"Which would Mademoiselle choose if she had her will?" asked Esther, wo always sat near to watch over and lock up the
valuables.
This seemed to Tarzan a splendid plan for safeguarding
valuables. Since Werper had evinced a desire to possess his glittering pebbles, Tarzan, with the suspicions of a savage, had guarded the baubles, of whose worth he was entirely ignorant, as zealously as though they spelled life or death to him.
The count had
valuable Gobelin tapestries and Persian carpets in the house.
If these remarks have any foundation, that state of things which will best enable us to improve and extend so
valuable a resource must be best adapted to our political welfare.
Such a
valuable quality made Mazarin think of replacing Joubert, his intendant, who had recently died, by M.
So the Carter helped himself to so many of the most
valuable goods that the horses easily ran away with the remainder.
"Here," resumed Harriet, turning to her box again, "here is something still more
valuable, I mean that has been more
valuable, because this is what did really once belong to him, which the courtplaister never did."
The most
valuable feature of the lecture was the disclosure of the methods of the Hindu jugglers in their famous performances, familiar in the mouths of travelers.
(sold for less) is especially
valuable for its illustrations.
Thus property is as an instrument to living; an estate is a multitude of instruments; so a slave is an animated instrument, but every one that can minister of himself is more
valuable than any other instrument; for if every instrument, at command, or from a preconception of its master's will, could accomplish its work (as the story goes of the statues of Daedalus; or what the poet tells us of the tripods of Vulcan, "that they moved of their own accord into the assembly of the gods "), the shuttle would then weave, and the lyre play of itself; nor would the architect want servants, or the [1254a] master slaves.
It is only a few of the scions of our noblest and wealthiest houses, who are able to give the time and money necessary for the thorough prosecution of this noble and
valuable Art.
Bennet.'-- My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the
valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her Ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.