What is "valued"

Usage examples of "valued".

An appointment was made to see him again, for the anatomist valued knowledge above all other things.

An antimonial cup is included in the inventory of Samuel Seabury, who died 1680, and is valued at five shillings.

Formerly this herb was highly valued as an antiscorbutic, and was thought a most desirable pot herb.

Greek botanists, by whom it was valued as an excellent astringent and vulnerary.

While the secrecy afforded our valued clients remains paramount to the Swiss philosophy of banking, a decision has been made to voluntarily comply with the demands of our federal government, the wishes of our citizens, and the requests of the international authorities.

We had it specially made for you -a gesture to Mr Basset, one of our most valued clients.

This was yet one more tidbit of information that gave Brewster pause, for gold had always been valued throughout history and he could not think of a time when it had been considered essentially worthless.

Sir Gerard himself, know that he is a member of the British Horological Institute, where he is highly valued for his maths and his knowledge of clocks and clock making and is due to give a paper to the members later this month--an honour not conferred on many, I understand.

He was hoping that Marchand would find nothing wrong in the room which the old man valued as a sanctuary.

The picture of that monoplane skimming down the sky, with the nameless terrors flying as swiftly beneath it and cutting it off always from the earth while they gradually closed in upon their victim, is one upon which a man who valued his sanity would prefer not to dwell.

He offered to give me a deed in writing stating that, on the day of her marriage, he would give her all his furniture valued at about one thousand ducats, and the inheritance of a small estate, bringing one hundred ducats a year, which lie possesses here.

I had only resolved to have fired four or five guns at them with powder only, which I knew would frighten them sufficiently: but when they shot at us directly with all the fury they were capable of, and especially as they had killed my poor Friday, whom I so entirely loved and valued, and who, indeed, so well deserved it, I thought myself not only justifiable before God and man, but would have been very glad if I could have overset every canoe there, and drowned every one of them.

A few talked softly to Questioner, telling him how they valued his courage, his willingness to look beyond their own borders, and even to doubt when that doubting might lead to deeper understanding.

That same clarity, in which individual sentences may be elegantly structured, but are never so complex or quirkily fashioned as to call attention to themselves and so pull the reader from the story, is also highly valued in the world of adult SF.

In addition, Barvale had imported platinum valued at a quarter million, from Colombia, only to reship it to Europe at a small profit.