There were the rare and fabulously valuable motes which could live within the human metabolism, acting as a symbiote and giving longevity, heightened awareness, enhanced sensory appreciation and increased endurance.
Fabulously valuable.
No one on the Edge had the expertise to actually duplicate them, which meant that those units which her side had bought were fabulously valuable: powerful totems dispensed from gods.
Nor does he recall noticing the ivory necklace that Aiah has by now carefully hidden, but if he had, he probably would have assumed the fabulously valuable thing was an imitation.
For sinnom was a kind of honey - dangerous, addictive, forbidden, and fabulously valuable.
It was a fabulously valuable wine-he remembered the consignment now-and the contents of that small crate must be worth thousands.
Only the fabulously valuable corporate farming land of the Central Valley had kept the metroplex and its southern rival, metastasizing around Los Angeles, from merging into a single uniform smear of dense urban growth.
If this were true, they were fabulously valuable and the prosperity of the human colony on Venus required that they be acquired-by peaceful means if possible, but acquired-for shipment back to Earth.
Any jewel expert will know at a glance that they are new, unique, and fabulously valuable.
And this 'Laughing Cavalier' and this 'Toledo' are twice as old and twice as fabulously valuable.