The term "precious fragments" was coined by Marigold Linton, a pioneer in the study of autobiographical memory research.

It struck the cedarwood floor and shattered into a hundred precious fragments.

The precious fragment is kept in the sacristy of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

Every precious fragment had been saved as a reminder.

The sacristy houses a precious 8th-century mosaic fragment brought here from the Old St. Peter's Basilica.

Afterwards, it all seemed another reality, a remote realm of incandescent truth from which he could recall only a few precious fragments.

He guessed that it had been used for hand-sorting precious fragments from sand and rubble during the first days of the dig.

After some negotiations, he obtained possession of this precious fragment.

Like artist Kurt Schwitters, Bartelme is fascinated by fragments once beautiful and precious.

But every writer in America seems to have had his own special angle on baseball and his own precious fragment of experience.