| Thus from the end of the fifteenth till the close of the seventeenth century every Italian city had its galaxy of famous women, popularly known as riraghe, in France as preciouses. |
| She had the Canadian custom of smothering me with dears and darlings and even preciouses, in every conversation, and she even extended the custom to my little friends. |
| Not seeing her preciouses, she rose to her feet, and went into the next room. |
| I'm glad my two preciouses didn't get a stepfather that cared so much for fleas, as he would have been brutal to them. |
| The knife that stripped away a boy's three preciouses took with it the ability to control the bladder, a problem that remained through adulthood. |
