41 examples of treasure-troves in sentences

"Here's the point: this is treasure-trove; we got here first.

Our treasure-trove had excited him greatly, and already he had begun with glistening eyes to reckon up how much it might be worth to each of us when the shares of the salvage came to be divided.

[Fr.], piece of good fortune [Fr.]; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure-trove. good fortune &c (prosperity) 734; happiness &c 827.

"It does certainly; I am really the appointed heir of the old Mexican, but anyway treasure-trove goes to the finder who can establish a right to it.

For two years, we are told, after this finding of treasure-trove, success attended him in playmacao, the very pith of hazard, was the chief game at Watier'sand he attributed it all to the sixpence.

In the sense of selecting from among a number of embryonic themes stored in his mind, the playwright has often to make a deliberate choice; but when, moved by a purely abstract impulse, he goes out of set purpose to look for a theme, it may be doubted whether he is likely to return with any very valuable treasure-trove.

Rights of Treasure-trove, Sporting, Safe-Conducts, Ransom, Disinheritance, &c.Immunity of the Feudalists.

" This, our only article of plate, was a battered piece of treasure-trove salved from the ruins of a derelict village.

Does this provide a key with which to unlock the hidden intentions of our strange treasure-trove of miscellaneous allusions?

Soon upon this island's shrine Shalt thou like a jewel shine, Dearest of its treasure-trove, Emblem of a deathless love From its sepulchre set free, "Conjugi Carissimae." THE PAGAN PAST What sylvan god was worshipped here?

Afterward, when sailors mutinied and abandoned their ships or killed their officers to be able to remain in Tahiti and its sister islands, there grew up in England a literature of wanderers, runagates, and beach-combers, of darkish women who knew no reserve or modesty, of treasure-trove, of wrecks and desperate deeds, piracy and blackbirding, which made flame the imagination of the youth of seventy years ago.

TREASURE-TROVE.

They were granted many extraordinary privileges, including the right of treasure-trove.

Treasure-trove.

Treasure-trove, by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe. Illus.

Treasure-trove.

Treasure-trove, by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe. Illus.

Old bookstands were always attractive centers of interest to Theodore, and, among other treasure-troves, he brought home one day a boy of fourteen years, whose office it had been to watch the books.

But what are the laws of Peru in regard to treasure-trove, or what may be the disposition of the government toward the native population and their rights, of course we cannot find out now.

This decision was based upon equity and upon the laws and usages regarding treasure-trove.

While Leclair and Rrisa stared with widening eyes, the Master, tense with joy, held up their treasure-trove.

" "I can tell you nothing about it, and I will not claim your treasure-trove.

By-the-by, what name shall we give our 'treasure-trove?'" "Miriam for the present, if you please.

Also I wish to record my passionate protest against stories of treasure-trove in which the treasure is not taken away in sacks and used to enrich the hunters; I am all against leaving it underground, for whatever charming and romantic reasons.

Indeed, the outside world, even when he appears to treat it most objectively, proves upon closer examination to be in the vast majority of cases only a treasure-trove of symbols for the expression of his inner self.

41 examples of  treasure-troves  in sentences