She eyed the notebook he held, weighing her chances of snatching back the precious volume.

He defaces, with a pen, the passages, in some precious volume, which do not meet his idea of moral propriety.

She gave the precious volume to Mandy almost indifferently.

He'd needed money, of course, and this had seemed a good way to get it without parting with his precious volumes.

Before bookcases were thought of, the precious volumes were stacked flat in lidded chests.

At his feet, sliielded from the wind by his boots, were Girard's three precious volumes.

It would bring him straight to my most precious volumes!

Turning to Hakim, Monak ordered the servant to place the precious volume under lock and key.

Throughout the war I carried this precious volume as my Bible in associating with people".

After that, Ghilardi kept his precious volume of forgotten lore under lock and key.