Sentence examples for prized objects from inspiring English sources

He shows us one of their most prized objects: a Lewis and Clark map from 1810.

It will also provide new display cases to show a selection of artifacts, including rare books and manuscripts and prized objects from the Morgan's ancient and medieval holdings.

During the current auction, the government is also expected to exercise its right to buy prized objects at the price they have been sold to a bidder.

To a common reader, the world of book dealers revolves around a mystery: how can they bear to let their prized objects go?

One of the museum's most prized objects now lies just behind the atrium's glinting symbolic flag in a new gallery space: the original Star-Spangled Banner.

Elizabeth Hecht, the wife of the antiquities dealer – who over decades sold prized objects to some of the world's greatest museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art – said her 92-year-old husband was pleased with the outcome.

"Rocks" alludes to Chinese "scholars' rocks" — intricately eroded stones prized as objects of meditation.

Delft is also famous for its porcelain, originally made by craftsmen who were imitating prized Chinese objects imported by Dutch traders.

After all, artists tend to prize objects and materials for their aesthetic rather than their functional or utilitarian qualities.

Such women as can have healthy offspring become "high-prize objects – because to not have a fucking tumour on you is a fucking miracle.

Some of the most egregious thefts occur, Mrs. Booth observed, when a place is new and the owners are idealistic, wanting to use and show off their prize objects.