Word: priceless
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...these three blocks were deeded by the State to Columbia University, as a source of income to support the institution. Authorities at the University grumbled. They would rather have had the privilege, often granted then to colleges, to conduct a lottery. But the years passed, the property became priceless ; and the authorities ceased to chunter, grinned instead...
...most of the temples and monasteries in the vincinity. I spent a great deal of time in the monastery of Horyuji. This is the oldest standing wooden building in the world. It was built in the Seventh century, and is a veritable treasure house for the most interesting and priceless of relics...
...Meadow Brook and Radnor, at Warrenton and Millbrook, at Onwentsia and Milwaukee, the riders trot through the dark mists of dawn to gather, as light breaks, at a country gate or a cross roads between fields fenced with wood. Kids on stumpy ponies and millionaires slithering upon their priceless hunters, will go over the hedges, fall, or be in at the death and then jog back to breakfast, late in the autumn mornings...
...cherry trees. The interior of these houses, one of which presents the aspect of an old cathedral in Southern Spain, and the other three-guest houses*-are furnished and finished to harmonize with the exterior of these beautiful buildings. Old doors and door frames, mantels, beds, tables, cabinets, priceless wood carvings, paintings, tapestries from famous places in Italy, Spain and France of the 13th and 16th centuries are a part of the finish and furniture...
...killing two polo ponies: Gay Boy, used in the International Cup Play last autumn by Malcolm Stevenson, and Anaconda, also prized. Said William Averell Harriman, financier, owner of the two ponies: "They were two of the best polo ponies in the world. I raised them from colts. They were priceless...