Hundreds of Essex residents queued from early today to have their family heirlooms identified and valued by a team of TV experts. |
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These precious ornaments are often passed down through the generations as family heirlooms. |
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The tokonoma is the place of honor in a Japanese style house used for displaying family heirlooms and seasonal flower arrangements. |
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His house had been burgled, windows smashed, doors broken and family heirlooms stolen. |
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Scores of people lost sentimental engagement rings and irreplaceable family heirlooms. |
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By selling off heirlooms and ingratiating themselves with prison staff and exiled aristocrats the twins eventually secure his release. |
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If a farmer or gardener starts using mass-marketed seeds, the abandoned heirlooms are likely to become extinct. |
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Like family heirlooms, libraries and research collections gain luster with age and use. |
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A red-faced dad accidentally threw away his wife's family heirlooms and found them after hours rummaging through a rubbish dump! |
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Playing an important role in the overall design are a few family heirlooms, including the glass-top coffee table, often a conversation piece. |
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Today these dazzlers, almost too beautiful to be worn, are prized family heirlooms. |
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The walls had excellently crafted tapestries that must have been precious family heirlooms from the look of them. |
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Warwick's skills as a chimney maker were at a premium in the goldfields, and prized heirlooms were bartered for his services. |
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Some include journal entries or family heirlooms such as recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation. |
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They will happily cast their eye over any old family heirlooms, household treasures or car boot bargains. |
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She then walked over to her closet and pulled out a large, brown trunk full of heirlooms and dust. |
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The interior contains a remarkable collection of family heirlooms and works of art. |
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If you look after your tools, they'll look after you and maybe some day, you can pass them down to the next generation of enthusiastic gardeners like family heirlooms. |
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She was nestled in a wing chair under a lap robe, surrounded by her heirlooms. |
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Christening gowns are family heirlooms, carefully preserved from one baptism to the next and even handed down from generation to generation. |
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In Australia's south-east, Aboriginal people used possum-skin to make cloaks and clan heirlooms. |
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You'll need 4 pounds of ripe heirlooms, peeled and cut in wedges, then roughly chunked. |
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I have been forced to sell family heirlooms like our vintage cars. |
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Archival records such as these family heirlooms, handed down from one generation to another, stand as evidence of a rich past that has impact for everyone. |
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She looked around the room slowly, her eyes taking in everything from the expensive paintings and family heirlooms dotted around the room, to the Oriental rug. |
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Although not hugely valuable, they were both treasured family heirlooms. |
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There are others who have suggested he sell off the valuable collection of art and other family heirlooms, but he doubts they would raise the required amount. |
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Stroll in the beautiful gardens, dine on local dishes in the restaurant and inspect family heirlooms in the homely honesty bar. |
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Mr. Speaker, the government was caught hocking rare heirlooms on a website that usually sells broken desks. |
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They have been denied compensation for the loss and value of their property, many of which are family heirlooms. |
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The plough and the cattle that he uses are heirlooms left to him by his parents. |
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Our parents did not bestow upon us treasured heirlooms at our holy union, as they did at our wedding. |
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In addition, citizens are entitled to possess weapons that are family heirlooms or are used in hunting or for sporting purposes. |
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Pictures and family heirlooms are the objects most frequently cited, since these are the family's physical link to its past. |
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Violins or fiddles are treasured heirlooms in rural Quebec's Irish families. |
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In the tourist shops of Toraja heirlooms fetch high prices as objets d' art, and land too is sometimes sold for government projects or tourist developments. |
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Alongside Turkish antiquities dealers there are those looking to sell family heirlooms. |
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The group that had been holding service behind the nursing home got the buildings and some church funds, while the ultraconservatives got some cash and church heirlooms. |
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The situation hasn't quite reached the stage where pre-bookings are handed down through the generations like family heirlooms, but getting a pitch at peak times is difficult. |
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Many Canadians will be able to personally relate to the Christmas ornament series as they represent holiday traditions and those shiny, bright coloured heirlooms that get passed down from generation to generation. |
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The villa is circumscribed by a luxurious romantic park, which was designed by the composer, while the interiors feature a variety of heirlooms of great value. |
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Kris are used for display, as talismans with magical powers, weapons, sanctified heirlooms, auxiliary equipment for court soldiers, accessories for ceremonial dress, an indicator of social status, a symbol of heroism, etc. |
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When Cousin Mathilda offered the writer something from a group of family heirlooms, he asked for a certain lowboy, though he was not especially anxious to have it. |
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There are also family heirlooms including a wooden fire screen belonging to Nicky's great grandmother, which is more than 100 years old. |
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As was the case with silver, when prices rise above certain levels, despite the potential for further price increases, temptation results in even heirlooms being brought in for melting. |
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For those who are veterans, those who have heirlooms and relics, handguns which would otherwise be prohibited and only sold to those who have similar firearms, they can pass them along to members of their family. |
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You can give your home a makeover with a limited amount of effort, without spending a small fortune and without needing to chuck out your family heirlooms. |
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Down through the ages, people all over the world have enjoyed stitching embroidery designs to personalise and embellish clothing, table linens sand special heirlooms. |
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The house and lawn displayed favorite family heirlooms, including an antique dress form displaying the wedding dress worn by the bride's mother. |
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It was impossible to estimate how much the thieves had got away with and the stolen goods would include family heirlooms and personal jewellery as well as stock from gem, diamond and pearl dealers, he said. |
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They will have allowed their heirlooms to be sent to the dump. |
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The use of such heirlooms suggests that it is hard to find new weapons. |
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He accused his opponent of wanting to privatise such national heirlooms as Petrobras, the oil company, three big state banks and an electricity giant. |
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My last trip to the market barely yielded enough unmealy heirlooms for a couple of salads. |
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We have provided for relics and heirlooms to be passed down from generation to generation and kept in families for their sentimental or historical value. |
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The majority of heirloom tomatoes are indeterminate, although some determinate heirlooms exist. |
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The hon. member mentioned the question of veterans and their heirlooms. |
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The Convenient Marriage has everything you'd expect from a Regency romance – swooning females being revived with hartshorn, highwaymen, lost heirlooms, dancing, card parties, and a lazily amused hero. |
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Among the Iban, textiles were customarily passed down as family heirlooms. |
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