introduction in the 1800s as a soil stabilizer and ornamental, tamarisk has gone on to infest 1.6 million acres of the West's precious riparian areas.
The aerial survey begins next month, using a magnetometer to scan the ground for increased magnetic activity, which could signal the presence of the precious stones.
But there has been precious little vetting in places like Cedar Rapids and Sioux City this time around.
More than one-quarter of Americans are stealing those precious hours from their slumber, and are paying a steep price for it.
They waste their precious time thinking of Kamma without making an effort.
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There are times and places where blending in can save your skin, but day to day, why waste your precious time on the superficial when it doesn't make you happy?
I was meant to be savouring the last moments of my precious long weekend, but instead I find myself wishing that time would fast forward itself and just let me go to school.
Things haven't always been as happy for Mick, he has known his share of dark days but experience has taught him that life is precious and to be enjoyed.
And she kept on pushing me away from my desk, away from my precious manga.
She tempts him to drink and he loses his precious manuscript.
So, when the Scot arrived at Heathrow baggage reclaim following a tour of the Far East, he was understandably anxious to find his precious piece of wood.
The background is an intricately marbleized cascade of diaphanous, sea-foam-green skeins over cerulean blue, a surface more precious and less labored than usual.
Canals draw water from far inside the mountains to guide them towards the fields which have been terraced to facilitate the work of the precious liquid.
How we ever scraped the money together to buy gobstoppers and comics after all this outlay of our precious resources was down to odd jobs and paper rounds.
A person could spend precious minutes looking for a Shard that would unleash ball lightning while another person would use a different Shard to kill the befuddled one.
This precious substance was carefully picked off the plant and dropped into a bicycle repair tin with a lid or into a Marmite jar with a screw top.
Most definitely a precious metal, silver is sizzlingly hot, as both a material and a colour.
There is only the slightest hint that precious metals might be found in the hinterlands.
Along with gems and other precious metals, the DRC has a rich supply of gold, cassiterite, wolframite, and coltan.
I'VE been removing wodges of wet leaves on top of precious spring contributors.
In early spring, it takes time and scrutiny to decipher the newly emerging weedlings from my precious, rising seedlings.
Life was neither fair nor unfair, neither cruel nor uncruel. Rather it was a tangible, real thing, precious, and not easily affordable.
It is like precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard.
She gave Coventry a number of works in precious metal by the famous goldsmith Mannig and bequeathed a necklace valued at 100 marks of silver.
This behaviour appears at first to be an evolutionary paradox, since helping others costs precious resources and decreases one's own fitness.
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Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches.
There are precious few large-scale, ambitious, original works.
Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
Manufacturer of precious metal contacts Samuel Taylor Ltd has manufacturing plants within the town.
The province was a leading producer of grains, salt, pearls, fruits, liquors and wines, precious metals and ornaments.
After getting back to Geneva, Victor's father, weakened by age and by the death of his precious Elizabeth, dies a few days later.
Sintering of powders containing precious metals such as silver and gold is used to make small jewelry items.
Later one side of the barter started to involve precious metals, which gained symbolic as well as practical importance.
The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man.
The influx of these precious metals and the resulting money supply shocks help explain the price increase in Spain during the sixteenth century.
Once this demand reaches a certain level, the stage becomes set for a spontaneous remonetization of the precious metals.
When precious metals entered Spain, this influx drove up the Spanish price level and caused a balance of payments deficit.
The shortage of precious metals during the late 15th and early 16th centuries eased in the second half of the 16th century.
Cobalt blue was considered as a precious commodity, with a value about twice that of gold.
Mail has applications in sculpture and jewellery, especially when made out of precious metals or colourful anodized metals.
Now, finally, Americans are appreciating that when multinationals call the shots, many of the things we hold precious are in jeopardy.
When I showed my bubbe, she said I had found a memory of the snake, and that memories were precious.
