Sentence examples for precious wealth from inspiring English sources

The drop was a blow to his vast ego and precious wealth.

While the economy is booming, precious little wealth trickles down to the poor.

And, trust me, I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth.

The hoard very likely represents only a portion of the precious-metal wealth of the person, or people, who owned it; many common types of jewellery are missing, as are large tableware items such as those found in the Mildenhall Treasure.

All that gold and other precious stuff suggest wealth that is sacrificially tied up in supernatural escrow.

Nicholls reveals in the novel's very first paragraph that the siblings are successful in finding the jewellery, and so really the search is for something more precious than materialistic wealth.

Despite this, it contained a wealth of precious goods indicating the Xiongnu's diplomatic reach: a Chinese chariot, Roman glassware and plenty of precious metals.

But precious little of the wealth has trickled down to these families.

It often is stated that Spanish interests centred around God and gold the Christianizing of the Indians and quick wealth from precious metals but this is an overstatement.

Its Romanesque church has accumulated a wealth of precious artifacts, the most fantastic being a ninth-century jewel-encrusted gold figure holding the remains of the child martyr Ste.

These precious commodities created great wealth in the 18th century, and Ouro Prêto, the former administrative centre of Minas Gerais, became a city of great splendour, with numerous beautifully decorated churches.