Jorge had been the careful one, wary of burglars, stashing away small valuables whenever he left the house.
I put them in the Blue Reception Room, and told the servants to keep watch so no small valuables accidentally fall into their pockets.
"People have been stealing from rooms forever," he said, but in the past, what was taken was mostly electronic gear or other small valuables, not uniforms.
Occasionally he supplemented his income by selling clothing or small valuables belonging to his victims.
At a glance he'd seen at least two rooms had been looted of small valuables.
With an eye to small valuables, she turned--only to discover the large shape of a man looming between her and the hallway.
He watched as the sergeant added the sword to the pile of silver and other small valuables that was growing beside the kitchen door.
As they work, they lift shoppers' wallets and other small valuables from their cars.
There is a closet without a door, and a small safe for storing valuables is built into a wall.
I have it in the lockboxes with the small valuables.