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Example sentences for "precious time"

  • It is an odious thief and prodigal of precious time.

  • What a deal of precious time is lost upon the world, by the lovers of it, which might have been improved to the getting of wisdom and grace, and making their calling and election sure!

  • What abundance of precious time is spent in unnecessary state of attendance, and provisions!

  • To pursue my studies with indefatigable industry, and ardent zeal, will be my set purpose, so that I may never have to mourn the loss of my precious time.

  • In the evening we had a precious time; the Indians were enraptured, and we all, as it were, with one heart, dedicated ourselves afresh to God.

  • Oh, may these awful considerations drive me closer to God, and incite to a more diligent improvement of my precious time, so that I may bear the mark of a real follower of Christ!

  • Oh, Lord, help me to improve my precious time, so as to overcome the assaults and escape the snares of the adversary!

  • O pardon my unprofitableness, and abuse of thy mercies, and my sluggish loss of precious time!

  • You will escape the loss of precious time, which idle persons are daily guilty of.

  • And the cost, the time (oh precious time!

  • Her "precious time" (which we children saucily abbreviated to "P.

  • Children and grandchildren might fill the house, might have everything it contained: she asked only for her "precious time.

  • The notice was short, but the people came punctually, and a precious time it was.

  • I believe it is a precious time of visitation to his soul; he is very amiable and affectionate, and acknowledges the evils and vanity of the world.

  • The reading meeting this evening has been a precious time.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boil them; brown steed; but also; cast down; certain number; considerable share; dear fellow; deputy prime minister appointed; given volume; himself should; meet him; precious blood; precious child; precious metal; precious metals; precious stone; precious stones; precious time; privileged class; reality itself; room for; said earnestly; small hill; third power; thirty minutes; when once