of great price
of great price
Of high value. This museum is home to treasures of great price, many of which we are going to see on our tour today.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
References in classic literature
?
One day we were followed by the boats of a whaler, who, no doubt, took us for some enormous whale of great price; but Captain Nemo did not wish the worthy fellows to lose their time and trouble, so ended the chase by plunging under the water.
It was massive, well made, and solid, like a chest constructed to carry things of great price, but not one shred or crumb of metal or jewelry lay within it.
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price -- purchased with all she had -- her mother's only treasure!
Pictures and prints which even my unpractised eyes could recognize as being of great price and rarity hung thick upon the walls.
As for his red-nosed neighbour, the latter--since the information as to the identity of Rogojin--hung over him, seemed to be living on the honey of his words and in the breath of his nostrils, catching at every syllable as though it were a pearl of great price.
He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a verandah-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.
"Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobtsova 1891-1945" is her story of why this remarkable woman is canonized by the Orthodox church.
Augustine as he fights temptations of the flesh and as he strives to abandon what he had treasured before he found the pearl of great price.
Idioms browser
?
- ▲
- of age
- of all people
- of all people/places/things
- of all places
- of all the
- of all the cheek, nerve, stupid things to do, etc.!
- of all the nerve
- Of all the nerve!
- of all things
- Of all things!
- of all time
- of benefit
- of biblical proportions
- of choice
- of consequence
- of course
- of course not
- Of course, you know this means war!
- Of course, you realize this means war!
- of coz
- of easy virtue
- of few words
- of few words, man of
- of good cheer
- of great moment
- of great price
- of interest
- of its kind
- of late
- of little avail
- of little consequence
- of little/no account
- of little/no avail
- of mature years
- of moment
- of necessity
- of no account
- of no avail
- of no consequence
- of no effect
- of note
- of old
- of one mind
- of one's life
- of one's own accord
- of own accord
- of service
- of service (to someone or something)
- of service to someone, be
- of sorts
- of sound mind
- ▼
Full browser
?
- ▲
- of dreams
- of each person
- of each person
- of easy virtue
- of elements by the skeleton fixation
- of elements by the skeleton fixation
- of elements by the skeleton fixation
- of elements by the skeleton fixation
- of elements by the skeleton fixation
- of endodontic origin lesion
- of endodontic origin lesion
- of endodontic origin lesion
- of endodontic origin lesion
- of endodontic origin lesion
- of fame
- of fame
- of fame
- of few words
- of few words
- of few words
- of few words
- of few words
- of few words
- of few words, man of
- Of force
- Of Galilee Cana
- Of Galilee Cana
- Of God Clan
- of good cheer
- of great moment
- of great price
- of her choice
- of her dreams
- of her ilk
- of her own accord
- of her own free will
- of his choice
- of his dreams
- of his ilk
- of his life
- of his own accord
- of his own free will
- Of Iets Dergelijks
- of ilk
- of import
- of interest
- of interest to
- of it
- of its kind
- of Japan
- of Japan
- of Japan
- of Japan
- of late
- of late
- of late
- of late
- Of Lice & Men
- Of Lice & Men
- Of Lice & Men
- of life
- ▼