Such persons, knowing the benefit of a good name, being wont to possess a good repute, prizing their own credit as a considerable good, will never be prone to bereave others of the like by opprobrious speech.

Who will gain the mighty prize?

Prize-fighting.

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men; Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold: With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the Prize Of Wit or Arms; while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.

To talk of the bright eyes of Ladies judging the Prize of Wit is indeed with the Poets a legitimate species of humming: but would not, we may ask, the rain from these Ladies' bright eyes rather tend to dim their lustre?

But Ina could very well afford to wait five years for such a prize as Piers.

Or what can prize** that thy most precious blood?

] [** Prize, price.]

And yet from my very heart I agree with the Friends in prizing the spirit above the letter.

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

In China, they set great store by porcelain that has been often broken and mended again with silver wire, prizing it more highly than that which is sound and fresh from the hands of the potter.

If I am hindered from feeling the soul of poetry among woods and fields, I yet trust I am struggling for something worth prizing something of which I am not ashamed, and need not be.

Yet, prizing steadfast love and fealty, some The gulf of their deficiencies may span, And learn of you the virtues that become An English gentleman.

Finally came the striking, sorting and prizing in weather moist enough to make the leaves pliable.

In the packing or "prizing" a barefoot man inside the hogshead would lay the bundles in courses, tramping them cautiously but heavily.

Oftentimes a crop was not cured enough for prizing until the next crop had been planted.

He was not above prizing the admiration of this child for his mechanical genius.

But the best he can do is to "think that 'to buy' and 'to love' may be construed as developments of the same idea of prizing highly" which tells us nothing regarding altruism.

Prizing only a single object, and developing only a single side of their nature, their minds became narrow and their views contracted.

His Natural Magnanimity hindered him from prizing what he was certainly possessed of, and turned all his Thoughts upon something more valuable that be had in View.

Prizing in her servants, next to swift obedience, a knowledge of languages, her mistress did not make use of her when travelling abroad; but hitherto she had taken both servants with her.

"It is also recorded, as an instance of his prizing extraordinary merit, that when Gainsborough asked him but sixty guineas for his celebrated Girl and Pigs, yet being conscious in his own mind that it was worth more, he liberally paid him down one hundred guineas for the picture.

Recognising this, and prizing so rare a treasure, I gave myself up wholly to her.

There must be with it a high prizing even of that degree of grace which they want.

They take no shame for dark defeat While prizing yet each victory won, Who fight for the Right through all retreat, Nor pause until their work is done.