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treasuring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treasure \Treas"ure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Treasured; p. pr. & vb. n. Treasuring.] To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of treasure English)
Usage examples of "treasuring".
His breath quickened and he kissed her—gentle, treasuring kisses on her lips, her throat, her eyes—and his hips moved in counterpoint to the rhythm of her hand, slowly at first, becoming insistent, convulsive, until he was prodding against her thigh and she had to take her hand away and let him slip between her legs, opening her.
So -- if we can't find reasons and methods for treasuring human beings because they are _human beings_, then we might as well, as has so often been suggested, rub them out.
He wanted to crush her mouth with his, but he gentled his kiss, treasuring rather than taking.
And he wanted it to be something she wore, so he could imagine her wearing it every day, touching it, treasuring it.
Even her lips had a winglike lift to each corner: a sort of tiny tuck, which made her appear always to be treasuring a secret smile.
Maybe it was only the look which both the girls ordinarily wore: that of treasuring a secret smile.
Every time she left the Sacred Grove now she said goodbye as if it were the last time, treasuring every extra moment she shared with him, for she never knew when she would - if she would - be able to go back.
But even a second generation now may find nothing worth treasuring in our story.
We preserve what small remnants of human civilization we can by treasuring our knowledge and striving to enlarge our learning.
When they saw the worthy botanist coming back heavy laden with his specimens, and treasuring them up as carefully as a miser would his hoard, they used to make merry among themselves at his expense, regarding him as some whimsical kind of madman.