Word: preciously
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...Marie Rose has been presented by the Queen with a handsome bracelet set with precious stones and a magnificently bound copy of the late prince consort's musical compositions, in recognition of the satisfaction afforded by her singing recently at Osborne...
...olive-brown, bronze, protean-hued, aesthetic plush costume of the lady violin soloist at the symphony concert Wednesday evening, was exquisitely precious...
...divine Oscar will soon be wafted to Boston, and then we shall see whether the cultured and literary inhabitants of "Modern Athens" burn and are utterly consumed with the fire of precious and supreme transcendentally, or in cold and unappreciative apathy turn their backs upon the king of aesthetes and abhorrer of the common place. Bostonians surely appreciate the beautiful, but will they place in their shrines the chaste sun-flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform...
Genevieve Ward says of his precious loveliness, now starring the country: "I've known him since he was a boy, and Oscar was very nice until he got this absurd aesthetic notion in his head. He began by wearing yellow cravats; sometimes he and Mrs. Langtry, who is really very beautiful, would come to see me play, and she generally carried a lily or two in her hand...
THERE is no need that I should dwell upon the aggravations of this strange providence, or call attention to the proportions of this great sorrow. Rather let me gather up that which remains to us and for our comfort: the precious memories of Arthur's earthly life the hopes and expectations respecting his immortal life that we are permitted to cherish...