Sentence examples for precious flesh from inspiring English sources

The first competition, in 2011, yielded co-winners, both from U.C.L. — including one imagining a husband's response to a wife's mastectomy ("it will be an honour / to bathe the scars . . . your precious flesh / calls the bluff on gold / and silver —  / makes me a king").

As wafer and wine transcendentally turn into Jesus' literal body and blood, perhaps some gold-leafed pappardelle would become actual noodle-shaped shreds of Beyoncé's precious flesh and imbue her love with Jay-Z into our hearts and bodies. .

To some of the first Europeans, the Aztecs described maize as "precious, our flesh, our bones".

Throughout the course of my life, whenever I wanted a strawberry, I would slice down on the leafy end with a sharp blade, hoping to sever as little of the precious berry flesh as possible while still getting rid of the terrible-on-your-tongue leaves that plague the strawberry eating process.

They are made of precious materials; their flesh is gold, their bones are silver, and their hair is lapis lazuli.

Your money is more precious to you than your own flesh and blood.

Did she think her belotioned flesh too private and precious to be touched by the likes of him?

In mid-January, for the first time in decades, I managed to visit, in the flesh, for just one precious afternoon, a first cousin on my paternal side.

"Every frame was precious".

When the water receded, they stripped fat from flesh, boiling it to extract precious lamp and cooking oil.

Ask a new mother what she is feeling as she cradles her newborn baby -- a precious gift from beyond this world of flesh and bone.