Word: preciously
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...what is so pitiable as a loving heart, spurned, despised, by the object of its love! What so cruel as the youth, favored by fate, who will crush beneath his feet this precious gift of love! Will not the despised one's tears rouse against him an avenging spirit...
...this man, whoever he was, went up to rescue it. The whole building was in flames, and while he was looking for the child the staircases burned entirely through and fell, so that there was no means of descent. It seemed as if the brave fireman and his precious burden must perish in the flames, but in a moment he appeared at a window and called out lustily to the pipemen below, "Put on that three-inch pipe;" and when they had done it, he cried, "Now throw me the strongest stream you can, right in this window...
...your precious self I marry...
...means troubled by the delay. Perhaps this unjust treatment might be endurable but for the fact that many of his men make their course in regard to second-year honors dependent, in great measure, upon the results of his examination. To them, every moment is precious, since the time that remains for their special work in classics is short. We sincerely hope that the instructor in question will take this view of the case into consideration...
Until the precious peeler spoke...