Then, only last night, under the most mysterious circumstances, my precious goods were stolen by a robber only Cugel claims to have seen.

A hideous stranger arrives in town, claiming to be a merchant from India selling precious goods.

Unfortunately, many of the papers that disappear are the valuable ones, and occasionally the vanishing act includes other precious goods, too.

"It's very important, you see, to make sure one's precious goods are saved," she said, her voice softly accented.

Until the beginning of the sixth century, these row graves are accompanied by more prestigious single graves including precious grave goods.

Just since last fall, at least seven salesmen in the city were attacked and stripped of their precious goods.

The trouble was, they had precious few goods of their own to exchange.

Sophisticated banking systems and trade made the exchange of rare and precious goods easier.

You are governed by shopkeepers, who value their precious goods more than any number of human lives!

She took her chair again, beneath the lamp facing him, the precious goods in her lap.