Having a wishlist of precious objects is one thing; getting to see them quite another.

He would leave a message on Buchanan's machine at once, telling him his precious object had been returned.

Or, perhaps, you may have the precious object she wants in your collection?

"There's no difference in a precious object, either displayed at a museum or a store," he said.

Whether the point could have been made just as well without borrowing some of the more precious and fragile objects is another matter.

While American troops occupied the area in 1945, 12 of the most precious objects disappeared.

We are about to exchange a precious object for twenty million dollars.

The key was still in it, with my other precious objects.

"By putting them out on the Internet," she said, "they have gone from little precious objects to being available to every man once again."

You're not only our client, but one of the most precious objects we've ever been asked to guard.