Unlike most precious collections, design books are heavily used and often acquired in multiples.

Her most precious collection of relics was kept in the chapel.

He'd brought no written speech, no notes, just that precious collection of images, which played across the screen in tragic progression.

But, at least, he added to his precious collection, and laid the foundation of a great work on African entomology.

Not one stone in the precious collection had been lost.

"Blue Light" combined various tasteful elements in a precious but ingenious collection.

He was taking no chances with that precious collection of scraps.

He bought a precious collection of books by John Gould, but financial reasons forced him to sell these volumes after the war.

If you are to get the best from our book, you must keep buying other people's books also, and hoard them as a precious collection.

The preservation of these precious collections necessitated the construction of its own building.