"precious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Tak-ing the precious vase off its lighted stand, he held it out to the stunned Bashkir.
- At the other end of the room, Korontzis could see the cabinet containing the precious vase.
- A rich and precious vase found near this cippus is believed to have contained Livilla's ashes.
- He took my head between his hands carefully, gently, like someone holding a precious vase.
- Feeling clumsy and awkward, fearful of knocking some precious vase to the floor, Achmed tried to imagine walking on a broken ankle.
- He placed a hand on her hip, and felt the curve of her waist like the shape of a precious ceramic vase.
- A charwoman knocked over the precious vase, breaking it into pieces - a few of them identifiable as bits of Mr. Gregory.
- Since he broke the Elder's precious vase, he was exiled from Harappa.
- He held her for several seconds after he spoke, then sat her down like a precious vase.
- One of them, close to the town, contained, along with other Scythian antiquities, the well-known precious vase representing the capture of wild horses.
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