Word: preciously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reason her letters have for many years been invaluable to historians. In a letter to the Duchess of Hanover she says: "You may be sure that I am very much annoyed with the King for treating me like a serving wench. That would have been all right for his precious Maintenon.* She was born for that sort of treatment but I was not." Most people found it dangerous to write of their Sovereign in such terms even in private letters, which were always liable to be opened by the notorious Louvois and their contents communicated to the King...
...Only the waning season can account for the descent upon the stage of a comedy like this. It represents the efforts of various groups to gain possession of a farm which contains a beauty clay and therefore becomes, for the purposes of farce, as precious as the Ruhr valley. The authoress, Katherine Browning Miller, manages to hammer out a witticism now and then by virtue of trying...
...seacaptain, a social parasite, a wealthy French merchant, a U. S. Vice President. That in the two latter cases, Stephen Jumel and Aaron Burr, she actually achieved matrimony, is eloquent testimony to her skill and resource. To be sure, it was during Burr's eclipse, when that precious knave was a doddering old gallant of 78, and his eyes were fixed as much on Betty's fortune as on her face...
...ashes of the Sovereign were mixed with those of his faithful valets. All that was recognizable was a finger, held by experts to belong to the Empress because it was that of a middle-aged woman and its nail had been carefully manicured. There was also-with calcined precious stones, the remains of burnt clothing, the buckle of the Tsarevitch's sword belt, military buttons, some portable icons, and other objects of piety- a shapeless little mass of human grease!" The Monarchists, headed by the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, however, declined to reveal the present resting place...
...gold was indicated on a galvanometer. The Professor's contrivance changed failure into success. In 1921, 100 bars of bullion were recovered; in 1922, 900 bars; in 1923, 11,050 bars. Operations this season were to make a clean job of it, and salvage was small. All the precious metal that went down with the Laurentic, except for a small amount of specie, has now been recovered...