Prized

Examples

• He remained in London a year and a half, working in two of the leading printing establishments of the metropolis, where his skill and reliability were soon prized. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Hours, minutes and seconds began to be carefully prized, both by the trades and professions, and the demand from the common people for accurate time records became great. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This possession--its proudest and most prized--had for years been nominal only. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Other members of the party left similar memorials, which under the circumstances have come to be greatly prized. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• My little morsel of human affection, which I prized as if it were a solid pearl, must melt in my fingers and slip thence like a dissolving hailstone. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Pictures like that are much to be prized, for they fill to some extent the place of books, which are so rare and cost so much. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• What a pang it was to lose all that: to have had it and not prized it! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was, indeed, a highly prized letter. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I thought, but did not say, that I prized it like the blood in my veins. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Checker: Witt