Word: precious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...looks. And even as David Rock carves his love-pledge on his powder horn in the first chapter, so does saintly Anne draw it forth from beneath her shawl in the last chapter, during a conversation between the two that is full of Cur-woodian epithets like "dear," "sweet," "precious," "hallowed." Perdita
...Stillwater, Minn. Foreseeing that in the coming years death would decimate their ranks, they founded the Last Man's Club. Each year they agreed to meet again on the anniversary of the battle. A bottle of wine was dedicated to the last man, who should open the precious bottle and drink a toast to his departed comrades...
they will lift the precious wine to drink a toast to their departed frends and a salute to their own Deaths...
Swift Indian runners, barefoot, blanketed, brought newborn babes for baptism. Toothless Mexican gaffers, perhaps pagans* all their lives, hobbled in frenzied haste to receive a precious sprinkling of holy water...
...publisher's stock has ever done so. It was deemed remarkable until one realized that the market over which Curtis Publishing gained its leadership, in which it was the highest priced for a day, was that of unlisted securities traded over brokers' counters. These are the precious shares whose owners esteem them too valuable for the dickerings of the stock exchange. Many a day not a share of such stocks is asked for, or offered...