Every buyer dreams of obtaining a valuable object for far less than its true worth, just as each seller is determined to wring the most money out of every treasured item.
Not only the quantity of the remains, but also their well-preserved condition makes this species a particularly valuable object for paleontological research.
Who was the insurance company and does the kind of insurance Ms. Doda bought fall within the parameters of the type of umbrella policy that many people purchase for cars and other valuable objects in their houses?
When Congolese asked relatives in Europe for money, sometimes the relatives instead shipped over valuable objects that they had around the house — which might include a castoff violin or clarinet.
The Coolidge family donated many of the president's more valuable objects on display.
One lesson many establishments quickly learn is not to have valuable objects near a door.
She didn't want to go back for the stroller, but to buy a new one would confirm to her husband that she was unable to keep valuable objects in her possession.
Expansive but propulsive, the performance felt like a valuable object lesson for the promising young music students in the house: You can go big, it seemed to say, without bogging down.
Burglaries were common in the suburbs, and there were knowledgeable gangs who looked not for TV sets and computers but for paintings and other valuable objects.
Initially iron was probably used mainly for small and valuable objects such as razors, needles, and knives; later, as the smelting technique became more commonplace, iron came to be used for cutlasses, axes, and, eventually, hoes, which replaced the old wooden digging sticks.
He said one way to prevent the monks from misbehaving was for followers not to spoil them with valuable objects or vices.
