Valuable

Examples

• These good people were absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But there is a decided grouping of valuable metals, and these can then be readily separated by means of electricity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• His services, with rare exceptions, grow less valuable as he advances in age and nervous strain breaks him down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This would be very valuable if the iron could be separated from the sand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The smoke, gases, and ashes left in the path of a raging forest fire are no compensation to us for the valuable timber destroyed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I hate to dwell long on any subject, unless indeed it were the merits of these my most interesting and valuable memoirs! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It was an ideal friendship, incomparably valuable for Davy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Great numbers of his most sober and valuable subjects were driven abroad by his religious persecutions, taking arts and industries with them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The acquisition of valuable and extensive property, therefore, necessarily requires the establishment of civil government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The utilitarian principle is valuable as a corrective of error, and shows to us a side of ethics which is apt to be neglected. Plato. The Republic.
• Ah, to be sure; and a valuable one, 'a b'lieve. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Valuable metallic ores, such as those of gold, platinum, tin, copper and iron, often occur in the form of sand or mixed with that substance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• His brain told him that the chest contained something valuable, or the men would not have hidden it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• As boracic acid is but slightly soluble in water and other common solvents this combination with glycerine--which is also a useful agent in arresting the growth of germs--is peculiarly valuable. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This sea bottom, in localities near land, is abundantly sown with wrecks, old and new, and in many cases bearing permanently valuable cargoes, such as gold and coal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He had seen them shot and left to swell beside the road, nobody bothering to do more than strip them of their cartridges and their valuables. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Taking the valuables was only realistic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• So, all the valuables I have. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No valuables turned up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As to the valuables in Mr. Luker's possession, Mr. Luker himself must take the best measures for their safe custody. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Fortunately there were but few valuables to take away, as Justinian had always lived with great simplicity, and all his money was safe in London. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Everything Lord Craven had given me, whether in money or valuables, I had freely parted with for my support. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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