precious (adv.)
precious (adj.)
- absolute
- admired
- adored
- affected
- arrant
- artful
- artificial
- beloved
- cherished
- chichi
- choice
- choosy
- classical
- complete
- consummate
- costly
- crass
- darling
- dear
- decided
- definitive
- downright
- effete
- egregious
- elaborate
- elaborated
- elegant
- esteemed
- euphemistic
- exact
- expensive
- exquisite
- fastidious
- favorite
- finicky
- flagrant
- formalistic
- fussy
- glaring
- golden
- goody-goody
- gross
- hallowed
- high-priced
- honey
- idolized
- inestimable
- intolerable
- invaluable
- irreplaceable
- la-di-da
- love
- loved
- lover
- mannered
- methodical
- meticulous
- mincing
- namby-pamby
- nice
- orderly
- ostentatious
- out-and-out
- outright
- overdone
- overnice
- overrefined
- particular
- pedantic
- perfect
- persnickety
- pet
- picky
- popular
- positive
- precise
- pretentious
- priceless
- pricey
- profound
- pronounced
- proper
- punctilious
- rank
- rare
- recherche
- regular
- revered
- rich
- scrupulous
- shattering
- shocking
- showy
- sophisticated
- squeamish
- stark
- studied
- superlative
- surpassing
- sweet
- sweetheart
- thorough
- thoroughgoing
- total
- treasured
- unbearable
- unconscionable
- undeniable
- unequivocal
- unmitigated
- unnatural
- unqualified
- unrelieved
- unspoiled
- utter
- valuable
- valued
- venerable
- white-haired
- worthy
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell: that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Nature is fine in love, and where 't is fine,
It sends some precious instance of itself
After the thing it loves.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Another tumble! That's his precious nose!
Virtue is like precious odours,—most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
It adds a precious seeing to the eye.
Would you damn your precious soul?
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it.
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,—
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
I cannot but remember such things were,
That were most precious to me.
He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
For truth is precious and divine,—
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
