149 collocations for prizes

We seem to live from day to day To hear the things you have to say; And just because God gave us you, We prize the little things you do.

So, could they have known the present and foreseen the future, even those who loved her best and most prized her love for them would have wished it to be.

For dearly must we prize thee; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of men; 10 And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child!

Barely a minute's breath is left me now, Which must be spent in charity by me, And, Simon, as you prize my dying words, I charge you with your brother live in peace And be my messenger, To bear my message to the unhappy boy, For certain his intent was short of my death.

It will not succeed unless we create an atmosphere of perfect freedom, unless we prize our opponents liberty as much as our own.

"I shall prize this gift very highly.

If mother's illness was a sore affliction, her recovery is a great blessing; and even the illness itself has its bright side, for we have joyed in showing her how much we prize her continued life.

And those others,in the sumptuous palace on the Canal Grande,would they prize the treasure which was the very light of his life, that he should break his heart to yield her up?

He indeed that prefers any faculty to reason, disclaims the privilege of being a man, and understands not the worth of his own nature; he that prizes any quality beyond virtue and goodness, renounces the title of a Christian, and knows not how to value the dignity of his profession.

During the remainder of her life her failure did indeed condemn her to a protraction of trial and agony such as no other woman has ever endured; but she always prized honor far above life, and it also opened to her an immortality of glory such as no other woman has ever achieved.

Mr. Alston prized this picture highly during his lifetime, but after his death it was sold and for many years was lost sight of.

He seemed to me quite isolated, lonely as the desert; yet never was man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one to match his mood.

The intelligent man, says Plato, will prize those studies which result in his soul getting soberness, righteousness, and wisdom, and he will less value the others.

I prize one memory of him which illustrates this point.

I am afraid I prize Christian fellowship too much, and that I am behaving in a miserly way about all divine gifts, shutting myself up here in this room, which often seems like the gate of heaven, and luxuriating in it, instead of going about preaching the glad tidings to other souls.

Or what can prize that thy most precious blood?

In reply to this I would say, that it must be a base spirit which does not prize "independence" for its own sake, whatever privation and suffering may attend it; and much more base must be that spirit, which can exchange that "independence" for a state of slavish subjectioneven though that state abound in all sensual gratifications.

If you mean, that they think them of less importance than the abolition of slavery in the slave states, you are right; and if you further mean, that they prize those objects more highly, and pursue them more zealously, because they think, that success in them will set in motion very powerful, if not indeed resistless influences against slavery in the slave states, you are right in this also.

It is from these reflections that I have been led to prize many a homely tree as possessing a high value, by exalting the impressions of beauty which we derive from other trees, and by relieving Nature of that monotony which would attend a scene of unexceptional beauty.

"You prize Truth more than life.

Is there not some little invalid who would greatly prize a book of dainty pictures, embroidered, drawn, and painted by her child-friends?

You shall find him prizing the richest jewels and fairest horses, when his purse yields not money enough for earnest.

But even while Monsieur de Talleyrand spoke, Mr. Morris, bending toward her, addressed some remark to her and in an instant she was all animation and charm, exerting for his benefit every fascination of which she was mistress, and showing him by glance and voice how greatly she prized his attentions.

I prize my Honour more than Life,

She also found great pleasure in accompanying her eldest sister to the Rev. Mr. Streeter's Friday evening meetings; and so highly did she prize these religious privileges, that she could scarcely submit to be deprived of them for a single evening or Sabbath without shedding tears.

149 collocations for  prizes