European traders therefore had to pay for spices with the precious metals, which were in short supply in Europe, except for Spain and Portugal.
Historically, this was often a promise to exchange the money for precious metals in some fixed amount.
In April 1528, he reached northern Peru and found the natives rich with precious metals.
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El Dorado is applied to a legendary story in which precious stones were found in fabulous abundance along with gold coins.
His expedition had collected a good quantity of the precious metal but was running low on food and supplies.
Paleontologists have found precious few phasmid fossils, and they had never previously unearthed one of a leaf insect.
Ghana is an average natural resource enriched country possessing industrial minerals, hydrocarbons and precious metals.
Gold bullion and silver bullion are the most important forms of physical precious metals investments.
Bullion coins describe contemporary precious metal coins minted by official agencies for investment purposes.
Addressing the ceremony, Faruqui said that the legendry artists and writers are our precious assets.
This rich heritage also serves the Church as a precious means of catechises and evangelization.
The value of bullion is typically determined by the value of its precious metals content, which is defined by its purity and mass.
Bullion is gold, silver, or other precious metals in the form of coins, ingots, or bars.
The Andaman Sea is a precious natural resource as it hosts the most popular and luxurious resorts in Asia.
Franks traded timber, furs, swords and slaves in return for silks and other fabrics, spices, and precious metals from the Arabs.
The treasure fleet had a large number of warships to protect their precious cargo and to secure the maritime routes.
Various places in Africa and the Americas have been named after the imagined cities made of gold, rivers of gold and precious stones.
Also brought back from India were dyes like lac, indigo and dyewood and precious ornamental objects and materials like ivory, ebony and pearls.
A nearby Blockbuster theme park, opponents say, could further jeopardize the fragile ecosystem by draining away precious resources.
He told me how the wise toad who squats among the kingcups by the stream in summer has a very precious jewel in his head.
And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat.
Eventually the world's stock of precious metal was doubled or even tripled by silver from the Americas.
They all went into the house, and left me feeling a precious idiot. I had been barking up the wrong tree this time.
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During the 2nd century the Goths of southern Russia discovered a newfound taste for gold figurines and objects inlaid with precious stones.
A BEDTIME story from mum or dad is a precious moment, especially for a child in hospital far from home.
Nap smarter So how do you make the most of your precious nap-time minutes?
Rutilated quartz, moonstone, spinel, agate, amber and onyx are subtle choices when set into a blackened precious metal setting.
The negotiations exasperated the Roman soldiers who seemed to hold the stronger position, but they gained precious time for Fritigern.
And readers can bet precious good care was taken that its august bodyship did not suffer.
Theoderic's payoff included precious metal from stripping the remaining public ornaments of Italy, and an unsupervised campaign in Hispania.
Frederick fought defensive actions trying to blunt the invaders, losing thousands of men and precious resources in the process.
He's precious,'' sighed Price, just hours before her wedding to Bisk on Saturday afternoon at the nursing home.
The cargo may pose an environmental hazard or may include expensive materials such as machinery or precious metals.
The vents create sulfide deposits, which contain precious metals such as silver, gold, copper, manganese, cobalt, and zinc.
The Zhoukoudian cave system near Beijing has been excavated since the 1930s and has yielded precious data on early human behavior in East Asia.
The Pipil had no precious mineral resources, but they did have rich and fertile land that was good for farming.
British losses totalled 6 percent of their total losses during the French campaign, including 60 precious fighter pilots.
With leatherback populations declining more quickly than any other large animal in modern history, each turtle is precious.
Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash.
I was 19, and here was a woman singing 'Cover me, spread your precious love all over me.
The rapid influx of precious metals from the new mines had an inflationary effect on the specie based economy.
The following are commemorative issues and are seldom encountered in normal circulation due to their precious metal content.
Marcasites were used in settings along with coloured glass cut with a facet like precious stones.
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Theoderic's payoff included precious metal from stripping the remaining public ornaments of Italia, and an unsupervised campaign in Hispania.
As a precious metal, gold has been used for coinage, jewelry, and other arts throughout recorded history.
They were able to be together for only a few precious hours.
The business of subduing barbarian warbands also demanded substantial gifts of precious metal.
Early long distance trade was limited almost exclusively to luxury goods like spices, textiles and precious metals.
We wanted to publicly say, thank you our precious Leila for bravingly saving your brothers life.
Entire horns were very precious in the Middle Ages and were often really the tusks of narwhals.
With the removal of precious metals from the monetary system, banknotes evolved into pure fiat money.
They were targeted not only because they stored books but also precious objects that were looted by invaders.
Today, most national currencies have no backing in precious metals or commodities and have value only by fiat.
The crown is encrusted with 22 gemstones, including garnets and amethysts, 20 precious stones and 68 Scottish freshwater pearls.
With MEEM, you'll never again have to worry about losing all your precious information and memories.
The Veda was the most precious gift for which the West had ever been indebted to the East.
Britannia had large deposits of precious metals, fertile soil and vast forests, which made it economically attractive to the Romans.
Notably, some definitions define any 'undeclared' trafficking of currency and precious metal as smuggling.
The Mongols destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate and Baghdad's House of Wisdom, which contained countless precious and historical documents.
The male gaze flies right past all my painstaking attempts to craft my precious individual style and makes a beeline for the bubbies.
This would help lower my anxiety and make certain that I would not mishold, or God forbid, drop the precious package.
Geologists such as Albert Ernest Kitson were called on to find new resources of precious minerals in the African colonies.
When designing precious objects, Holbein worked closely with craftsmen such as goldsmiths.
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In this role, he produced not only portraits and festive decorations but designs for jewellery, plate and other precious objects.
This was not just a downing of fierce rivals for the home side, it was three precious points to go towards their quest to stay in the top flight.
Taking off our cyberwear to confront another with naked eyeballs will be a precious personal appearance.
His new songs are focused and aphoristic, earnestly reflecting on life without getting too precious.
He stood up, wasting precious seconds and knocking his chair over as he continued to stare upward through the window at the Crown Vic.
They were reluctant to use the precious antivenom on an Indian deemed unlikely to survive and just as unlikely to afford the expensive treatment.
The judge thought that she died miserably, so he gave her precious Yin-yang fan to save Mr Pei in the human world.
From a lyrical standpoint, there are precious few that can catch Kendrick.
Musk and Lyquid, Golde, in a precious composition by weight, and made Losenges with fine Sugar and Amylum.
Then I grabbed him and pulled at his precious hair with one hand, while trying to yank off his jewellery with the other.
Hiram's fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a huge quantity of almug wood and precious stones.
Not surprisingly, therefore, amber was one of the high-value materials of the ancient world, traded over distances otherwise achieved only by lazulite or precious metals.
This month's issue features a look at the unique bioleaching process that cleans mine tailings while recovering the precious resources left behind.
It soon broke apart, killing several men and dumping the precious cargo, some of which was eventually collected, and used, by local Coast Miwok tribesmen.
The most prized cameos are those carved from hardstones such as sardonyx, onyx, malachite and agate along with rare specimens carved from precious and semi-precious stones.
In major new drama Case Sensitive, there are precious few laughs as he plays one half of a detective duo investigating the death of a mother and her daughter.
They did their best to protect their precious victories, found ways to qualify for a little federal funding, or went back to raffles and lamington drives.
Goldsmiths and jewellers, dealing with precious materials and often doubling as bankers, belonged to powerful guilds and had considerable status, often holding civic office.
It oversaw the mining of iron and precious metals from Iberia, and used its considerable naval power and mercenary armies to protect commercial interests.
The gem that put Tanzania on the world precious stone map was its namesake tanzanite, a blue zoisite found solely near the town of Arusha in northern Tanzania.

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